simultaneous macfadden books first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank (2001))
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state a macfadden book ... 1963
(publication month taken from printing history in near-identical 1966 second macfadden printing)
a.k.a. "necromancer"; the prequel to the dorsai trilogy:
#0: "necromancer" (1962), q.v. for complete childe cycle listing, including the dorsai series, and links.
aka "no room for man" (this book)
#1: "tactics of mistake" (1971), q.v.
#2: "soldier, ask not" (1964, expanded 1967), q.v.
#3: "dorsai!" (1959), q.v.
#3b: (abridgment as:) "the genetic general" (1960), q.v.
series later extended into "the childe cycle" (incomplete at gordon r. dickson's death, 31/1/2001)
comprising nine novels (one published posthumously 3/2007 as by dickson and david w. nixon),
plus a number of novellas, a novelette and two short stories.
manor books second mmpb printing, but given as fourth in publishing history as accounting includes the two/four previous macfadden books mmpb printings as the first two printings
cover art unsigned, uncredited; retained from previous manor books mmpb printing;
the small circular blue mb logo top fly corner of previous printing is dropped, there's a new cat#, and
cover price 95¢
160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
simultaneous macfadden books second mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by richard powers (retained from first macfadden mmpb printings)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state second printing...... december 1966 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
almost certainly scheduled and in production when macfadden books (and the larger macfadden-bartell corporation too?) were taken over by and turned into manor books, as this first manor books edition is stated to be the third printing (which it would have been going to be, given the merkin mmpb publishers' habit of accounting simultaneous canadadian and merkin cover-sharing printings as one printing).
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 75¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
indicia publishing history adds line:
third printing .... november, 1972
near-identical 11/1974 manor books second printing, accounted fourth printing over-all, retains the unsigned, uncredited cover art, but drops the mb in a circle logo, also adds manor books above author's name on front cover, and bears
cat# 95367
cover price 95¢
indicia publishing history adds line:
fourth printing .... november, 1974 (this comment is from another edition of this book)