hearst corporation avon books near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cat#, and
cover art by alex gnidziejko (signed "ag", credited)
cover price 95¢
332pp? (check) including unpaginated titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
refer to indicia to see if the carcass of the copy you hold was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first avon printing, april, 1969
wm. collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, third printing of the panther books setting,
with grafton replacing granada and panther throughout; still published on the panther books isbn
cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover) (see also geofftaylor-artist.com/galleries/)
cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand
288pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given in indicia publishing history, taken from locus
cover art is very atypical of geoff taylor's usual style, and detracted from by the unsympathetic colour used for the typography (this comment is from another edition of this book)
granada publishing ltd. panther books imprint p/b second panther books printing, with new
cover art by peter gudynas (unsigned, credited on back cover)
adds granada publishing ltd. as publisher, which replaces panther in some places in this printing
cover price 95p, £1.04½ republic of ireland, $3.25 australia, $2.95 new zealand, $3.25 canada
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
second panther books printing 1979 in panther/granada
adds granada publishing ltd. as publisher, replacing panther in some positions, sbn -> isbn
grafton books' 2/1988 printing is still on panther books isbn 0586035354, bears new
cover art by geoff taylor (credited on rear cover) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
granada publishing group panther books ltd. panther imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b
(published 1969 in uk h/cvr by macdonald & co. (publishers) ltd.)
cover art by michael johnson (on mjart999.blogspot.com)
cover price 40p, south africa 95c, canada 95c, singapore $4.00, australia & new zealand $1.25
(so this printing 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)
288pp. including titles, indicia etc.
serialised in new worlds #178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183; 12/1967, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10/1968;
- concerning the availability in the nation's newsagents of such (alleged) obscenity, a question was raised in the house of commons. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)