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Author:	Michael Moorcock
Title:	Elric Of Melniboné
Publisher:	Hutchinson
Country:	UK
Date:	Sep 1972
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0091121000
Total Editions:	10
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ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		hutchinson & co. publishers h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by laurence cutting (unsigned, uncredited sfaik; attributed in ''the tanelorn archive'' richard bilyeu (1981), q.v., and in ''elric: the sleeping sorceress'' michael moorcock (2008), q.v.) cover (d-j) price 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards



ppint. ● 5th Aug 2023		collins group° grafton books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in cartouche on stonework under elric's left knee, credited on back cover, re-used from ''elric at the end of time'' michael moorcock (daw mmpb 1985) iirc) cover price £2.99 (?any overseas territories prices? (check)) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - after a bitterly-resisted takeover battle, rupert ''the dirty digger'''s news corporation added wm collins sons/the collins group to that truly fine merkin's swag-bag during 1989; so at least the subsequent reprints were published by harpercollinspublishers' grafton books or grafton imprint: 1989 second printing cover price £2.99 1990 third printing 1990 fourth printing (?1991?) fifth printing sixth printing (in, or more likely a bit before, 1993 - when nick austin was used to get (most of) his mate, michael moorcock's books' uk rights to orion - and then sacked.) cover price £3.99 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		iirc, the 1985 sixth printing is near-identical with this 1983 printing, save cover price £1.95 indicia publishing history notes the additional reprinting and one or other of them introduces a price, isbn bar-code & bar-code number block on the back cover (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		berkley putnam publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by robert gould (signed with his stylised initials) in uniform cover design for these berkley books mmpb moorcock titles cover price $2.50 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books imprint p/b fourth printing with new cover art by julek heller (unsigned, uncredited; the artist's website no longer exists°; re-used on ''the year's best fantasy 12'' ed. arthur w. saha (daw mmpb 1986), where it is credited; also reproduced sans typography in ''heroic dreams'' nigel suckling (paper tiger 1987), where it is credited, q.v.) b+w map age of the young kingdoms by james cawthorn (unsigned, prob'ly still credited (check)) cover price £1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map, etc, end pp. advertising ° - julek heller was born in jerusalem on 11 october 1944, in the league of nations british mandate of palestine; he came to the uk - to london - in 1947 as a refugee - presumably with his parents. it is unfortunately quite likely that his website has been allowed to lapse after death: ( - though n.b. i do not know for certain; but) he would appear to have died late december 2018: a memorial service was held at a crematorium in north london for a julek heller who seems to've been the same person. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		london weekend television° hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b third printing with new cover art by (unsigned, uncredited, looks strongly like joe petagno's work to yr hmbl srppnt.) b+w map of the young kingdoms by james cawthorn (unsigned, prob'ly still credited (check)) cover price 80p, $2.70 australia, $2.50 new zealand, $2.75 canada 192pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising ° - check dates vs. cheetham's takeover (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b second printing, with new cover art by (unsigned, uncredited) b+w map of the young kingdoms by james cawthorn (unsigned, prob'ly still credited (check)) cover price 45p, 50c malta, $1.40 australia, $1.06 new zealand, $1.75 canada 192pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map by james cawthorn, etc, end pp advertising indicia publishing history adds line stating this edition 1975 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 4th Aug 2023		lancer books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, unauthorisédly-altered text, first thus cover art by charles moll (signed with stylised initials, uncredited)° cover price 95¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if the carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be; both give only the copyright year ° - elric is quite clearly, and on more than one occasion, described as being an albino; the artist being unfamiliar with albinism, he bothered to look up the meaning of the word: unfortunately the merkin dictionary referred to described or characterised it as a skin condition afflicting particularly negros. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 11th Nov 2020		Added wraparound cover. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 27th Jun 2019		title is^W was still wrong and final word should^W still^W has been corrected to end with an ''é'' (e with an acute accent) as per the cover image. edit: 18/4/2020: title has been corrected hutchinson group arrow books imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition of author's text cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed b+w map by james cawthorn (unsigned, credited in notes) cover price 35p, malta 40c, australia $1.20, new zealand $1.20, canada $1.35 192pp. including titles, indicia, map, etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Apr 2018		"elric of melniboné", elric series/saga #1°; #1: ''elric of melniboné'' (1972) (this novel) #1a: ''the dreaming city'' (us 1973, 1975), q.v.° #1.5: "the citadel of forgotten myths" (2022), q.v. #2: "the sailor on the seas of fate" (1976), q.v. #3: "the weird of the white wolf" (1977), q.v. #4: "the sleeping sorceress" (1971), q.v., aka "the vanishing tower" (1977), q.v. #5: "the bane of the black sword" (1977), q.v. #6: "stormbringer" (1965), q.v. #7: "the fortress of the pearl" (1989), q.v. #8: "the revenge of the rose" (1991), q.v. (#9: "elric: the return to melniboné (1973) (20pp)) and various other permutations and collectedumberations. . . including: "the stealer of souls" (1963), q.v. (all four novelettes & short story are elric series stories) "the singing citadel" (1970), q.v. (only the title novelette & "master of chaos" are elric stories) the elric series stories in these two collections were reordered and reorganised, and some somewhat rewritten or restored, sometimes retitled, by moorcock into the new titles #3 & #5 in the series. ... not to mention "omnibi". . .°° ° - n.b. the lancer books mmpb of this novel, published as "the dreaming city" (1973) was cut and otherwise altered as well as being retitled without the author's permission or approval. it also makes no mention of the hutchinson & co. 1972 hardcover first edition in either of its two printings' indicia. °° - with apologies as may be required to a. d. godley, sole proprietor of "the motor bus" (1914), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 14th Nov 2017		publisher should not have^W have had " 1973 " in its name. 1972 first edition hardcover publishers, hutchinson & co. arrow is/was hutchinson & co.'s main p/b imprint. title should end in an "é" ("e-acute"), making it a voiced or pronounced vowel, and the word accordingly pronounced "mel-ni-bo-neigh", and not " mel-ni-bown ". (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Michael Moorcock - Elric Of Melniboné - Arrow - Paperback - UK - 0099077906 (1973)

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Michael Moorcock - Elric Of Melnibone - Daw - Paperback - USA (1978)

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Michael Moorcock - Elric Of Melnibone - Daw - Paperback - USA (1976)

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Michael Moorcock - Elric Of Melniboné - Arrow - Paperback - UK - 0099077906 (1983)

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