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Publication: The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again

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  • Publication: The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes AgainPublication Record # 191637
  • Author: Parke Godwin
  • Date: 1989-08-00
  • ISBN: 0-385-26350-3 [978-0-385-26350-4]
  • Publisher: Doubleday Foundation
  • Price:
    $6.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: ix+212+[2]
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Snake Oil Wars, or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again by Chris Consani
  • Notes:
    • "August 1989" (over) "First Edition" (over) "BP" stated on the copyright page without a number line.
    • The copyright page states that the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data was applied for, but it doesn't state the LCCN: 89-167697.
    • The ISBNs of both this trade paperback edition (0-385-26350-3) and the simultaneously published hardcover edition (0-385-24772-9) are stated on the copyright page.
    • Cover art is not credited. Credit here taken from the Locus1 listing for the book club edition.
    • Locus1 mistakenly titles this as The Snake Oil Variations [as of 2010-06-21]
    • There is a humorous autobiographical essay on the last two unnumbered pages of the book.
  • External IDs:
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