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Author:	Terry Pratchett
Title:	The Bromeliad
Subtitle:	Truckers Diggers Wings
Publisher:	Doubleday
Country:	UK
Date:	1998
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0385410441
Barcode:	9780385410441
Total Editions:	3
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 1 Wants
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ppint. 15th Jan 2022		covid-19 brainfog lifting: because sheets of paper have two sides°, books have an even number of pages: and because of the way paper folds - and because of the number of times a standard sized sheet of paper is folded to get the page size (after the folded printed sheet is guillotined) of the book being produced, ° - möbius strips aside... the cheapest production cost per page is provided by making books that are a whole number of multiples of 64 pages - so, 64pp, 128pp, 192pp, 256pp, 320pp, 384pp, etc; next-cheapest per page is a whole multiple of 64pp. plus one of 32pp. (or, if folding the starting sheet of paper that many times would give too small a page, a whole multiple of 32): 32pp, 64pp, 96pp, 128pp, 160pp, 192pp, 224pp, 256pp, 288pp, 320pp, 352pp, 384pp, etc; next-cheapest per page is a whole multiple of 64pp. plus one of 32pp, plus one of 16pp. (or, whole multiple of 32pp. plus one of 16pp; or, for a larger page size, a whole multiple of 16pp.) 16pp, 32pp, 48pp, 64pp, 80pp, 96pp, 102pp, 128pp, 144pp, 160pp, 176pp, 192pp, 208pp, 224pp, 240pp, 256pp, 272pp, 288pp, 304pp, 320pp, 336pp, 352pp, 368pp, 384pp, etc; and so on. the higher marginal costs of more complex constructions of the printed, folded and guillotined book carcase means that canny publishers like the late jim baen's baen books often decided to choose a whole multiple of 64pp. even though this would potentially produce a mmpb book with 63 blank pages at the end; baen books would then run an introductory chapter or two of the next book in the series they were simultaneously publishing in its hardcover first edition - a cunning plan to get you hooked on hardcovers! - - and then as many as a dozen pages advertising other books baen'd published by the same author, and other authors whose books you might well enjoy, because they're - more-or-less - similar...



David Whiteley ● 11th Jan 2022		Added Cover flaps and copyright page from 2000 reprint. price £15.00.



ppint. 5th Aug 2019		cover (d-j) art by josh kirby (a detail - true, a fairly large "detail" - from his cover for "diggers" (1990), q.v.) cover (d-j) price £12.99 512pp. bound with end-papers bound between orangey-cream cloth-covered boards near-identical second printing 2000 differs: cover (d-j) price £15.00 refer to indica printing history to check for presence of line stating ''reprinted 2000''



ppint. 10th Jan 2022		i have the feeling that the quality of paper used for this second^W third(?) printing is considerably lower than that used for the first doubleday uk h/cvr printing of this omnibus - i must check that this is indeed the case. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Jan 2022		random house children's books doubleday imprint h/cvr implied second printing, stating only ''reprinted 2003'': must be at least thrid doubleday h/cvr printing cover (d-j) art by david wyatt (credited; new for this second^W thrid(?) printing's d-j) cover (d-j) price £15.00 8 unpaginated pp. titles, indica etc, followed by the text of the three novels separately-paginated: 7-190pp.; 6 unpaginated pp. titles followed by 7-153pp., 1 blank p.; 7 unpaginated pp. titles, author's note followed by 8-158pp., 4 blank pp = 514pp. bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad - Doubleday - Hardcover - UK - 0385410441 (2003)

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Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 9780552546072 (2007)