Latest Updates - Michael Moorcock

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition

cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.50
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 291
176 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1978 and both bear full first printing number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Comment by ppint.:

shares the merkin-printed covers of the daw books, inc. mmpb first printing

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Comment by ppint.:

elric series #1.5:

#1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #2:

#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #1:

#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), (this book)
#2: "the woods of arcady" (2023), q.v.
#3: "the wounds of albion" (nyp)

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Comment by ppint.:

quartet books fourth printing 1976 on same isbn and from same plates/type-setting has new cover design,

dedication: "for marianne"

new cover art by chris achilleos (uncredited, unsigned, collected in "beauty & the beast" chris achilleos (1978), q.v.)
cover price 60p, canada $2.50
160pp. including 6 unnumbered, uncounted pp. titles, indicia etc.4 end pp. advertising and mail-order information (barnicoats, un-id-ed)


the new distributor, futura publications, 's sf imprint orbit logo appears on front cover & spine, but this remains a quartet books limited publication. at least some copies bore a black-on-white peelable sticky label with the quartet logo over the orbit logo on the front cover, when originally distributed, possibly all.


indicia publishing history includes:

published by quartet books limited 1973
27 goodge street, london w1p 1fd (uk)

first published in great britain by allison & busby ltd, 1973

copyright © 1973 by michael moorcock

printed in great britain by
hunt barnard printing ltd., aylesbury, bucks.

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added review from The Guardian Thursday July 2nd 1981.

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books equinox rediscovery series b-format p/b first printing, not first merkin p/b edition

cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, credited as bob foster) (retained from 1970 avon mmpb cover)
cat# 28589 canada
cover price $2.45 canada
cover price $2.25 usa
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

''author'' field should^W has been varied to ''editor''

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books p/b second printing with new:

cover art by adrian chesterman (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 85p, $2.75 australia (recommended), $1.95 canada
isbn given on spine & back cover in two rows as isbn 0-14/00.2868-4 (i s'spect no-one now knows why penguin used the '.' between the 00 & original, and certainly not in any totally _new_, 00.wxyz-(checksum digit cat#s))
208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
(end p. advertising may (very likely does) differ from that in first printing)

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Comment by ppint.:

one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition

cover art by robert gould
in uniform, decorated broad silver margined design
cover price $2.50
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

the dream of earl aubec (short story) fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1964 as ''master of chaos'', one b+w illustration by virgil finlay
the dreaming city (novelette) science fantasy #47, 6/1961, the cover story, art by brian lewis
while the gods laugh (ntte) science fantasy #49, 10-11/1961
the singing citadel (ntte) in ''the fantastic swordsmen'' ed. l. sprague de camp (1967), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

w. h. allen/howard & wyndham star imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella

cover art unsigned, uncredited
b+w interior illustrations by jill riches
cover price 95p, £M1 malta, $3.50 australia, $3.30 new zealand
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

it is possible there was a near-identical second printing the same year: refer to indicia publishing history to see if the copy held is the first or the putative second 1979 printing

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella

cover art by bob pepper (signed, credited)
interior b+w decorations (illustrations) by jill riches
cover price $1.25
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 229
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 daw printing, february, 1977/123456789

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Cover scans added and Cat# correction submitted.

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons grafton imprint p/b first printing, still from suitably emended mayflower books typesetting, seventh printing over-all, with new

cover art by mark salwowski (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50, $7.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand, $5.95 canada
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1988 grafton p/b second printing, eighth printing over-all from the mayflower books typesetting

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons granada imprint p/b still printed from suitably emended mayflower books p/b typesetting, of which it's the sixth printing over-all iicc

cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, miscredited to bob ''habberfield'' on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $6.95 new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons/granada publishing (check) granada imprint p/b may still retain mentions of mayflower books as is printed from the same typesetting, suitably emended, fifth printing over-all if i've counted correctly

cover art by bob haberfield
cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $5.25 new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition

cover art by robert gould (unsigned, credited)
cover price ($3.50 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing mayflower books imprint p/b first printing, first edition

cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, uncredited; formerly on the artist's website)
cover price 5/- (25p), 80c australia, 80c new zealand, 95c canada
sbn 583118003
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

the sbn of nine digits including checksum digit is arithmetically equivalent to the isbn of ten digits which was derived from it by prefixing with a ''0'' when the isbn system was developed from the sbn system, and is compatible with it.

there is no known reason to exclude sbns from the isbn10 field as the prepending of a ''0'' has no effect upon the calculation of the checksum digit, so the sbn is compatible with the isbn10.

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Comment by ppint.:

notes section: this book does not bear an ssn, and this should be deleted.
edit 22:30: instead ssn has been changed to sbn; but it is still incorrect and should still be deleted

edit 13/12/23: the figure in the notes: section has now been corrected to the sbn, but is not in bookcat's format for isbn13ses, isbn10ses or, presumably, sbnses, excluding spaces (and dashes).

the sbn has needlessly been removed from the isbn10 field, though it is compatible with the isbn10.

later printings by granada publishing / the granada group are liable to bear the isbn10 derived from the sbn by the prepending of a ''0'', which does not affect aught arithmetically.

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Comment by ppint.:

aka and originally ''phoenix in obsidian'' (1970), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

dell mmpb second edition, dell mmpb third printing over-all, with new cat# and new isbn

cover art by frank frazetta (signed, retained from first two dell mmpb printings)
cover price $1.50
224p. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to distinguish from near-identical 11/1978 dell mmpb second edition second printing, fourth dell mmpb printing over-all
indicia publishing history adds line stating
second printing---november 1978

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Comment by ppint.:

dell publishing co. dell imprint mmpb first printing, first merkin edition

cover art by frank frazetta (signed frazetta, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1974 second printing, which differs:

printing history adds line:
second printing---january 1974