The Secret Backs of Things
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Overview:
- Title: The Secret Backs of Things
- Author: Christopher Golden
- Year: 2010
- ISBN-10: 9781587672064
- Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
- Price: $175.00
- Pages: 427
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: One
- Notes:
- A limitation page following the front loose endpaper has the statement at the bottom: "This deluxe signed edition is limited to 52 lettered copies." (over) "This is letter _____." into which the letter has been handwritten. The author's signature is in the center of the page.
- The book is bound in leather with a green satin ribbon page marker, a dustjacket (with wraparound cover art, same as the regular signed edition), and housed in a leatherbound and velvet-lined traycase.
- "First Edition" and "Cemetery Dance Publications 2010" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
- Year of publication stated on the title page. Date of publication from the publisher's website.
- The word "Backs" is mirrored on the limitation page, the half-title page and the full title page.
- The subtitle "A short story collection" is printed on the front of the dustjacket, the book, and the traycase, but not on the title page.
- All new material, including the introduction, three new stories, and the interior art, is copyrighted 2007, but the book did not appear until 2010.
- Both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 are stated on the copyright page.
- "Dust Jacket Art: © 2010 by Alan M. Clark" (over) "Dust Jacket Design: Gail Cross" (over) "Typesetting and Design: Bill Walker" (over) "All interior art work is © 2007 by Glenn Chadbourne." stated on the copyright page.
- Each story is followed by author afterwords of varying lengths.