Del Rey - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books simultaneous near-identical mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
del rey series

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed, credited)
cover price $2.25 (canadadian printing)
cover price $1.95 (u.s. printing)
320pp. (check) including pages (i-) xiii titles, indicia, introduction, two b+w maps etc, 27 end pp: two nf-within-f appendices, advertising

refer also to indicia to check if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be. both state first edition: november 1978

darrel sweet's cover art retained through (at least) the twelfth (1991) printings:

author's name on front cover now in black, rather than in white, and underlined in the orangey-red of title:

second printing: may 1980; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337
thrid printing: november 1980; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337
some copies of third printing distributed north of the parallel bearing ballantine's label in canada $2.75
fourth printing: october 1981; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337

fifth printing: (?march 1983?); cover price $2.50, isbn 0345311205, cat# 31120
(3/1983 date is not from locus, only from an amazon entry, so not exactly excessively reliable-upon)
sixth printing: december 1984; cover price $2.95, isbn 0345342501, cat# 34250

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author's name on front cover in orangey-red as per title, front cover sports a black-outlined white band across near top bearing three-line puff-line leading up to the del Rey series roundel; cat# is still stated to be ballantine:

twelfth printing: 11/1991; (canada $6.50) u.s. $4.95, isbn 0345324501, cat# 32450
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state twelfth printing: november 1991

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Comment by ppint.:

well world saga (originally intended to be a trilogy) #1

#1: "midnight at the well of souls" (1977) (this book)
#2a (or #2): "exiles at the well of souls" (1978) q.v.
#2b (or #3): "quest for the well of souls" (1978) q.v.
#3a (or #4): "the return of nathan brazil" (1980) q.v.
#3b (or #5): "twilight at the well of souls: the legacy of nathan brazil" (1980) q.v.
(end of the original trilogy-in-five-paperbacks)
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#4 (or #6): "the sea is full of stars" (1990) q.v.
#5: (or #7): "ghost of the well of souls" (2000) q.v.

n.b. the second and the fourth books in the well world saga are not complete stories: each is the first half of a novel completed in the third and fifth books in the series, respectawigglily.


the watchers at the well series:
2#1: "echoes of the well of souls" (1993) q.v.
2#2: "shadows of the well of souls" (1994) q.v.
2#3: "gods of the well of souls" (1994) q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

#3a (or #4) in the well of souls saga, starting but not completing the third novel which is finished, together with the original well of souls series, in #3b (or #5)

#1: "midnight at the well of souls" (1977), q.v. for full series & sub-series listing and links

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Comment by ppint.:

random house ballantine books del rey imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by bruce jensen (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price (canada $5.99) u.s. $4.99
368pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

barcode number truncated by too-small field: 070999-00399-3-36090

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Comment by ppint.:

wizard and dragon trilogy #2:

#1: "the forging of the dragon" (1989), q.v.

prequel trilogy to the pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy
#1: "the prophet of lamath" (1979), q.v. for series' listings, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

barcode number truncated by too-small field: 070999-00395-5-33744

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Comment by ppint.:

wizard and dragon trilogy 2#1:

2#2: "the faithful traitor" (1992) q.v.

prequel trilogy to the pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy
1#1: " the prophet of lamath" (1979) q.v. for series' listings, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

#1 of the spellbent trilogy:

#1: "spellbent" (2009), (this book)
#2: "shotgun sorceress" (2010), q.v.
#3: "switchblade goddess" (2012), q.v.

"what dwells within" (novelette) in "shadowed souls" eds. jim butcher, kerrie l. hughes (2016), q.v. is apparently set in the spellbent world; i've no idea when it occurs by the series' internal chronology

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Comment by ppint.:

the videssos cycle:
the time of troubles #4:

the lost legion #1:
#1: "the misplaced legion" (1987), q.v. for series' listings, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books del rey series (logo on cover only) mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by doug beekman (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.95
336pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising