wm. collins sons grafton books first printing, a near-identical second printing on same panther books (i)sbn of the granada publishing first printing: indicia bears ''reprinted 1987'' line in publishing history as this is now a grafton book, part of wm. collins (& sons) ltd. though "panther" is retained in places
front cover bears isbn 0586 04735 2
cover art by peter goodfellow retained from first printing
cover price £2.50, $7.95 australia, $9.95 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
Reviewcollection of eight short stories and three novelettes set in orsinia, linked to one another and to her novel, "malafrena" (1979), q.v.
i think i can best represent these as historical fiction set in an alternate austro-hungarian empire's equivalent of our's nineteenth or late eighteenth centuries; well-described, frequently sumptuous settings and countrysides, and just maybe an underlying feel that the luxurious living, and the appreciation of the arts and the most intricate works of craftsmen & women, of this society's wealthy overlies a deep fundamental instability. . .
granada publishing panther books p/b first printing, first state; first thus
cover art by peter goodfellow
front cover bears isbn 0586 94735 2
cover price 75p, $2.15 australia, $2.25 new zealand, $2.25 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
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
first printing, second state:
same printing "up-priced" by obliteration of original cover price (75p) in the process of printing the new price of £1.50 upon the rear cover, a common process used by granada publishing - grafton books° on stock whose original cover price had been overtaken by inflation through at least the end of the seventies-early eighties.
° - and some other publishers: howard & wyndham/w. h. allen's universal, -/tandem & star imprints - obliteration of old prices & bar-codes mostly done in hatched silver or gold-coloured metallic-looking inks; pinnacle/paramount titles distributed in the uk (& some territories beyond?), solid silver-coloured ink oblong cartouches; penguin group imprints including penguin & puffin, puffin plus, thick lines using a very persistent ?plastic-based? black inkstuff. . .