The Monster of Florence

Overview:

  • Title: The Monster of Florence
  • Author: Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi
  • Year: 2009
  • ISBN-10: 9780446581271
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Price: $14.99
  • Pages: xx+345
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: The Monster of Florence
  • Notes:
    • Listed because of Douglas Preston's contributions to speculative fiction.
    • First trade paperback edition per the numberline that is found on this book's copyright page.
    • States The Monster of Florence: A True Story on the book's front cover only.
    • Parts of this book first appeared in Dolci Colline de Sangue in Italy, and in Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker in America.
    • Contains twenty-nine black-and-white photographs printed on eight pages of slick paper that is inserted between pages 268 and 269 and the eight pages are not included in the official page count.
    • Index on pages 329-335.
    • "Afterward" is uncredited, but is copyrighted by both Preston and Spezi.
    • "Reading Group Guide" is an umbrella title for the next two short non-fiction pieces, it is unknown if these have appeared in the previous hardcover edition.
    • Cover photograph by R. Ian Lloyd/Masterfile.
    • Cover design: Flag.
    • Book design: Giorgetta Bell McRee.
    • {{LCCN|2008000771}}.
    • $16.99 in Canada.