Latest Updates - Keith Laumer

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Comment by ppint.:

hodder & stoughton coronet books first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art by lee noel (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in "the tourists guide to transylvania" stewart cowley (1981) entitled "minor demons")
cover price 60p, $1.95 australia, $1.95 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

millington books first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by w. f. phillipps (signed)
cover (d-j) price £2.50
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

10/1975 warner books mmpb simultaneous first printings, accounted the third printing, sharing merkin-printed covers in redesigned cover with warner logo, bearing new cat# 86-001
isbn 0-446-86001-8

cover art by davis meltzer (signed, uncredited; retained from previous paperback library mmpb printings)
cover price $1.25
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state third printing: october, 1975

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Comment by ppint.:

title was entered wrongly by the o.p. and should^W has been corrected:

the space between the first word (''retief'') and the colon ('':'') should^W has been deleted

as per the front cover, spine, title page etc.

bookcat will^W then^W now automagically sorts this item correctly, and finds it likewise in look-ups

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Comment by ppint.:

simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb undated third printing, with slight variant

cover art by carlos ochagavia signed, uncredited, retained from previous printings)
cover price $2.50°
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising

some copies have cover price overprinted in grey, plastic glooming ink, new price $3.95 printed at same time, on front cover; these possibly so treated for distribution north of the parallel after stock of previous copies intended for like distribution sold out

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Comment by ppint.:

simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings, first revised edition

cover art by carlos ochagavia (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, small white maple leaf logo bearing ''published in canada'' near spine front cover in chief
cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising

refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first pocket books printing, october 1079
and bear full first printing number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

the hoob melon crisis (novelette) 1975 apparently original to this anthology
the garbage invasion (ntte) f&sf vol.43 #6, 12/1972
an excerpt from ''retief and the warlords'' keith laumer (1968), q.v. (short excerpt)
the troubleshooters (ntte) 1975 apparently original to this anthology
the negotiators (short story) analog vol. xcv #2, 2/1975, one b+w illustration by frank kelly freas

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Comment by ppint.:

dell publishing mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

~ half original, half reprint anthology of three novelettes, a short story and a novel excerpt

cover art by robert (bob):foster (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/02/bob-foster-gentleman-with-personal-high.html)
cover price 95¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing---december 1975