The Complete Magnus Ridolph

Author:		Jack Vance.
Publisher:		Underwood-Miller.
Date of publication:		December 1984.
Editions:		Hardcover with dust jacket.
Number of copies:		Signed and numbered edition limited to 200 copies.
		Unsigned and unnumbered edition limited to 500 copies.
Original Price:		Signed and numbered edition $30.00.
		Unsigned and unnumbered edition $15.95.
Number of pages:		204 pages.
ISBN-10:		0-934438-98-6.

Back of dust-jacket

Spine

Front of dust-jacket

Two-page spread illustration by Virgil Finlay

The Complete Magnus Ridolph is illustrated by Virgil Finlay. The two-page spread covers about three-quarters of the title page and frontispiece page. The drawing on the back of the dust-jacket is also used in a much small format on the table of contents page.

The hardcover edition is signed by Jack Vance on the limitation page. The Complete Magnus Ridolph is the first publication to include all 10 of Vance’s sf stories of Magnus Ridolph.

Contents:

• Page 7: The Kokod Warriors, originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952.
• Page 39: The Unspeakable McInch, originally published in Startling Stories, November 1948.
• Page 56: The Howling Bounders, originally published in Startling Stories, March 1949.
• Page 74: The King of Thieves, originally published in tartling Stories, November 1949.
• Page 92: The Spa of the Stars, originally published in Startling Stories, July 1950.
• Page 111: Coup de Grace [“Worlds of Origin”], originally published in Super Science Fiction, February 1958.
• Page 132: The Sub-Standard Sardines, originally published in Startling Stories, January 1949.
• Page 154: To B or Not to C or to D [“Cosmic Hotfoot”], originally published in Startling Stories, September 1950.
• Page 177: Hard-Luck Diggings, originally published in Startling Stories, July 1948.
• Page 189: Sanatoris Short-Cut, originally published in Startling Stories, September 1948.