The Stars My Destination

Overview:

  • Title: The Stars My Destination
  • Author: Alfred Bester
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9780575094192
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: viii+244
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Stars My Destination
  • Notes:
    Stated 2nd printing of the 2010 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • Gollancz colophon as imprint.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © Alfred Bester 1956"
    • "Special Restored Text of this edition Copyright © the Estate of Alfred Bester 1996"
    • "Introduction Copyright © Graham Sleight 2009"
    • "Of Time, and Gully Foyle Copyright © Neil Gaiman 1996"
    • "Special calligraphy and ideographs in Chapter 15 created by Jack Gaughan"
    • "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Orion Books Ltd"
    • "This edition published in Great Britain in 2010 by [over] Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, [over] London WC2H 9EA"
    • "An Hachette UK company"
    • Number line: "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"
    • "ISBN 978 0 575 09419 2"
    • "Printed and bound in Great Britain by [over] Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    Back cover:
    • "UK £7.99" (no additional pricing)
    • "Based on illustration by Chris Moore/ Artist Partners" (no visible signature on the artwork)
    Spine:
    • SF Masterworks, The Stars My Destination in black; Alfred Bester in red, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Introduction is signed on page viii "Graham Sleight, [over] August 2009" Neil Gaiman's essay is unsigned. Jack Gaughan's uncredited calligraphy and ideographs in chapter 15 are on pages 216-225. Semi-gloss cover.