Latest Updates - C. J. Cherryh

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Comment by ppint.:

astra publishing house daw books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition

to you, our readers, to our excellent surgeons and doctors, and to our very patient publisher and editor°, we respectfully dedicate this book, and a very special dedication to jane's brother, allen "chip" fancher, pilot extraordinaire, our technical advisor - clear skies forever, chip! ---c. j. cherryh

° - betsy wollheim

cover (d-j) art by todd lockwood (signed © lockwood, credited & credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price $28.00 usa | $37.99 can(ada)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.1697
368pp. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), two b+w maps (one line-drawn, one grayscale), 1 blank p; 3 end pp. appendix; perfectbound onto backing strip with endpapers between bright blue paper-covered boards; title, authors, daw logo in gold on spine

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Comment by ppint.:

morgaine trilogy - 'til now - #4:

#1: ''gate of ivrel'' (1976), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

hamlyn / octopus publishing group methuen-mandarin transitional imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by john higgins (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.99 (possible overseas territories prices ? - check)
420pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising


refer to title page as well as indicia publishing history to distinguish from the mandarin imprint second uk p/b printing over-all, which adds to the publishing history line, ''reprinted 1989'' and removes most or all references to methuen (possibly not from the end pp. advertising), on the same isbn and retaining the
cover art by john higgins
cover price £3.99, $9.95 australia, 12.95 new zealand

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by michael whelan (signed with his sigil - incorporated as element in the painting, credited)
b+w map (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price ($4.95 canada) • $3.95 u.s.
near-meaningless daw books collector no.731
424pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from undated third printing;

the existence of this third printing implies the existence of a canadadian-carcassed variant of the first edition, retrospectively deemed to've been the second printing - or indicated second printing by printing number line - or of a bona fide, wholly merkin-printed second printing, albeit undated, distributed between the known first and third printings;
but no such second printing has been seen by yr hmbl srppnt., nor seen reported - not as yet.

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Comment by ppint.:

warner books aspect series tp/b omnibus first printing, first thus

omnibus edition of ''heavy time'' (1991), q.v., ''hellburner'' (1992), q.v. with cj's introduction (2000)

cover art unsigned
cover price $13.95 ($?.?? canada?)
608pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction by cj, etc, two novels

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz ltd. vgsf imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by tim hildebrandt (no visible signature, credited on back cover, re-used from daw h/cvr first edition d-j)
b+w maps by pat tobin (unsigned, credited)
cover price £2.95 net (no other territories' prices)
304pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, map etc, 54 end pp: 50pp. appendices, 2pp. advertising and mail-order information

appendices: 8pp. history & chronology (timeline), 2pp. religions, 2pp. seasons and time, 1p. the angel, 1p. the scouring and re-establishment, 2pp. the earthquake, 2pp. merovan names, 2pp. money, coinage, banking, 5½pp. manufacturing and trade, 2pp. the blacklegs, 1p. weaponry, 2pp. government, 6pp. boats, canalers, sea life, the det estuary, music; 7pp. maps plus 3pp. index to these: for a total of 50pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 978 0 71125 00799 1 0311

only the final element of which uniquely identifies this book from the prime news wholesalers/ distributors, being the publisher's core catalogue number for the book.

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb first printing, first omnibus edition, first thus

omnibus edition of ''cuckoo's egg'' (1985) & ''serpent's reach'' (1980), both c. j. cherryh, qqv.

cover art by michael whelan (signed, credited, re-used from ''cuckoo's egg'' c. j. cherryh (1985))
near-meaningless daw books collector no.1336 (borne, but seems no longer identified as this...)
cover price $7.99 u.s. $10.99 can(ada)
544pp. including four unnumbered unpaginated pp titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp. advertising


refer inter alia to indicia publishing history to distinguish from undated near-identical second printing:

cover price $8.99 u.s. $9.99 can(ada)
indicia publishing history printing number line drops the digit ''1''

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Comment by ppint.:

methuen mandarin imprint p/b first printing, seventh printing over-all of the methuen p/b omnibus

cover design by fran grove
cover art by john higgins (unsigned, large detail repeated on back cover, credited on back cover)
cover price £4.99
688pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, b+w perspective map etc, six end pp: 1p. swap advert for interzone as arranged by yr hmbl srppnt., 4pp. advertising for c. j. cherryh titles variously in magnum, methuen and mandarin p/bs, 1p. listing of methuen mandarin and mandarin science fiction p/bs including forthcoming june 1989 releases

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Comment by ppint.:

octopus / hamlyn / reed international publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover, retained from previous methuen edition)
cover price £3.99
432pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia, b+w maps etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

abp / methuen london methuen first p/b printing, first uk edition

cover art by chris moore (unsigned sfaics, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $8.25 new zealand
432pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w maps etc, end p. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1983 second printing;

methuen paperbacks third printing adds back cover bar-code, price, isbn block, and further differs:
cover price £2.95 (re-check; any overseas territories prices?)
432pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w maps (plans) etc, end p. advertising

1987 methuen paperbacks fourth printing differs:
cover price £3.50
indicia publishing history overlooks second 1983 printing, giving this the appearance of being third printing

next known uk p/b near-identical printing comes after abp sold themselves off and bears new isbn and mandarin imprint, qualifying as a new bookcat item, q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

octopus / hamlyn / reed Intl. publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing, iirc first uk edition

cover art by brian salmon (signed with initials in cartouche, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.50
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second printing reportedly 7/1990

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb first printing, apparently not first p/b edition;
reportedly preceded by a tp/b edition first printing 11/2019

cover art by micah epstein (shared from first edition daw books h/cvr d-j art)
cover price u.s. $8.99 (can(ada) $11.99)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.1811
432pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

set during the early part of what turned into the earth company - earth company-founded near stations - further stations separation wars - and then the earth company - earth company fleet (becoming the pirate ex-earth company fleet) - union - merchanters' alliance three-sided war...

the sequel to ''alliance rising'' c. j. cherryh, jane s. fancher (2023), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books h/cvr first printing, first edition; not yet published: due october 2024

cover (d-j) art not yet known
cover (d-j) price: not yet known, c. $30 u.s., c. $40 canada (expected)
near-meaningless daw books collector number: not yet known
352pp. including titles, indicia etc, to be (?perfect-)bound with endpapers between covered boards