Limited to 177 copies divided as follows:
10 "Publisher's Edition" lettered copies reserved for the press.
48 "Publisher's Edition" numbered copies for sale to subscribers and public. Pre-publication price: $280.00 subscribers/$375.00 non-subscribers. After publication, price was $425.00 to everyone. [This listing.]
119 "Collector's Edition" copies for sale to subscribers and public. $75.00 subscribers/$95.00 non-subscribers.
Original prospectus called for 157 copies (104 "Collector's Edition" copies and 53 "Publisher's Edition" copies with "...a few copies of the Publisher's Edition" held in reserve for non-subscribers.
Publication date from shipping invoice. Original publication date was to be late 1988 but production problems delayed publication.
Numbered Publisher's Edition copies not issued in dustjacket but in matching traycase instead. Lettered Publisher's Edition copies issued with both dustjacket like Collector's Edition and traycase.
Ideograms at the beginning of each chapter credited to Sachiko Wendell on page [83].
All copies signed by David Brin and Judy King-Rieniets but not Sachiko Wendell. Lettered copies signed by Brin on half-title page as well as on page [81], where both Brin and King-Rieniets signed.
No LCCN for this edition.
First verified copy is numbered, second is lettered.
