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Publication: Mecca | Mettle

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  • Publication: Mecca | MettlePublication Record # 401317
  • Editor: Alice Schmidt
  • Date: 2005-08-00
  • Publisher: Payseur & Schmidt
  • Price:
    $35.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 102
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: Mecca | Mettle by Tim Kirk
  • Notes:
    • Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the editor, authors and artist. On the signed limitation card glued to the FFEP: "This edition of Mecca|Mettle is limited to 300 numbered copies, all of which are signed by the editor, and the contributors. ... This copy is numbered ___ of 300", with hand-written copy number.
    • "First Payseur & Schmidt Edition, August 2005" on the copyright page.
    • Publication contains no ISBN or cover price.
    • PV2 was purchased at time of issue for $35.00. It includes a tipped-in publisher's card which notes "You may be wondering what to make of this release ... this is a true first edition ...."
    • "Mecca: A Vision of the Next Crusade" is described as an "excerpt from an unpublished novel", the other titles described as "excerpts" appear to be complete works in their own right.
    • Individual introductions to Tim Kirk, Thomas M. Disch and all the stories plus essays 'Some Notes on BlöödHag' and 'Edu-Core: Past and Future', are uncredited on the pages they appear but evidently written by Alice Schmidt.
    • Pages 96–98 contain lyrics to the BlöödHag songs "George Orwell", "Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore" and "Thomas M. Disch".
    • A CD of BlöödHag music is attached to the inside back cover.
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Anthology Title: Mecca | Mettle • anthology by Alice Schmidt

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