The Secret Backs of Things

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.