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Author:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Title:	City Of Illusions
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1978
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0441107044
Cat#:	10704
Total Editions:	9
First Published:	1967
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bears ace / charter communications (i)sbn ((0-) publisher identifier 441- cat# 10704 - 4 checksum digit)

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Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions - Ace - Paperback - USA (1967)

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ppint. 15th Jun 2023		it appears that, for a while (?), grosset & dunlap (or charter communications, inc.) misunderstood (?or possibly deliberately misused?) the amazing ace books five-digit cat# system, increasing the cat# (by one, if possible°) only when the cover price was increased above that of the previous printing, instead of with each printing. ° - if not possible, because the cat# one higher already allotted to another book, then to a nearby group of five cat#s starting with a number ending in -0 or in -5 (or sometimes, it seems, in -1 or in -6) this under-counted the number of printings and, in the absence of any files/access to any files recording the size of print-runs, numbers shipped, returns including stripped covers-only returns, each matched with cover prices, and number of copies remaindered, rendered it near impossible for authors or their agents to make accurate estimates of the royalties outstanding to them. the science fiction writers of america (very approximately sf & fantasy writers of the world published in america trade organization) attempted to get management(s) to sort out the accounting and to pay all monies owed, and eventually organised a writers' boycott of ace, to help encourage ace's management. grosset & dunlap's thomas (tom) doherty undertook to sort the financial side of this mess out to the best extent possible, and employed james p. (jim) baen to run and rebuild the editorial side of ace books with tom doherty's further commitment to providing him with an at least adequate budget, and accurate and timely sales & royalty statements - and payments! - to authors or their agents, plus back-payments where such could be calculated, or reasonably reliably estimated. grosset & dunlap's ace books (etc.) duly recovered under their (and others') efforts, and ran profitably to the point the berkley publishing group (berkley-putnam, putnam) or their owners decided to offer sufficiently large a sum to buy grosset & dunlap / charter communications / ace books (etc.) publishers and fold it into their group. (tom doherty and jim baen continued to work well together establishing first tor books, and then baen books - both major publishing success stories, though not without their own - rather different - sizable hiccups along their - completely separate - ways.)



ppint. 14th Jun 2023		grosset & dunlap charter communications undated° ace imprint mmpb grosset & dunlap bought ace books (and all of charter communications book publishing interests) 1977 cover art by alex ebel (signed, retained from 1974 ace books mmpb printing) cover price $1.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - save for copyright date; this printing may've been 1979; it was after cat# 10703's printing

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