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Author:	Norman Spinrad
Title:	Agent Of Chaos
Publisher:	Belmont
Country:	USA
Date:	Jan 1967
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	B50-739
Total Editions:	5
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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JimEss SUBS 28th Apr 2021		Added the covers.



ppint. 4th Mar 2018		belmont productions silmultaneous near-identical first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was merkin- or canadadian- printed. no priority established nor liable to be, both stating a belmont book --- january 1967



ppint. 8th Aug 2022		and eventually, lo! the non-(i)sbn number-string was duly removed from the isbn field... (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th May 2022		second line in notes section is wrong and should be corrected or just deleted. the number-string quoted is not an sbn. an sbn is defined as having nine digits: the publisher code and book identifier (not necessarily identical with the cat#) followed by the checksum digit° derived from the previous eight digits according to a fairly simple strict mathematical calculation, to give the nine digit sbn. ° - which checksum digit may be used to spot errors in recording a book's sbn, and even to identify when two digits in the number have been accidentally swapped. not all american publishers were convinced immediately of the benefits of adopting the sbn system, and there was also - for a while - a rival abn (american book number) system which did not employ a checksum digit, which may have been cheaper for the publishers to use than the sbn system, and whose assigned publisher codes were not defined to be compatible with those of the sbn standard book number system. yr hmbl srppnt. does not know very much at all about the abn system, but the ace books publisher code, for example, was ''020-''. the sbn system was later extended into the isbn - international standard book number - system, initially by prepending the digit ''0'' to the sbn - which did not affect that checksum digit's value - and defining this ''0'' to indicate books published in the english language (an initial ''1'' was further reserved for the english language), with other initial digits and groups of digits identifying other languages - ''3'' for example identifying german (deutsch). the isbn system was in turn extended in the early 21st century c.e. into the isbn13 system, designed to be compatible across many industries' retail (& wholesale) products, initially by prepending ''978-'' to the first nine digits of the previously-issued isbn10 (the old isbn retrospectively so-named), identifying ''book'', and recalculating the checksum digit according to a new defined mathematical calculation. (the checksum digit of the isbn13 reveals errors in recording isbn13s, but does not identify which two digits have been transposed, if this be the error made.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th May 2022		belmont tower imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers° cover art unsigned, uncredited; as-yet still unattributed sfaik (may be jack faragasso - check) cover price 75¢ cat# 40125 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state a belmont/tower book---september 1972 ° - printed from the same typesetting as the previous belmont productions mmpb printings (this comment is from another edition of this book)



annaloog 12th May 2022		Sep 1972 (unnumbered) printing, with a different cover painting than previous Belmont editions. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th May 2022		belmont productions belmont imprint near-identical mmpb simultaneous second printings cover art by obrien (signed, uncredited; artist not as-yet further identified) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state a belmont book--april 1970 the style of the cover painting is reminiscent of that of jack faragasso, but this is not an attribution. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



HOOK45 SUBS 11th May 2021		Colectia Nautilus 30 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 29th Oct 2019		cover art by richard clifton-dey (new sourced attribution now would seem to be needed) cover price 30p, spain pts 75, gibraltar 35p, malta 35p, cyprus 350 mils, australia $1.00, new zealand $1.00, trinidad (w.i.) $1.80 so this edition should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally respected moderator's heartfelt plea 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 4th Mar 2018		cover art by richard clifton-dey (attribution apparently from munchkinpress.com, not online end febry/ early march 2018) re-used reversed l-r on manor books 1977 mmpb of "rork!" by avram davidson, q.v. and again on their ''the koiec corollary'' homer n. gholston (perhaps = l. n. gholoston) 1980 mmpb, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Norman Spinrad - Agent Of Chaos - New English Library - Paperback - UK - 450009874 (1972)

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Norman Spinrad - Agentul Haosului - Nemira - Paperback - Romania - 9739144926 (1993)

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Norman Spinrad - Agent Of Chaos - Belmont - Paperback - USA (1970)

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Norman Spinrad - Agent Of Chaos - Belmont Tower - Paperback - USA (1972)