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Author:	Gregory Kern
Title:	Galaxy Of The Lost
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Sep 1973
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	UT 1073
Total Editions:	3
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ppint. 20th Apr 2020		daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition sharing merkin-printed covers and cover art and b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (both signed "jg", cover credited) cover price 75¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first printing, september 1973 bearing full first printing number-string 123456789 one of the very few daw books to bear so low a cover price, hence the nal letter "T" in the cat# prefix



ppint. 31st Aug 2019		"gregory kern"' is a house name, originally a pen-name used by e. c. "ted" tubb alone, upon the first seventeen "cap kennedy" "pulp super hero" style series short novels commissioned from him by don wollheim and published by his daw books, inc. the ''gregory kern'' house name was later also used by hans joachim alpers, horst gehrmann (''h.g. ewers''), ronald m. hahn, hans peschke, horst pukallus, manfred wegener, and mario werder. published in the uk: as "f.a.t.e." series, for "free acting terran envoy": #1-6 only: #7 & 8, though advertised by mews/nel as forthcoming, with publication dates, are "bookcat unicorns".) germany: german language translations as the "commander scott" series°: numbering sequence may differ: #1: "galaxy of the lost" (1973) (this book) #2: "slave ship from sergan" (1973), q.v. #3: "monster of metelaze" (1973), q.v. #4: "enemy within the skull" (1974), q.v. #5: "jewel of jarhen" (1974), q.v. #6: "seetee alert!" (1974), q.v. #7: "the gholan gate" (1974), q.v. #8: "the eater of worlds" (1974), q.v. #9: "earth enslaved" (1974), q.v. #10: "planet of dread" (1974), q.v. #11: "spawn of laban" (1974), q.v. #12: "the genetic buccaneer" (1974), q.v. #13: "a world aflame" (1974), q.v. #14: "the ghosts of epidoris" (1975), q.v. #15: "mimics of dephene" (1975), q.v. (#16): "beyond the galactic lens" (1975), q.v. this doesn't have a cap kennedy series uniform cover design, nor bear its series #16 - and is the first to bear a near-meaningless daw books / collector number, #176. (#17): "the galactiad" (in german, bastei, germany 1976) (daw mmpb 1983), q.v. this also doesn't have a cap kennedy series uniform cover design, nor bear its series #17 - and it, too, bears a near-meaningless daw books collector number, #539. ° the "commander scott" series was continued by bastei in germany, who published the series in a digest format, commissioning twenty-five original stories from a stable of local authors, starting with "der psi-spion" 6/1975. the martial or militaristic tones of the original english language editions was reportedly reduced somewhat in their german language editions, as it was also, in the commander scott series german originals.



ppint. 29th Feb 2024		f.a.t.e./cap kennedy series #1: the cap kennedy series was published in the uk renamed the f.a.t.e. (''free acting terran envoy'') series: #1: ''galaxy of the lost'' (daw books 1973), q.v. for series listing, and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Aug 2020		mews books p/b first printing, first uk edition number in isbn10 field is the sbn actually borne by this edition, compatible with isbn10s cover art by tim white (reproduced w/o typography entitled ''the humming ship'' in ''the science fiction and fantasy art of tim white'' (1981), q.v.) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed ''jg'', retained from daw books first edition mmpb) cover price 40p, 42½p rep. of ireland, pts105 spain, 45p gibraltar, 45c malta, 450 mils cyprus, $1.25 australia, $1.25 new zealand, $2.40 trinidad (w.i.), $1.50, canada 112pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Gregory Kern - Galaxy Of The Lost - Mews - Paperback - UK - 452000033 (1976)

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Gregory Kern - Dödens Stjärna - Lindfors - Paperback - Sweden (1974)