Latest Updates - Piers Anthony

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Comment by ppint.:

bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 37145 00395 5 53127

only the final element of which uniquely identified this book from the supplier, being its cat#

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Comment by ppint.:

thomas doherty associates, inc. tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by don maitz (signed, uncredited)
canadadian isbn 0-812-53128-0
cover price $4.95 can(ada)
cover price $3.95 us
288pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 9 end pp: 6pp.author's note (nf), 1 blank p, 1p. advertising in-print tor books editions of poul anderson titles, 1 blank p.

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons grafton books panther imprint p/b first printing, first complete uk edition

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.95, $7.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month of publication not given; taken from locus


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second printing, which differs:
cover price £2.95, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand
indicia publishing history adds line:
reprinted 1986

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Comment by ppint.:

thomson books ltd. sphere books undated° second printing of their abridged edition with new

cover art by tony (anthony) roberts (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in science fiction monthly vol.1 #2, 2/1974)
drops the uniform framed sf classics cover design, states sf classic no.7 (sphere logo) above title
cover price 50p
352pp. including titles, indicia (ha!) etc, end pp. advertising

° - 1974 date entered obtained by interpolation into sphere books p/bs of known publication dates and of comparable extent bearing a 50p cover price and an isbn; 1973 is also possible.

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Comment by ppint.:

thomson books ltd. sphere books p/b first printing, first uk edition, abridged edition, first thus
sphere science fiction classics #7

sphere sf classics series uniform design cover, cover art framed in black, sphere science fiction classics in black on lemon yellow cartouche, within slightly wider white cartouche above

cover art by eddie jones
cover price 50p, 12/25 east africa (shillings), $1.60 australia, $1.60 new zealand
352pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition

cover art by charles santore (signed, uncredited)
cover price $1.25
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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 avon printing, october, 1969

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons grafton (possibly still granada) books panther imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $6.95 new zealand
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer inter alia to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical reprintings on same isbn:

1985 second printing which differs:
second printing 1985 date noted in publishing history

1987 now grafton imprint, third uk p/b printing over-all, which further differs:
cover price £2.95, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand
indicia publishing history notes third printing's date, asserts both prior printings were grafton books

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons grafton (possibly still granada) books panther imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $6.95 new zealand
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer inter alia to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical reprintings:

1986 grafton imprint second printing over-all which differs:
indicia publishing history notes second printing
cover price £2.50, $6.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand
previous printing now stated to've been published a grafton books

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (signed walotsky, uncredited)
cover price $2.95
272pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp: author's note (nf), advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see whether the copy held is a near-identical undated second printing, this would be indicated only by the dropping of the digit ''1'' from the printing history number line which in the first printing reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (canada $45.50) • us $4.50


completely new cover design is introduced with either the second or the third printing, with new
cover art by kevin eugene johnson, victoria poster (signed in blue with a cross made up of pj+vk
(p vertically above j and sharing downstroke, k incorporating v, lying on its back which forms the basic equilateral cross bisected by the downstroke);
this new cover art is retained through the eighth printing, with rising cover prices.

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing group panther books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
indicia gives 1978 for the publication year of the millington h/cvr, not the 1979 declared in it

cover art by fred gambino (signed fjg, uncredited)
cover price £1.25, £1.37½ rep. of ireland, $4.25 australia, $3.95 new zealand
336pp. (check) including six pages titles, indicia, nf-within-f article etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indica publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1985 second printing, which differs:
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand

and 1988 near-identical third over-all uk p/b printing, now published by collins group in grafton books
which further differs:
the words ''panther science fiction'' in chief on front cover are partially ''blued out''
cover price £2.95, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand
the indicia publishing history now claims all the previous uk printings were published by grafton books

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Comment by ppint.:

millington ltd. first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition
again, credited in the first uk p/b edition with having appeared in 1978

cover (d-j) art: none, typographical in black and orange on a mauvey-pink field
cover (d-j) price £4.95
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books simultaneous mmpbs first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky
cover price $1.75
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, cluster political geography (nf within f), end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first avon printing, july, 1978

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Comment by ppint.:

gives 1978 for the publication of the millington h/cvr edition, not the h/cvr's declared 1979.

