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Author:	Fritz Leiber
Title:	A Spectre Is Haunting Texas
Publisher:	Victor Gollancz
Country:	UK
Date:	1969
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0575003898
Total Editions:	5
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ppint. ● 25th Feb 2025		victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition cover d-j art none; typographical in black & magenta on "gollancz yellow" field cover d-j price 30/- £1.50 248pp. (check) sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between red cloth-covered boards



ppint. ● 25th Feb 2025		granada group granada imprint first printing, second uk p/b edition/printing over-all retains the granada group mayflower books isbn but bears new imprint, and new cover art by richard clifton-dey (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $5.25 new zealand 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 25th Feb 2025		the second word really is spelled "specter" in merkin english, and should^W has been changed back to this - it's spelled "specter" on all the merkin editions i've seen° ° - though not, of course, on or in the english editions. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 25th Feb 2025		daw books simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) near-meaningless daw books collector number 278 cover price $1.95 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see if the carcass of the copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, february, 1978/123456789 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 25th Feb 2025		serialised in galaxy vol.26 #6, vol.27 #1, #2; 7/1968, 8/1968, 9/1968 as "a specter is haunting texas" part one is the cover story; parts 1 & 2 have 7 b+w illustrations each, part 3 has 6; all by jack gaughan (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 6th Jun 2019		granada group mayflower books first printing, first uk p/b edition, first p/b edition cover art by richard clifton-dey (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/2869; may be in error for the new art on the 1981 granada printing) cover price 30p, 75c south africa, 95c australia, 90c new zealand, 95c canada 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 224pp.including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 6th Dec 2017		first book publication 1969 (walker & co. merkin first edition h/cvr), not 1968 (with merkin spelling, ''specter'', in title and throughout). (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Fritz Leiber - A Spectre Is Haunting Texas - Mayflower - Paperback - UK - 583119344 (1971)

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Fritz Leiber - A Spectre Is Haunting Texas - The Science Fiction Book Club / Readers Union - Hardcover - UK (1970)

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Fritz Leiber - A Specter Is Haunting Texas - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879973595 (1978)

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Fritz Leiber - A Spectre Is Haunting Texas - Granada - Paperback - UK - 0583119344 (1981)