Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
The first Star Wars book, published six months before the first Star Wars film.
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Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
A hundred ships, two pages each, and a generation of readers memorising all of it.
Published in March 1996 with illustrations by Doug Chiang and Troy Vigil, the second Essential Guide gave a hundred vehicles from the films and the Expanded Universe a two-page spread apiece, complete with schematics. It defined the house style for Star Wars reference work.
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0 BBY – 4 ABY
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