The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again

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Overview:

Title: The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again
Author: Parke Godwin
Year: 1989
ISBN-10: 0385263503
Publisher: Doubleday Foundation
Price: $6.95
Pages: ix+212+[2]
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again
Notes:
- "August 1989" (over) "First Edition" (over) "BP" stated on the copyright page without a number line.
- The copyright page states that the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data was applied for, but it doesn't state the LCCN: 89-167697.
- The ISBNs of both this trade paperback edition (0-385-26350-3) and the simultaneously published hardcover edition (0-385-24772-9) are stated on the copyright page.
- Cover art is not credited. Credit here taken from the Locus1 listing for the book club edition.
- Locus1 mistakenly titles this as The Snake Oil Variations [as of 2010-06-21]
- There is a humorous autobiographical essay on the last two unnumbered pages of the book.