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Author:	Jack Vance
Title:	Emphyrio
Publisher:	Doubleday
Country:	USA
Date:	1969
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Science Fiction, Fiction
Total Editions:	8
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ppint. ● 19th Apr 2018		doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition has gutter code K20 on p.261 indicating a 5/1969 printing date, so published c. 7/1969 cover (dust-jacket) art be paul covington (credited on rear flap) cover (dust-jacket) price $4.95 266pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards



ppint. ● 13th Jul 2022		byron preiss' ibooks imprint tp/b first printing, not first p/b edition cover art by jim burns cover price $11.95 (? canadian price, possibly also a uk price?) 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. text likely supplied by the vance integral edition project (check for presence of a credit for this) distributed by & manufacture via simon & schuster/pocket books, hence pocket books group isbn (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 29th Apr 2022		orion millennium/victor gollancz gollancz sf masterworks #19 b-format p/b printings first printing 1999, second impression 2000 - at least five printings; cover typography changes, cover art is reversed l-r, colour balance varies; but the isbn10 (later isbn13) identity is retained cover art by chris moore cover price £6.99 208 or 216pp? (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. refer to indica publishing history to see which printing is held read and double-check the indica publishing history printing history and compare the tale of impressions, printings/reprints and new editions with the printing number-line, where there is one, which applies to the edition listed most immediately above the number line. the cover image provided does not appear to be of the first 1999 p/b, nor of the 2000 second impression, nor of the undated fifth printing by number-line; which are all much less brown and from which the same chris moore art on this cover has been reversed left-right. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 29th Apr 2022		daw books simultaneous near-identical mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first p/b edition (was dell books mmpb) cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited) interior b+w art by jack gaughan (signed with his jg monogram/digraph) cover price $2.50 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $2.25 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) near-meaningless daw books collector no.365 208pp? (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. refer to publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing december 1979 and bear full first printing number line (123456789) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 29th Apr 2022		serialised in fantastic vol.18 #5, #6; 6/1969 with two, 8/1969, one, b+w illustrations by bruce jones (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 29th Apr 2022		hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by ''nick fox'' pseudonym of nick bantock (signed fox) cover price £1.10 (no other territories' prices) 224pp. including titles, indica, b+w map (unsigned, uncredited) etc, end pp. advertising indica publishing history mistakenly asserts first published in the united states 1979 by daw books (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 29th Apr 2022		the isbn13 is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted the isbn13 was not invented (or defined) nor used for another two-three decades. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 19th Apr 2018		bantam doubleday dell group dell books imprint simultaneous first mmpb printings, first p/b edition, sharing cat#, merkin-printed covers and cover art by jeff jones (art is reportedly signed) cover price 75¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see if the carcass of the copy held was merkin- or canadadian- printed. no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first dell printing---september 1970 (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Heyne - Paperback - Germany (1971)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879975040 (1979)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Dell - Paperback - USA (1970)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Orion - Paperback - UK - 185798885X (1999)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Spatterlight Press - Paperback - USA - 161947090X (2016)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Ibooks - Paperback - USA - 0743497759 (2004)

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Jack Vance - Emphyrio - Coronet Books/Hodder And Stoughton - Paperback - UK - 0340260971 (1980)