daw books first mmpb printings, simultaneous first mmpb edition
cover art by michael whelan (credited on back cover and on indica page)
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 941
cover price (canada $6.99) • u.s. $5.99
532pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia etc, 9 end pp: 2pp. pronunciation, 3pp. glossary, 4pp. advertising
refer to printing history number line to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority in publication date established nor liable to be, but canadian carcasses drop the initial digit '1' ceding priority to the merkin-printed, as was the daw/nal rule from 10/1980-early 1990s.
doubleday science fiction book club h/cvr, not first h/cvr edition
produced for sale only to members of the sfbc initially, then to members of any doubleday book club
cover (d-j) art by michael whelan (credited on d-j back flap, shared from daw h/cvr & mmpb editions)
cover price (none; initially sold to sfbc members at $6.98)
336pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, two blank end pp, sewn in signatures and quarter-bound with endpapers in black with title, author, daw logo blocked in silver on the spine, between grey paper-covered boards
n.b. also retains daw isbn, logo, on d-j, title page, indica, as (in)appropriate: adds sfbc cat# on back of d-j near bottom spine corner, does not state first printing, date and drops indica printing history number line completely; and further n.b. pagination extent much smaller than daw books h/cvr first edition's 384pp. - i.e. the science fiction book club edition has been re-set.
the bar-code number is truncated by the too-small field, in full it is 9780886775902 90000> (this comment is from another edition of this book)
the trilogy structuring of the series was then dropped:
#10: ''conspirator'' (2009), q.v.
#11: ''deceiver'' (2010), q.v.
#12: ''betrayer'' (2011), q.v.
#13: ''intruder'' (2012), q.v.
#14: ''protector'' (2013), q.v.
#15: ''peacemaker'' (2014), q.v.
#16: ''tracker'' (2015), q.v.
#17: ''visitor'' (2016), q.v.
#18: ''convergence'' (2017), q.v.
#19: ''emergence'' (2018), q.v.
#20: ''resurgence'' (2020), q.v.
#21: ''divergence'' (2020), q.v.
#22: ''defiance'' (2023), q.v., by c. j. cherryh, jane s. fancher (this comment is from another edition of this book)
random house uk/arrow legend imprint a-format p/b first printing, may be first uk edition°
(legend imprint, catalogue were shortly sold to little, brown uk and folded into the orbit books imprint)
cover art by michael whelan (credited on back cover, re-used from the daw books h/cvr and mmpb editions)
cover price £5.99, $12.95 aus(tralia)
384pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 7 end pp: 2pp. on pronunciation, 3pp. glossary, 1p. advertising the british fantasy society, 1 blank p.
° - i've seen a 1994 legend imprint uk yp/b listed, but i've never held nor even seen any such edition (this comment is from another edition of this book)