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Publication: Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations

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  • Publication: Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy IllustrationsPublication Record # 287648
  • Authors: Chris Achilleos, Lee Anders
  • Date: 1978-09-00
  • ISBN: 0-671-24413-2 [978-0-671-24413-2]
  • Publisher: Fireside Books / Simon & Schuster
  • Price:
    $7.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 92
  • 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: NONFICTION
  • Cover: Beauty and the Beast by Chris Achilleos (variant of Swordsmistress of Chaos)
  • Notes:
    • No edition, printing, printing date or printing number line in book
    • ©Dragon's World Ltd 1978
    • Produced and designed by Martyn Dean.
    • Text is by Lee Anders, but is credited only on the spine and at the end of Everybody Loves a Hero
    • 56-57 "Jungle" (only other publication of image I can find was in the 1992 FPG collectors' card set
    • 62-63 "Fish Girl" was edited for content (US) and re-published in both the 1992 FPG set and the "Colossal" follow-up set
    • 64 First Lady was edited for content and re-published in Sirens, then re-edited for (more) content and republished by FPG as a collectors' card
    • 66 Indoor Games III was edited for content, renamed "Ray Gun Girl" and re-published in Amazona (also in the trading card set as the edited version)
    • 67 Indoor Games II, 68 Slave to the Rhythm, 70-71 Eastern Promise, 76 Bird of Paradise and 77 Butterfly Girl were edited for content and republished by FPG as a collectors' card
    • Whip It! was edited for content, renamed "Red Hood" and re-published in Amazona (also in the trading card set as the edited version)
    • 72-73 Seduction was cropped for a card in the FPG collectors' card series
    • Female Essence was published in the FPG collectors card set un-edited
    • the image on page 75 I've never seen anywhere else
    • Pages 90-92 have 3 UFO images that ©1973 Tandem Universal Publ Co Ltd Background photographs by Brian Boyle
  • External IDs:
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Nonfiction Title: Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations • nonfiction by Chris Achilleos [as by Chris Achilleos and Lee Anders]

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