daw books near-identical first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first omnibus edition
#1: dedication: "dedicated to hanna, my mother, who loved the old songs--- who remembered . . ."
#2: dedication: "to sime and senia"
cover art by jordi penalva (credited to penalva)
b+w illustration by jack gaughan (signed "jg")
224pp including 8pp titles, indicia etc; 2nd title p, etc: pp.113-118; 2 end pp.adverts: 1p five ken bulmer writing as "alan burt akers" "dray prescott"/"scorpio" series kregan sequence titles I-V; 1p 8 assorted titles from cat#s UJ1378-1413, UE1417, UW1398-1412, plus mail-order formlet
cover price $2.25 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $1.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies)
refer also to indicia to check whether carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed;
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1979/123456799
title on title page is:
"saga of lost earths and the star mill"
reference copy provided courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront