The Ringworld Engineers

Overview:

• Title: The Ringworld Engineers
• Author: Larry Niven
• Year: 1979
• ISBN-10: 0932096034
• Publisher: Phantasia Press
• Price: $30.00
• Pages: viii+355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The Ringworld Engineers
• Notes:
  • On copyright page:
    • First Edition
    • This special collectors edition published by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • No statement of printing; no numberline
  • Year on title page. Source of month unknown. Locus magazine #230 (February 1980) lists it in the "January Books" column but Locus1 refers to it as "Phantasia 1979"
  • Publisher (Phantasia Press) was contacted, requesting exact publication date. Reply dated 2024-04-16 from "Alex Berman, Publisher" reads in part: "My records, and best recollection, seem to show that our edition of THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS was published in late 1979, and likely released in November or December of that year."
  • "Cover Painting by Paul Lehr" on rear dust jacket flap. The wraparound cover artwork is signed "Lehr"
  • "Frontispiece by Paul Lehr" on title page. This single page of full colour artwork is printed on glossy paper and is signed "Lehr"
  • issued in a plain, dark green slipcase
  • issued with a loosely laid in foldout black and white map of part of the Ringworld which is signed "Duane (after Niven & Wu)"
  • Statement of limitation on a rear free endpaper:
    • This first edition of The Ringworld Engineers
      is limited to five hundred numbered copies, all
      of which have been signed by the author.
      This is number <handwritten copy number>
      <author's signature>
  • Novel ends on page 351. Glossary on pages 352-354. Ringworld Parameters on page 355