This issuing of "proofs" for later editions is an interesting trend. Tor now
does it fairly regularly.

---Mike

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Jon Meyers wrote:
wrote...
I bought at a house sale, Robert Silverberg's Star of Gypsies. It
says expected date of publication is March 2005. However, I learn
from www.abe.com that it was published in 1986 ? I thought I'd
bought
my husband a good gift (he is a sci-fi fan); now I wonder what
indeed
I have and thought I would ask if some one in the group could
enlighten me?

You evidently have the ARC for the recent Pyr (Prometheus) paperback
reissue
of this Silverberg book, which was, as you found out, originally
published
19 years ago.

Hey, if your husband is a Silverberg admirer and he hasn't read Star
of
Gypsies, it's still a good gift.


and if hubby is a collector, it is a good gift whether he's read it
or not.

chiwito