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Author:	Roger Zelazny
Title:	This Immortal
Publisher:	Rupert Hart-Davis
Country:	UK
Date:	1967
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$417
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ppint. 3rd May 2021		first rupert hart-davis printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by ken reilly (credited as designer on front d-j flap) cover (d-j) price 25/- 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards my thanks to tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe sea-front, for letting me see the copy in the valuable books cabinet.



ppint. 16th Jun 2019		panther books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art uncredited, unsigned cover price 5/-, south africa 60c, australia 80c, new zealand 65c 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 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Jun 2019		methuen london p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by melvyn grant (credited on rear cover) cover price £1.95 184pp? (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



carey jeggs 18th Nov 2017		Contains a piece of useful advice.Apparently blood is very nourishing once you learn to keep it down. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Nov 2017		Rated 10/10 serialised in f&sf vol.29 #4, #5; 10/1965, 11/1965, under the title, "...and call me conrad"; winner of the 1966 hugo award for best novel. humanity's rape and destruction of the earth's ecosystem has presented civilisation in the local part of the galaxy with a major problem, and unscrupulous asset-strippers (and worse) amongst them with a tempting business opportunity or three hundred. a fabulously wealthy alien comes to earth, ostensibly as a tourist, one amongst quite a few such fascinated by the chance to view - and possibly buy up examples of - humanity's art treasures before the planet and its cultures have been completely looted (not least, of course, by wealthy alien tourists not too fussy about the legality of their acquisitions), and engages a tour guide for his party who proves to be rather more than meets the eye - and isn't too keen on tourists buying up the treasures of ten thousand years as mildly interesting knick-knacks to decorate their off-planet offices and towers to impress friends and visitors, and forget. conrad gives his employers their money's worth, including steering them safely through some of the more dangerous parts of their itinery they're not prepared to abandon - though some of the dangers they seem to've brought with them - and provides them with photo-opportunities (or equivalents thereof) as may appeal, entertain or appal, including the destruction of one of the pyramids(!) - but why? he doesn't appear to need the money, and his sympathies seem more in tune with the assassin he argues out of completing their commission - at least, for a while - than with the rich wastrels and industrialists, etc, he's guiding and protecting; again, why? - and why on earth has one of the monsters out of a "hot" area picked up their trail, what can it be after? - and how much can a ruined planet be worth, after all - and to whom? - one's own life? - or more? (this review is from another edition of this book) 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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Other Editions

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Roger Zelazny - This Immortal - Panther - Paperback - UK (1968)

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Roger Zelazny - This Immortal - Methuen - Paperback - UK - 0413568407 (1985)