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Red Noise

John Sladek

First published 1982
Publisher Cheap Street
Format Pamphlet
Type Chapbook
Cover art Kent Bash
Pages 28
Price $11.00

All information from examination copy of book.

  • No ISBN or price printed in book. Pricing information from purchase records.
  • Issued in 3 states: 26 lettered "Presentation Copies" reserved for private distribution; 99 "Ordinary Edition" (paper) copies (numbered 76 - 174) hand-sewn and issued in a printed envelope; and 75 (paper) copies (numbered 1 - 75) hand-sewn and inserted into slipcases."
  • All copies were "signed" by the author via a numbered signature plate pasted onto the limitation page.
  • Interior art consists of 3 printed plates pasted onto (blank) pages 10, 17 and 25.
  • Page numbering starts in Roman numerals for the introduction (v) and then switches to Arabic for the text of the story (10).
  • Publication Date from the publisher's log book in the Cheap Street Collection in the Rare Books Department of Tulane University.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Red Noise John Sladek Short Story
v Introduction: On the Language of Ribaldry Thomas M. Disch Essay