any number in isbn13 field is wrong; this book bears no sbn9, isbn10 nor isbn13.
collection of five short stories, one a collaboration with randall garrett, and two novelettes, one a "posthumous collaboration" with robert e. howard, plus introduction and postscript by lin carter
belmont publications belmont mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition sharing merkin-printed covers and hence cat# and
cover art by jeff jones
cover price 60¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia to determine whether you hold a copy with merkin or canadadian-printed carcass.
no priority established nor liable to be, both state a belmont book---august 1969
nordon industries leisure books mmpb undated° second printing with new cat#, isbn incorporating this,
inflation fighter series†, science fiction #2
† - = poorly-printed text, and with no cover art
cover art typographical, black and spot green (and one yellow star price flash) on the white card
cover price $1.50
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising°
nordon industries leisure books mmpb undated° first printing, using the typesetting of the previous mmpbs by belmont and belmont tower, suitably emended
cover art (signed somewhat blurrily†, and as-yet undeciphered, sfaik, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
160pp. including titles, indicia (ha!) etc, end pp. advertising
° - year of publication entered obtained by interpolation of cat# between cat#s of known publication date, and checked by comparison of cover prices of leisure books of this extent
† - maybe indicates that the cover art was re-used from a previous belmont or belmont tower mmpb or was bought in from another publisher - quite possibly from a uk publisher (this comment is from another edition of this book)
a sort of introduction, called here, and back again (nf) lin carter
masters of the metropolis (short story) lin carter, randall garrett (inside (fanzine, ron smith) 1/1956); (f&sf vol.12 #4, 4/1957)
owlstone (ss) lin carter (1969°)
keru (ss) lin carter (1969°)
the hand of nergal (novelette) robert e. howard, lin carter (in ''conan'' robert e. howard (1967), q.v.)
harvey hodges, veebelfetzer (ntte) lin carter (1969°)
uncollected works (ss) lin carter (f&sf vol.28 #3, 3/1965)
the mantichore: from a work in progress (ss) lin carter (1969°) (apparently chh. 4-7 - but of what?)
a few last words (nf afterword) lin carter
° - these seem to be original to this collection (this comment is from another edition of this book)
belmont tower mmpb simultaneous first printings, using belmont books typesetting, second mmpb over-all
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 95¢
160pp. 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 a belmont/tower book---november 1972 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
a five star paperback
published by pbs limited, victoria mills, pollard street, manchester m4 7au (uk)
half reprint collection of five short stories and two novelettes, introduction & afterword note by lin carter
cover art by jack faragasso (uncredited) (signature visible on re-use on "monty, der geisterfänger" marcos mongo (zauberkreis, germany 1980))
cover price 25p, 6.00s east africa, 60c, south africa, 70c australia, 75c new zealand
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
- or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
indicia publishing history states this edition published in mcmlxxiii
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
no cat#, no (i)isbn, no evidence known of its being distributed by way of trade new outside the british isles and possibly the immediate western edge of continental yeurrp. not re-orderable by retailer, likely boxed out to their accounts by news wholesalers world distributors of manchester, and - pretty immediately thereafter - remaindered. (this comment is from another edition of this book)