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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | george allen & unwin h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by tony raymond (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap is very fine and extremely striking)
cover (d-j) price 45s. (check: may have risen during life of print run, and may've started off c. 25s.)
276pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map iirc (check), illustration(s) etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards |
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ppint. 4th Jan 2023
| | e. p. dutton & co. h/cvr first printing, first merkin trade h/cvr edition
(preceded by the 1971 merkin science fiction book club h/cvr edition for sale to club members only:
not for sale to the general public nor distribution by way of trade via wholesalers nor to retailers)
cover (d-j) art by herbert danska (signed danska, looks more like ''denska'')
cover (d-j) price $7.95
280pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by frank frazetta (signed, credited; re-used from doubleday sfbc h/cvr d-j art (1971))
cover price $3.50
284pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly b+w map (also check) etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | george allen & unwin unicorn imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by steve weston (misattributed as ''steve western'')
cover price £2.50
280?/284?pp. (oddly-numbered, re-check) including b+w map, titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | random house ballantine books imprint mmpb third ballantine books printing
cover art by greg hildebrandt, tim hildebrandt (signed)
cover price $1.95
288pp? (check: may drop the lin carter foreword & essay) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | random house ballantine books imprint mmpb simultaneous second ballantine printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by ian miller (unsigned, miscredited as ''ian millar'')
cover price $1.25
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map (possibly also b+w illustrations - check), foreword & essay by lin carter (1971), 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 second printing november 1973
(and give the month of both first printings as march 1971) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | the nine-digit number given in the isbn10 field above is the sbn actually borne in this edition's indicia.
an isbn is trivially derivable from this, but neither of the first mmpb printings of this book bears one. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 23rd Nov 2022
| | pearson/penguin group puffin books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art (unsigned, iirc, may be credited - check)
cover price 30p, 85c australia, 85c new zealand, $1.25 canada
276pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w (map iirc), illustrations (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Aug 2019
| | ballantine books near-identical simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by bob pepper
cat# 02178
cover price 95¢
288pp? (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction & essay by lin carter, b+w map etc, end pp.
refer to indicia publishing history to see if "book" (carcase of book) was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing
but as pearson/penguin group apparently picked up the canadian rights from george allen & unwin for their 1973 puffin uk & commonwealth p/b edition, ballantine books prob'ly did not have exclusive canadadian p/b rights - or one publishing house or t'other made a mistake. and repeated it in 1973. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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