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Author:Jack Vance
Title:City Of The Chasch
Subtitle:Planet Of Adventure #1
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:1968
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:G-688
Total Editions:4
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G-688 50 cents

cover : Jeff Jones

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Description: front cover


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ppint.
14th Oct 2018
 ace books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by jeff jones, as are b+w illustrations (credited in indicia)
2pp. b+w map of tschai (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising

spine number-string 020-07688-050, may be the abn; the last element is the cover price in cents
 

 
ppint.
14th Oct 2018
 the planet of adventure, aka "tschai" tetralogy #1:

#1: "city of the chasch" (1968), (this novel), aka "(the) chasch" (1986), q.v.
#2: "servants of the wankh" (1969), q.v., aka "wankh" (1986), aka "the wannek" (2006), qq.v.
#3: "the dirdir" (1969), q.v.
#4: "the pnume" (1970), q.v.

omnibus edition of the tetralogy:
#O: "planet of adventure" (1985 uk), q.v.
 

 
ppint.
24th Sep 2018
 the number in the isbn13 field is^W still wrong and still^W has now been deleted.

isbn13ses weren't invented for another three decades.
 

 
ppint.
13th Nov 2017
 number in the isbn13 field is^W was incorrect;
being 8 digits of the abn (sans any check digit) plus the cover price in merkin ¢:
this number-string is not an isbn, nor even an sbn.
 

 
ppint.
15th Jul 2024
 dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition (preceded by mayflower p/b edition)

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.75
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
10th Jul 2024
 daw books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed, uncredited)
2pp. b+w map of tschai (unsigned, uncredited: reprinted from the ace books mmpb edition)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.339
cover price $1.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $1.75 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution)
160pp. including titles, indicia , b+w map etc.

refer to indicia publishing history to see if the carcass of the copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1979/123456789

and to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing, which drops the first two digits from the printing number line, was wholly merkin-printed, and bears
cover price (? not as yet seen/seen reported: probably $1.75)
some copies of this bear a lengthways oval white sticker printed in black stating $1.95 price in canada
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
7th Jul 2024
 the planet of adventure, aka "tschai", aka "tschai, the planet of adventure" tetralogy #1:

#1: "city of the chasch" (this novel), aka "(the) chasch" (1986), q.v.
#2: "servants of the wankh" (1969), q.v., aka "wankh" (1986), aka "the wannek" (2006), qq.v.
#3: "the dirdir" (1969), q.v.
#4: "the pnume" (1970), q.v.

omnibus edition of the tetralogy:

#O: "planet of adventure" (1985 uk), q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
14th Oct 2018
 granada publishing group mayflower books first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by peter goodfellow (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 40p, $1.20 australia, $1.20 new zealand, $1.50 canada
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
- or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
176pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
cover bears sbn 583123406, rather than an isbn: they are arithmetically equivalent
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th Nov 2017
 o.p. please check indicia p. for printing line number-string of this daw mmpb:

if the string of sequential digits starts with "1", it will be the first printing, as well as stated to be may 1979.
daw books' third printings (& any subsequent printings) progressively drop digits (and if needs be, add digits to the end of the string, in rising order°), and may not specify a date for any but the first printing.

° - this format was later varied by some publishers to list odd and even numbers on opposite sides of a central "0": but, either way, the system of progressively dropping digits to leave the lowest remaining as the number of printings of a particular edition reached thus far is retained
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Jack Vance - City Of The Chasch - Mayflower - Paperback - UK - 0583123406 (1974)
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Jack Vance - City Of The Chasch - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879974613 (1979)
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Jack Vance - City Of The Chasch - Dennis Dobson - Hardcover - UK (1975)

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