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Author:Poul Anderson
Title:The Broken Sword
Publisher:  Sphere
Country:UK
Date:Jan 1973
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:0722111576
Total Editions:3
First Published:  1954
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Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1971)

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ppint.
10th Feb 2018
 sphere sf classic series no. 12

cover art by patrick woodroffe (uncredited, art is signed)
cover price 35p, $1.10c australia, $1.10c 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
208pp. including titles, indicia etc.

near-identical second printing 1977
cover art by patrick woodroffe retained
cover price 65p, rep. of ireland 73½p, malta 70c, australia $1.90, new zealand $2.15
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
208pp. including titles, indicia etc.

third printing 1982, with new
cover art uncredited, unsigned
''science fiction classic no.12'' line dropped from front cover
cover price £1.50,
208pp. including titles, indicia etc.


the 1992 orbit p/b is printed from the same typesetting, sphere books having been sold onto macdonald/futura (etc.) by penguin books after they'd bought the disgraced conrad black's book publishing companies (including sphere p/bs and michael joseph h/cvrs), and glomming onto some of the titles (e.g. ''mists of avalon'' by marion zimmer bradley before selling on the publisher's name and most of the remaining back catalogue, rights, etc. including the twelve conan pastiches, etc. lancer books, inc.'d published, or failed-to-publish-but-licenced-to-sphere books ltd. before lancer collapsed.
 

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