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ppint. 21st Sep 2019
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aka "all the colours of darkness" (uk 1963 & ff.), q.v. for series listing, and links. |
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ppint. 18th Aug 2019
| | paperback library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by hoot von zitzewitz (signed "hootvz", uncredited)
cover price 50¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc. |
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ppint. 11th Jan 2023
| | bart books p/b first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited; not sfaik as-yet attributed
cover price $3.50, $4.50 canada
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
cover states ''lloyd biggle, jrs' classic'' instead of ''... jr.'s'', above the title, and bears the larger puff-line, ''a jan darzek adventure / the great / private eye of the future / in his greatest casel'' - failing to state that is the first jan darzek novel out of five. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 11th Jan 2023
| | paperback library mmpb simultaneous second printings
cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price 60¢
176pp. 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 second printing: august 1968 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 19th Jun 2022
| | j. m. dent & sons readers union group science fiction book club imprint h/cvr, not first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by john griffith (a number of his tree-rings/retina scans in reddish brown on a white field)
cover (d-j) price 6/-
216pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 15th May 2022
| | new english library p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited (believed probably by ray feibush, known to not be by bruce pennington)
cover price 40p, 42½p republic of ireland, pts105 spain, 45p. gibraltar, 45c malta, 450 mils cyprus, $1.25 australia, $1.25 new zealand, $2.40 trinidad (w.i.)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 3rd Aug 2020
| | author should^W has been emended to "lloyd biggle jr.", his most-commonly publshed by-line, so this will now sort together with the other editions. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Aug 2019
| | jan darzek series #1:
#1: "all the colo(u)rs of darkness" (1963) (this novel)
#2: "watchers of the dark" (1966), q.v.
#3: "this darkening universe" (1975), q.v.
#4: "silence is deadly" (1977), q.v.
#5: "the whirligig of time" (1979), q.v.
"whom the gods love" (short story) the magazine of fantasy & science fiction vol.41 #5, 11/1971,
is a jan darzek story sfaiaa nor in any bigglecollection, nor as yet anthologized. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 21st Apr 2018
| | penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art (photographic, of ?plastic? sculpture) by dennis jackson (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 4/-
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
being published in the uk, has a "u" in the book's title, as is quite right and perfectly proper english... (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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