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Author:Keith Laumer
Title:Envoy To New Worlds
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:Aug 1963
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:F-223
Total Editions:3
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ppint.
13th May 2021
 the first retief story was not written as being humour for simple comedic effect:
later retief stories, however...

#1: ''envoy to new worlds'' (1963), (this book)
retitled ''retief: envoy to new worlds'' (1987), q.v.
#2: ''galactic diplomat'' (1965), q.v.
#3: ''retief's war'' (1966), q.v.
#4: ''retief and the warlords'' (1968), q.v.
#5: ''retief: ambassador to space'' (1969), q.v.
#6: ''retief's ransom'' (1971), q.v.
#7: ''retief of the cdt'' (1971), q.v.
#8: ''retief: emissary to the stars'' (1975), q.v.
#8a: ''retief: emissary to the stars (revised edition)'' (1979), q.v.
#8b: ''retief: emissary to the stars (re-revised edition)'' (1986), q.v.
#9: ''retief at large'' (1978), q.v.
#10: ''retief: diplomat at arms’' (1982), q.v.
#11: ''retief to the rescue'' (1983), q.v.
#12: ''the return of retief'' (1984), q.v.
#13: ''retief in the ruins'' (1986), q.v.
#14: ''reward for retief'' (1989), q.v.
#15: ''retief and the rascals'' (1993), q.v.
 

 
ppint.
19th Feb 2019
 reprint retief collection containing two novelettes and four short stories

ace books first mmpb printing
half an "ace double"

cover art by ed emshwiller ("emsh")
cover price 40¢
256pp. including 2 x titles, indica etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves


doubled with "flight from yesterday" robert moore williams (1963), q.v.
 

 
23skidoo
6th Jan 2024
 Cover scans added (per ppint copy offers no clue as to artist).
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th May 2021
 ace books undated second mmpb printing, no longer half an ace double

cover art by ed emshwiller (retained from first, half ace double, cover art)
cover price 50¢
136pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
dated from stuart wells' ace diaries and from the ace image library
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th May 2021
 ace books third mmpb printing, but declared as second printing, bears new

cover art (unsigned, uncredited as-yet unattributed)
cover price 95¢
136pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Keith Laumer - Envoy To New Worlds - Ace - Paperback - USA (1969)
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Keith Laumer - Envoy To New Worlds - Ace - Paperback - USA (1973)

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