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Author:	Jack Vance
Title:	Showboat World
Publisher:	Pyramid
Country:	USA
Date:	Mar 1975
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0515036986
Cat#:	V3698
Total Editions:	6
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 24th Aug 2018		harcourt brace pyramid books imprint near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by vincent difate (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see whether carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed. no priority established nor liable to be, both stating pyramid edition published march 1985 sequel to "big planet" (1957), q.v.



ppint. 22nd Jul 2018		number in isbn13 field is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted. isbn13ses weren't invented yet then, and it's wrongly formed & composed anyway.



ppint. 16th Feb 2024		i sold the omnibus giant-size (?or anabas large?) poster of ''ether stream'', the painting, in IMT lancaster (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Feb 2024		thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art is ''the ether stream'' by rodney matthews (was a poster; print/giclée was available: his website) isbn 0-812-50092-X can(ada) cover price can(ada) $4.95 cover price u.s. $3.95 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Feb 2024		complete bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 9 780340 212523 90125 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Feb 2024		daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition, sharing merkin-printed covers° cover art by david b. mattingly (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece also by mattingly (signed with his initials) near-meaningless daw books collector no.453 ° cover price $2.50 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel ° cover price $2.25 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, frontispiece, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority in publication date established nor liable to be, but printing line drops the first digit, ''1'' leaving /23456789 formally identifying this as the second printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Oct 2022		victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by peter elson (signed with his initials in line-drawn box) cover price £3.50 176pp. (check; also for presence/absence of b+w map) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Oct 2022		hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b second printing completely new front cover typography much larger type-size, authors name in line-drawn box adds bar-code &c. box to back cover cover art by jim burns (unsigned, retained from coronet books first printing) cover price £1.25 (no other territory's price) 176pp? (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising indicia publishing history adds line, reprinted 1982 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Apr 2019		hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by jim burns (uncredited, unsigned; collected in "lightship" (1985), q.v.) cover price 65p, $2.15 australia, $2.10 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 176pp? (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end p. advertising distinguish from near-identical 1982 second printing retains isbn of first printing: cover price £1.25 refer to indicia for absence of line stating reprinted 1982 indicating it is the second printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Jack Vance - Showboat World - Coronet Books - Paperback - UK - 0340212527 (1977)

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Jack Vance - Showboat World - Coronet - Paperback - UK - 0340212527 (1982)

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Jack Vance - Showboat World - VGSF - Paperback - UK - 0575043938 (1990)

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Jack Vance - Showboat World - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879976608 (1981)

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Jack Vance - Showboat World - Tor - Paperback - USA - 0812500938 (1989)