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Author:H. Beam Piper
Title:Space Viking
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:Dec 1980
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0441777791
Cat#:77779-1
Total Editions:6
First Published:  1963
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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Ace - Paperback - USA (1963)

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ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 according to the spiffy ace books five-digit system, cat# should've been increased by 1 from the previous printing, to 77782 (with consequent (i)sbn (0-)441-77782-1);
however this cat# had already been allocated to ''space visitor'' by mack reynolds (8/1977), q.v. (and ((0-)441-)77783(-X) to the second printing of this), possibly by mistake - and definitely outwith the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system;

a quick manglement flail around evidently spotted 77779 as being unused, which was still unsystematic - the choice should've gone to a completely unused block of five (or even ten) adjacent cat#s commencing in a terminal ''0'' or a ''5'' (- or arguably, a partly-used block not reserved for another title's reprintings, commencing in a terminal ''2'', to follow on from the terminal ''1'' of 77781) - but it wasn't.

and, rather than follow this with 77778, counting down (- well, why not? -) from the anomalous 77779,
the next known printing was allocated 77784, with consequent isbn 0-441-77784-8, 9/1983;
but its cover is sufficiently different from all of the preceding three michael whelan-covered printings, by virtue of the art being reproduced reversed left-right, in mirror image, to definitely constitute a new bookcat item.
 
 
ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb, fourth printing by number line
(third printing of this c. 1/1977 standard format p/b edition, after small pocketbook format first edition)

front cover typography re-designed in larger, (viking in panoramic) font, retains the two earlier printings'
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited)
cat# 77779
indicia publishing history adds line stating
this printing december 1980
cover price $2.25
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
 

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