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Author:Jack L. Chalker
Title:Midnight At The Well Of Souls
Publisher:  Del Rey
Country:USA
Date:Jul 1977
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0345257685
Cat#:25768
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ppint.
28th Aug 2024
 well world saga (originally intended to be a trilogy) #1

#1: "midnight at the well of souls" (1977) (this book)
#2a (or #2): "exiles at the well of souls" (1978) q.v.
#2b (or #3): "quest for the well of souls" (1978) q.v.
#3a (or #4): "the return of nathan brazil" (1980) q.v.
#3b (or #5): "twilight at the well of souls: the legacy of nathan brazil" (1980) q.v.
(end of the original trilogy-in-five-paperbacks)
....
#4 (or #6): "the sea is full of stars" (1990) q.v.
#5: (or #7): "ghost of the well of souls" (2000) q.v.

n.b. the second and the fourth books in the well world saga are not complete stories: each is the first half of a novel completed in the third and fifth books in the series, respectawigglily.


the watchers at the well series:
2#1: "echoes of the well of souls" (1993) q.v.
2#2: "shadows of the well of souls" (1994) q.v.
2#3: "gods of the well of souls" (1994) q.v.
 
 
ppint.
3rd Apr 2018
 random house group ballantine books near-identical mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
del rey series

cover art by h. r. van dongen
cover price $1.95
368pp? including titles, indicia etc., end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was merkin- or canadadian- printed.
no priority established for certain, but indicia of one or more late eighties printings vary the data from that given in these two and the immediately following printings.

check also for additional printing history line stating
second printing march 1978
and for further possible addition:
third printing (october 1978 - possibly so stated)
all four of these printings, including that with canadadian-printed carcass, cover price $1.95

3/1980 fourth printing (first to retcon the canadadian-carcassed copies to 8/1977)
colour of title on front cover changed from red to yellow
isbn 0-345-29223-5
cover price $2.25

12/1980 fifth printing
colour of title on front cover changed to white
isbn 0-345-29769-5 (cover mis-states it as 0-345-39769-5, but indicia gives the correct isbn)
cover price $2.50

10/1981 sixth printing, near-identical with the fifth including the noted error
stated sixth printing in publishing history

7/1983 seventh printing, near-identical with the sixth & fifth
stated seventh printing in publishing history

12/1984 eighth printing, differs:
cover price $2.95
isbn 0-345-32445-5
stated eighth printing

.. .. ..

12/1990
background colour of strap-line/blurb above title has been changed to yellow
cover price (canada $6.50) u.s. $4.95
stated twelfth printing

(2002 sees the first baen books mmpb edition)
 
 
ppint.
5th Dec 2017
 number in isbn13 field is^W was wrong
 

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