Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories
  • Author: Howard Fast
  • Year: 1975
  • ISBN-10: 0378063758
  • Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
  • Price: $12.95
  • Pages: xvi+490
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Time and the Riddle: Thirty-One Zen Stories
  • Notes:
    • As noted by Contento1, this is essentially an omnibus of all the stories in Howard Fast's previous four collections: The Edge of Tomorrow (1961), The Hunter and the Trap (1967), The General Zapped an Angel (1970), and A Touch of Infinity (1973.) It includes one new story, Echinomastus Contentii, plus a new Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword.
    • On copyright page: "Copyright (c) 1975", LCCN & ISBN.
    • $12.95 price on jacket front flap.
    • There is no credit for the jacket art.
    • The Foreword is signed "Louis Untermeyer", and the Introduction is signed "Frank Campenni, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Wisconsin".