The Time of the Dark
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Overview:
- Title: The Time of the Dark
- Author: Barbara Hambly
- Year: 1996
- ISBN-10: 0345409957
- Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
- Price: $0.00
- Pages: 263
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Time of the Dark
- Notes: "Special Free Edition" and "Coming this Fall: Mother of Winter By..." on the cover, along with the original Mattingly cover artwork (Budweiser Wizard).
No price appears on the spine or cover, as explained by the special banner and starburst.
No barcode appears on te back, and no ISBN on the spine. ISBN appears only on the front cover. (ISBN possibly limited to this edition)
Letter from 'Editors of Del Rey Books' printed on the back cover, welcoming the reader to the first book of the Darwath Trilogy, to promote the 4th book in that universe after a decade plus hiatus.
Copyright page has "First Edition: May 1982"; "Fifteenth printing: December 1992" followed by a new full 10-1 number line. (Implies that original edition had 15 printings total over 10 years, and that this is the first printing of a new edition).
Edition is dated to 1996 by the cover blurb for Mother of Winter 'coming this fall' and on the inside of the cover "Watch out for her this fall!"