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BookJack Vance - The Last Castle - Ace - Paperback - USA (1967)
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| ppint. 2nd May 2022 | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb, second(?) solo mmpb printing previously published as half an ''ace double'' twice, paired with different sf novellas, so fourth(?) ace mmpb printing over-all cover art by rucker (signed, uncredited; artist not so far further identified) cover price $1.50 112pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia publishing history does not give printing or publication date: this taken from end pp. advertising according to the ace books five-digit catalogue numbering system, this printing was preceded by two, one with cat# 47071; this is near-identical, but for cover price 95¢ and bears no publication or printing date, and this should have been preceded by one cat# 47070; but i've not held, nor seen record of, one with this cat#. the ace books five-digit cat# system started in january 1969, and as there is an ace double including ''the last castle'' (in 1972, reprinted in 1973), this may have been taken as ''counting as'' 47070 even though it bears cat# 16640 (when reprinted this duly rose to cat# 16641); the much earlier number in the five-digit system was assigned for the ''d'' of ''the dragon masters'' in the double; it's in the block of numbers covers titles beginning with the letters ''c'' & ''d'' (ignoring the opening ''the''). under a later owner - grosset & dunlap bought charter communications, inc., a bit later and put in time, work, cash and effort and turned it round and eventually were bought by the berkley publishing group - in/from january 1994 the ace five-digit cat# allocating system collapsed, presumably because the new new manglement had only the haziest of ideas of how it'd been designed to work, and the faintest idea of the system's design. hitherto unassigned numbers were now allotted to new titles and new editions from the first number block (from 00000 - 09999) irrespective of these new titles' first significant letters. (mistakes were made from time-to-time before this collapse, but really quite amazingly few for so obscure, non-transparent and ''unintuitive'' a system.) | |
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