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ppint. 7th Dec 2017
| | the 2/1965 first canadadian mmpb printing is almost identical:
refer to the indica to see if carcase/"book" of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed. |
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ppint. 7th Dec 2017
| | ballantine books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
268-272pp?° including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (° - i failed to note this) |
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024
| | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023
| | collier macmillan collier nucleus mmpb(?)° first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by paul lehr (unsigned (?), credited iirc; recognisable from the style)
cover price $4.95
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - small p/b format, but may've been a trade edition (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023
| | random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous fourth printings (so-stated)
the accounting of ballantine mmpbs' printings seems to've got a bit out of synch with itself. . .
cover art by boris vallejo (unsigned, credited; unsigned because shot up and then cropped to fit covers from the previous ballantine books mmpb printings)
cover price $3.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed;
no priority established nor liable to be, both state fourth us printing: november 1982 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023
| | random house group ballantine books mmpb fourth printings° sharing new cat#, isbn,
cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris, credited)
cover price $1.50
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
° - seems to retrospectively be accounting the first canadadian printing as the third printing over-all, despite its having been the second-printed...†‡
† - ''publishers!. . .''‡
‡ - unless the wholly merkin-printed variant of this printing has been misidentified, and should've been recorded as ballantine books third merkin mmpb printing. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023
| | random house group ballantine books mmpb second merkin printing, third printing over-all
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; unsigned only because circle-cropped from the usage on the two first printings)
cover price $1.25
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Aug 2021
| | dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by richard weaver
cover d-j) price 25/-
268pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc. sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 12th Jan 2020
| | penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 25p 5/-, R0.60 south africa, $0.85 australia, $0.75 new zealand
so this edition 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
272pp?(check this!) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 4th Jul 2019
| | w. h. allen & co. star imprint first p/b printing, not first uk p/b
cover art by colin hay (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from www.chameleon-arts.com/colin-hay)
cover price 75p, 80c malta, $2.65 australia, $2.50 new zealand
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
268pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(cover art is wildly inappropriate to this beautiful book) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 15th Feb 2019
| | st. martins press h/cvr first printing, first edition of this novel: preceded the ballantine books mmpb
cover (d-j) art by "m.k." (signed, not further identified sfaik), design by robert finegold (credited)
cover (d-j) price $4.95 on d-j front flap
including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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