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Author:	Anne McCaffrey
Title:	Crystal Singer
Publisher:	Del Rey
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1982
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	813.54
Genre:	Science Fiction, Music, Fiction
ISBN-10:	0345285980
Cat#:	28598
Total Editions:	3
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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First paperback edition, released same year as hardcover first edition, which was titled The Crystal Singer. First book in the Crystal Singer trilogy. 314 pages.

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ppint. 18th Jan 2021		simultaneous del rey/ballantine books first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by michael whelan (credited) cover price $3.50 (canadadian-carcassed copies for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $2.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: august 1982 320pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer also to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian-printed and also to distinguish from near-identical 8/1982 second merkin printing & 12/1982 fourth merkin printing (both $2.95) and 1/1983 second canadian printing ($3.75), all of which retain the first edition's cat# and isbn (and possibly also a third merkin printing, unless the first canadian printing was accounted the second overall printing by ballantine books, inc. - or the second canadian printing the third overall printing, even though the second canadian printing is dated the month after the merkin fourth printing.) (''publishers!'')



ppint. 13th Aug 2021		severn house first h/cvr printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by rob burt (shared with transworld publishers corgi books first p/b printing) cover (d-j) price £6.95 304pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Aug 2021		the severn house h/cvr first edition cover (d-j) art is by rob burt, and this is shared on this transworld publishers corgi books imprint first uk p/b printings.° ° - post 4th or 5th (?) uk p/b printings bear completely different cover art, possibly by chris moore(?). (this comment is from another edition of this book)



23skidoo 13th Jul 2020		Some editions of this book such as the 1982 Del Rey US edition, omit "The" from the title. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Jun 2018		killashandra, crystal singer trilogy #1: #1: ''the crystal singer'' (1982) (this novel) aka ''crystal singer'' (us 1982 & ff.), q.v. #2: "killashandra" (1985), q.v. #3: "crystal line" (1992), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #0: ''the crystal singer trilogy'' (1996), q.v. aka ''the crystal singer omnibus'' (uk 1999), q.v. set in the crystal singer universe, but i do not know whether set before, during or after the main trilogy: ''the coelura'' (1983), q.v. a novella also published as half of a ''double'' with a dragons of pern novella: ''nerilka's story & the coelura'' (1987), q.v. ''nimisha's ship'' (1998), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Anne McCaffrey - The Crystal Singer - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 0552120979 (1983)

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Anne McCaffrey - The Crystal Singer - Severn House - Hardcover - UK - 0727820222 (1982)