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ppint. ● 27th Dec 2019
| | random house ballantine booka near-identical first printings sharing covers°, and hence also sbn, cat#,
cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited w/o "k.")
cover price $1.50
240pp? including titles, indicar etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia to see if copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first printing, march, 1975
° - covers prob'ly all merkin-printed, but this not as-yet checked for canadadian-printed books
distinguish from:
near-identical 10/1978 ballantine books second printings bear "a del rey book" in the logo after "ballantine" & cat#:
cover art by darrell k. sweet retained
cover title typography changed to a bright yellow
cat# 27452
isbn 0-345--27452-0
cover price varies:
cover price $1.95 (merkin-printed carcass ("book") as well as covers
cover price $2.25 (canadadian-printed carcass, merkin-printed covers)
indicia publishing history adds line stating second printing, october, 1978
240pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (titles advertised may differ from 3/1975) |
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ppint. ● 17th Dec 2019
| | tyger, tyger - my mistake;
i thought that you were william blake. . . |
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Juke Jules SUBS 17th Dec 2019
| | "number in isbn13 field should be deleted"
You should have said! |
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ppint. ● 17th Dec 2019
| | number in isbn13 field is^W was still wrong and should^W has still^W now been deleted. |
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ppint. ● 14th Mar 2019
| | number in isbn13 field is still not an isbn13 and should be deleted |
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ppint. ● 24th Feb 2018
| | this book does not bear an isbn13, it should be deleted.
isbn13ses had not then been invented yet by over two and a half decades
the number in the isbn13 field is wrong for any isbn13 |
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ppint. ● 11th Nov 2017
| | number in isbn13 field is incorrect
the number in the isbn10 field is the sbn9 actually borne by the book.
the isbn system was designed to be compatible with the sbn system
and including it in the isbn10 field makes it searchable upon. |
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ppint. ● 19th Apr 2023
| | futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited (seen attributed to bob fowke, but naught in support of this given)
cover price 60p, $2.20 australia, $2.20 new zealand
232pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. ● 19th Apr 2023
| | tor books mmpb second printing, despite bearing a printing number line of a first printing in the indica publishing history, 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1;
still bears two i/sbns, cat#s and cover prices; bears new
cover art (unsigned, sfaik still as-yet unattributed)
isbn 0-812-53-080-2 canada
cat# canada 53-080
cover price $3.50 canada
cover price $2.95 u.s.
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
no longer states distributed by pinnacle books, inc. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. ● 19th Apr 2023
| | tor books mmpb first printing, distributed by pinnacle books
n.b. bears two sbns and associated cat#s and cover prices
states a jim baen presentation on the title page
cover art by luis bermejo (unsigned, credited)
sbn 812-53-079-9 meerkia
cat# 53-079 merkia
sbn 812-53-080-2 canada
cat# 53-080 canada
cover price $3.50 canada
cover price $2.95 u.s.
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, and pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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