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Author:	John Norman
Title:	Marauders Of Gor
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Mar 1975
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0879971606
Cat#:	UW1160
Total Editions:	6
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 25th Mar 2023		daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, credited) interior b+w illustrations also by kelly freas (signed & unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 141 cover price $1.50 304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, march, 1975/123456789 also to distinguish between near-identical undated reprintings up to (not including) 3/1970; cover art cat#, cover price change with 3/1970 eighth printing by number line the indicated 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th are wholly merkin-printed, for general distribution, progressively dropping numbers from the printing history number line, retrospectively deeming the canadian-carcassed first printing to have been the second printing; but by the time the 4th printing sold out, someone at new american library (who actually organised the printing, binding, distribution of daw books) noticed that the second canadian-carcassed printing had been indicated as the 2nd printing by its number line, and retrospectively deemed it to have been the 5th printing, so the 4th wholly merkin printing was followed by the 6th, as indicated by its printing number line. this problem arose repeatedly with the new american library's accounting of its own signet books imprint mmpbs as well as with the daw books mmpbs it produced: to start with, nobody noticed, and the re-printings' allocated numbers rose independently in merkia and canada; not only was it theoretically possible for separate reprintings to bear the same reprinting number, but this actually occurred quite commonly for popular titles; then someone noticed, and this method was adopted, of skipping numbers in the merkin printing number sequence to allow for canadian-carcassed reprintings that had been produced numbered on from the canadian first printing (which in the meantime had been deemed to have been the second printing in the accounting of the wholly merkin-printed reprints); this method of retrospectively skipping numbers in the merkin reprints' number line accounting was not foolproof, and it also gave rise to situations where actually simultaneous canadian and merkin reprints' numbers were wildly adrift from one another; somewhat later on, the simultaneous reprints of canadian-carcassed and wholly merkin-printed mmpbs were allocated adjacent numbers in the printing number line. all such pairs that i've been able to check have the lower of the two numbers allocated to the wholly merkin-printed reprint.



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		w. h. allen/howard & wyndham star books imprint p/b first printing, third printing of the tandem books setting, retains the tandem books isbn cover art by chris achilleos (signed with his a-in-a-circle, uncredited, retained from second tandem books printing) cover price 95p, £1.00c malta, $3.50 australia, $2.90 new zealand, $2.25 canada° 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° it seems rather unlikely that w. h. allen / howard & wyndham could distribute/have their editions distributed legally in canada, as daw books, inc. (the originating publisher) produced printings of their own mmpb specifically for canadian distribution, later canadian-merkin dual-priced mmpbs, and presumably retained the rights. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		publisher may need varying to universal, depending on the imprint on the title page. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		howard & wyndham/w. h. allen tandem books (universal imprint on front cover) p/b second printing with new cover art by chris achilleos (signed with his a-in-a-circle) cover price 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising may bear a w, w-in-a--box, stylised w-in-a-box or stylised w logo on the back cover (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		tandem books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed cover price 60p (overseas territories prices?) 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		this could well have been the last daw books printing of ''marauders of gor''; ten years was a pretty common duration of the licence granted by authors or their agents to publish a book. 8/1998 saw the publication of the first masquerade books edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		daw books mmpb seventeenth printing, cover redesign retains cover art by richard hescox, severely cropped to fit new cover design b+w interior illustrations by (frank) kelly freas retained cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 300pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		daw books mmpb undated° eighth printing by indicia publishing history number line, with new cover art by richard hescox (signed with his stylised logo, credited) interior b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas retained from earlier printings cover price $1.75 300pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° date taken from locus refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from near-identical further printings: also cat# and isbn change with rising cover price: ninth UE1295 $1.75 0-87997-295-5 tenth UJ1369 $1.95 0-87997-369-2 near-meaningless daw books collector no. dropped from front cover eleventh UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 twelfth UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 thirteenth UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 fourteenth UE1676 $2.75 0-87997-676-4 fifteenth UE1676 $2.75 0-87997-676-4 sixteenth UE1901 $2.95 0-87997-901-1 3/1985 cover redesign, cover art by richard hescox retained but cropped to fit new design: seventeenth UE2025 (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 0-88677-025-4 this seventeenth printing may well be the last daw books mmpb printing of ''marauders of gor'' (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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John Norman - Marauders Of Gor - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879972955 (1977)

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John Norman - Marauders Of Gor - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0886770254 (1985)

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John Norman - Marauders Of Gor - Tandem - Paperback - UK - 042617531X (1976)

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John Norman - Marauders Of Gor - Tandem - Paperback - UK - 042617531X (1977)

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John Norman - Marauders Of Gor - Star - Paperback - UK - 042617531X (1979)