The Practice Effect
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Overview:
- Title: The Practice Effect
- Author: David Brin
- Year: 1984
- Publisher: Bantam Books / SFBC
- Price: $3.98
- Pages: 249
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Practice Effect
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- First hardcover edition (not stated).
- Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for October 1984.
- No printed price. Price for this record is taken from Locus1.
- No stated date of publication. The date for this record is taken from the list provided by SFBC editor Andrew Wheeler to the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup. Locus1 gives the month as November.
- "6213" printed in a white box at the bottom on the back of the dustjacket.
- First printing has gutter code "O37" [verified] on page 248, indicates a printing in September 1984.
- "Jacket painting by Jill Bauman" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket, the artwork is also signed.
- First printing has dark blue boards with brown lettering