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Author:Jack L. Chalker
Title:Quest For The Well Of Souls
Publisher:  Del Rey
Country:USA
Date:Nov 1978
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0345277023
Cat#:27702
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ppint.
14th Sep 2024
 random house group ballantine books simultaneous near-identical mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
del rey series

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed, credited)
cover price $2.25 (canadadian printing)
cover price $1.95 (u.s. printing)
320pp. (check) including pages (i-) xiii titles, indicia, introduction, two b+w maps etc, 27 end pp: two nf-within-f appendices, advertising

refer also to indicia to check if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be. both state first edition: november 1978

darrel sweet's cover art retained through (at least) the twelfth (1991) printings:

author's name on front cover now in black, rather than in white, and underlined in the orangey-red of title:

second printing: may 1980; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337
thrid printing: november 1980; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337
some copies of third printing distributed north of the parallel bearing ballantine's label in canada $2.75
fourth printing: october 1981; cover price $2.25, isbn 0345293371, cat# 29337

fifth printing: (?march 1983?); cover price $2.50, isbn 0345311205, cat# 31120
(3/1983 date is not from locus, only from an amazon entry, so not exactly excessively reliable-upon)
sixth printing: december 1984; cover price $2.95, isbn 0345342501, cat# 34250

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author's name on front cover in orangey-red as per title, front cover sports a black-outlined white band across near top bearing three-line puff-line leading up to the del Rey series roundel; cat# is still stated to be ballantine:

twelfth printing: 11/1991; (canada $6.50) u.s. $4.95, isbn 0345324501, cat# 32450
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state twelfth printing: november 1991
 

 
ppint.
3rd Feb 2019
 well of souls main series #2b, containing the second half of the first sequel:

#1: "midnight at the well of souls" (1977), q.v. for series listings and links
 


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