Valentine Pontifex
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Overview:
- Title: Valentine Pontifex
- Author: Robert Silverberg
- Year: 1984
- Publisher: Arbor House / SFBC
- Price: $5.98
- Pages: 347
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Valentine Pontifex
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for February 1984.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Price from Locus1, which gives the month as April.
- "3546" printed at the bottom on the back of the dustjacket.
- First printing has gutter code "O04" [verified] on page 346, indicates a printing in January 1984.
- There are five full-page maps (four on the endpapers, and one on the verso of the front endpaper) which are uncredited, but are clearly signed "Palacios".
- "Jacket design by Loretta Trezzo" on rear flap
- First printing 1/4 bound in burgundy leatherette with blue boards and gold lettering
- OCLC has no record for this edition