Variations sur une machine
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Overview:
- Title: Variations sur une machine
- Author: Richard-Bessière
- Year: 1971
- Publisher: Fleuve Noir
- Pages: 233
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Variations sur une machine
- Notes:
- Probable first printing.
- DL = 4th trimester 1971.
- No price on book.
- No ISBN.
- Uncredited cover art; no signature; Gaston De Sainte-Croix is known for having illustrated Fleuve Noir Anticipation covers from #274 to #561.
- Uncredited interior art but clearly by De Sainte-Croix.
- Note the existence of a "Préface" signed "Prof. Hans von Schneider", and most likely written by Richard-Bessière himself (it does not appear below).
- Similarly, note the exceptional presence of a ToC on p. [234].