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing panther / granada imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited, probably by fred gambino
cover price £1.25, £1.37½ rep. of ireland, $4.25 australia, $3.95 new zealand
352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


distinguish from near-identical 1985 second printing, which differs:
stated second printing in indicia publishing history
cover price £1.95, $7.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand


near-identical 1987 third printing on same isbn is by the collins group as a grafton imprint p/b
stated third printing in indicia publishing history, which claims the two previous printings were by grafton
cover price £2.95, $7.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand


undated fourth printing on same isbn by collins group under grafton imprint bears new
cover art by paul damon (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand

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Comment by ppint.:

millington ltd. 1979 - possibly 1978 - first printing, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art none, typographical black and yellow on yellow field
cover (d-j) price £4.95
348pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

hearst corporation avon books simultaneous mmpbs first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (signed, credited)
cover price $1.75
344pp. (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 avon printing, march 1978

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Comment by ppint.:

millington books first printing 1978 but stated 1979, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art (none: d-j is typographical in black and orange on a lemony-yellow field)
cover (d-j) price £4.95
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

hearst corporation avon books simultaneous mmpbs first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (signed, signature often guillotined off covers in production, uncredited)
cover price $1.75
256pp. (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 avon printing, october, 1977

the cat# is completely unrelated to the isbn of this book: this is correct for avon mmpbs of this period


distinguish from at least two undated near-identical reprintings by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line progressively dropping digits, the lowest remaining digit indicating the printing number

cover art changes with or by the undated eighth printing, still on the same isbn & cat#,
cover price $2.95 ($3.75 can(ada)), this art retained through the twelfth printing, cover prices rise.

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers first printing, first uk p/b edition
(it's an originally granada / panther, later grafton, group block prefixed isbn, (0-)586-)

cover art by
cover price £4.99
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month not given; it's the month i first stocked this uk edition

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers p/b first printing, approximately simultaneous with h/cvr first uk edition
(uses an originally granada / panther, later grafton, books block prefixed isbn (0-)586-)

cover art (unsigned, i think by mark salwowski)
cover price £4.99
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint p/b first uk edition

cover art by mark salwowski
cover price £3.99 (?overseas territories prices?)
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint p/b first uk edition

cover art by mark salwowski
cover price £3.99 (?overseas territories prices?)
336pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by manuel morales (signed m morales)
canadian isbn 0-812-50258-2
cover price can(ada) $5.95
cover price us $4.95

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Comment by ppint.:

tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by manuel morales (signed m morales)
cover price $4.95 ($5.95 can(ada))
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed dks)
cover price $4.99 ($5.99 can(ada))
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

distinguish from the undated second printing by reference to indicia publishing history printing number line which drops the digit ''1'' from the first printing's 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Comment by ppint.:

tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed dks)
cover price $4.99 ($5.99 can(ada))
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish undated near-identical second printing which drops the digit ''1''

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Comment by ppint.:

adventures of kelvin of rud pentalogy #1:
piers anthony, robert e. margroff:

#1: ''dragon's gold'' (1987), (this novel)
#2: ''serpent's silver'' (1988), q.v.
#3: ''chimaera's copper'' (1990), q.v.
#4: ''orc's opal'' (1990), q.v.
#5: ''mouvar's magic'' (1992), q.v.

omnibus editions:
(seen advertised, but yr hmbl srppnt.'s not seen any of these in the wild:)
of #1, #2 & #3:
#O1: ''the adventures of kelvin of rud: across the frames'' (guildamerica 1992)
aka ''dragon's gold / serpent's silver / chimaera's copper'' (1994)
of #4 & #5:
#O2: ''the adventures of kelvin of rud: final magic'' (guildamerica 1992)

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by mark salwowski (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.99 (?overseas territories prices?)
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by steve (stephen) hickman
canadian isbn 0-812-53126-4
cover price can(ada) $4.95
cover price us $3.95
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from undated near-identical third & fourth printings;

fourth printing further differs:
isbn 0-812-51384-3
cover price $4.99 (can $5.99)

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
an ace science fiction special (so stated on cover in chief) (first series)

cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited as the dillons on back cover)
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

a five-digit cat# on spine: 020-01019 (may be the book's abn; not an sbn. terminal -075 is cover price)
(pre-the ace books systematic five-digit allocation system)

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Comment by ppint.:

gives a © (copyright date of) 1973, but does not state the text has been revised, neither then, nor for this edition.