The Magic Goes Away
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Overview:
- Title: The Magic Goes Away
- Author: Larry Niven
- Year: 1979
- ISBN-10: 0441515460
- Publisher: Ace Books
- Price: $2.25
- Pages: [6]+212+[6]
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Magic Goes Away
- Notes:
• "First mass market printing: October 1979" on copyright page.
• Second printing by number line 246809753.
• Third Printing identified the date of the second printing as November 1979.
• "Cover art by Boris" on copyright page
• Front cover art signed "Boris" in the bottom right corner. This is cropped on some copies
• The interior illustrations (79) are credited to Esteban Maroto on the copyright page and back cover.
• The illustration on page 1 is signed "Esteban Maroto"
• Page count determined manually... The last numbered page is 210, but the essay continues on what would have been pages 211 & 212. Then there is a bibliography/biography page, unnumbered, and followed by five more unnumbered pages of illustrations.
• Interior artwork is also present on some of the 6 unnumbered pages at the start of the book and the front and rear inside covers
• A rough page count of the text comes to around 115 pages