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Author:Michael Moorcock
Title:The Sword Of The Dawn
Publisher:  Mayflower
Country:UK
Date:1972
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:583114342
Cat#:11434
Total Editions:7
First Published:  1968
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Michael Moorcock - The Sword Of The Dawn - Mayflower - Paperback - UK (1969)

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ppint.
11th Oct 2020
 third mayflower books uk p/b printing with new cover art
number in isbn10 field is the sbn; an isbn is trivially constructed, but the cover bears none such
printing history states reprinted 1969, reprinted 1972

cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, uncredited until later printing°)
cover price 30p, south africa 75c, singapore $3.00, australia & new zealand 95c, canada 95c
144pp. including titles, indica etc,

further reprinted with rising cover prices 1973 (4th), 1974 (5th), 1975 (6th), 1977 (7th), 1980 (8th printing)
sbn on front cover changes to isbn c. 1977 - 80 (which, to be confirmed) and some variation in the typography on the front cover.

one of the 1975, 77 or 1980 printings almost certainly exists in a second state, undistributed copies having had their front & back covers cut off, but not the spine, and a new whole cover with higher prices glued onto the old spine, before the resultant chimaera being trimmed by guillotine: it is thus shorter and the whole book, covers and carcass, less wide - as well as having two card spines (easy to spot, if checked-for). it is also distinctly ''unhandy'' - uncomfortable to read - as the pages turn from the inside of the original spine, about ⅛'' in from the outer spine, not where the new card cover turns from. (it may've been botched up just before the 9th printing, and bear the new cover art; i didn't note this at the time.)

cover art changes with 1981 (9th printing) to richard clifton-dey, possibly with change of ownership of granada publishing group to wm. collins and name to grafton books in 1984 (10th printing), retained for 1986 (11th printing); all from same typesetting.


(° the firefrogproductions.co.uk website collection of bob haberfield's covers seems no longer to exist)
 

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