What Mad Universe
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Overview:
- Title: What Mad Universe
- Author: Fredric Brown
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: The Easton Press
- Pages: [16]+190
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: What Mad Universe
- Notes:
- "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
- "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1986 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
- This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
- One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
- No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
- Unlike most books in this series, the title of the novel is given on the front cover.
- The uncredited illustrative cover design is repeated on the back, but without the title.
- Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin bookmark bound into the book.
- The B&W frontispiece, credited on the title page, is on the page facing the title page.
- There are five interior full-page B&W illustrations by Frank Mayo, appearing on numbered pages and indexed on page [9].
- "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
- Verifier has been unable to determine if this edition is a facsimile reprint of an earlier one. It may be a reprint of the 1981 Nelson Doubleday (SFBC) edition, but with extra pages accounting for the interior illustrations.
- Verified copy was purchased for approximately $40.00 from the publisher.