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Author:Fletcher Pratt
Title:The Well Of The Unicorn
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Country:USA
Date:1976
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
Cat#:25012
Total Editions:3
First Published:  1948
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Fletcher Pratt - The Well Of The Unicorn - William Sloane Associates - Hardcover - USA (1948)

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ppint.
25th Feb 2019
 ballantine books mmpb 10/1979 second printing starts the transition to ballantine books' then-new del rey series, yet to become a separate imprint, with del rey in place of ballantine above the formerly ballantine fantasy logo in top fly corner of front cover, but ballantine cat# changes and new
cover art by darrell k. sweet (unsigned, though the full painting probably is, credited)
cat# 28359
isbn to 0-345-28359-7
cover price $2.25

12/1980 third printing is near-identical to the second, save author's name on front cover now in red,
cat# 29729
isbn 0-345-29729-6
cover price $2.95

2/1995 nth printing has had comprehensive front cover typography changes, added narrow band of purple for which in chief, wider red across base, greatly diminishing the effectiveness of dkst's art,
still stated ballantine,
cat# 29729
isbn 0-345-29729-6
cover price (canada 5.99) u.s.$4.99
 
 
ppint.
25th Feb 2019
 ballantine books mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
bears ballantine books' fantasy wyvern series escutcheon top fly front cover

cover art by greg hildebrandt, tim hildebrandt (signed hildebrandt, credited as the brothers hildebrandt)
b+w map by rafael palacios (signed palacios, retained from william sloane assocs. first edition h/cvr); enlarged details of this maps at beginnings of chapters
cover price $1.95
400pp. (check) including (i-)xii pages titles, indicia, 2pp. publisher's forward (presumably by lin carter), 4pp. "before the tale begins" (nf) fletcher pratt (1948), frontispiece map, etc.

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 give first ballantine books edition month & year date
 

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