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Author:	Philip José Farmer
Title:	Dark Is The Sun
Publisher:	Del Rey
Country:	USA
Date:	Sep 1979
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0345276841
Total Editions:	6
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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1st edition.
Cover by Darrell K. Sweet

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Uploaded By: David Whiteley
Description: 1st edition

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ppint. 10th Jun 2022		granada publishing panther books imprint p/b second printing cover art by mick van houten cover price £1.95, $6.95 new zealand 400pp. (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2022		granada publishing panther books imprint first uk p/b printing cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £1.95, $7.50 australia, $7.95 new zealand 400pp. (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th May 2021		ballantine books ballantine/del rey simultaneous first mmpb printings, first p/b edition cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited) cover price $2.75 (canadadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price$2.25 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 408pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer also to indica publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state paperback format/first edition: july 1980 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Sep 2020		librarians are strange creatures. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 30th Sep 2020		Since I made my comment regarding the ex library book I have spoken to an ex librarian who told me that he used to send a pile of books to be rebound and they would come back looking as good as new. He also told me that, when removing the books from stock they would tear out the title page, as it was easier when deleating the books from their system to work from a small pile of single pages rather than a stack of books. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Sep 2020		it was sop for uk public libraries to have their hardcover stock copies rebound when their original bindings began to fall apart, if the pages of the signatures were still in good condition (plus some evaluation of whether a fiction title was still popular, or a non-fiction book worth keeping in stock - perhaps being transferred to the reserve collection after rebinding, or worth keeping for other reasons): the rebinding was, i was informed, cheaper if the original dust-jacket was still in good enough condition to be used, laminated to the re-bound book's boards, than if a new cloth (''rexine'', or whatever) was required; but even the latter cost considerably less than buying a replacement new book - and that's if the book concerned was still in print. when the sainted dame hilda margaret's attack upon labour (and some tory) councils' budgets hit hard, and especially after she destroyed her bête noire of the glc°, and with it, the glc-wide london reference library (inherited mainly from the lcc°°, but also from the home counties' udcs and rdcs°°° which had been subsumed into the glc), our public library system could only be defended successfully up to a point - a point decided by the individual counties' councils (and the individual local library systems which had shared the london-wide reserve collection between them were no longer able to afford to maintain the co-operative system, which was destroyed). i don't know how much of the libraries' rebinding service survives, nor how well it is now used. ° - greater london council °° - london county council °°° - urban & rural district councils (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 14th Aug 2020		Cover info scans added from two different UK hardback editions. The one without a price is from the cover shown here, the other is from an ex library copy. The library copy has had it's boards and title page removed 10 mm chopped of the bottom of the book and cover then re-assembled using plain black boards (no aurthor or title). It seems to be a lot of work for a library to do. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Apr 2019		barcode number truncated by too-small field: 0709990025029680 cover art by darrell k. sweet, shared with the h/cvr d-j cover price $2.50 408pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Nov 2017		date is^W was incorrect, being that of the hardcover first edition. first ballantine / del rey mmpb cover price $2.25 ($2.75 canadadian first printing) isbn 0-345-28950-1 published 7/1980 this is the 11/1980 second ballantine books del rey mmpb printing: cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited) cover price $2.50 408pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Philip José Farmer - Dark Is The Sun - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 0345289501 (1980)

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Philip José Farmer - Dark Is The Sun - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 034529680X (1980)

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Philip José Farmer - Dark Is The Sun - Granada - Hardcover - UK - 0246113782 (1981)

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Philip José Farmer - Dark Is The Sun - Panther / Granada - Paperback - UK - 0586051775 (1982)

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Philip José Farmer - Dark Is The Sun - Panther / Granada - Paperback - UK - 0586051775 (1984)