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Author:H. Beam Piper
Title:Space Viking
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:1963
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:F-225
Total Editions:6
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ppint.
2nd Nov 2018
 ace books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited, attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library
cover price 40¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
 

 
ppint.
21st Jul 2023
 (duplicated entry)
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 according to the spiffy ace books five-digit system, cat# should've been increased by 1 from the previous printing, to 77782 (with consequent (i)sbn (0-)441-77782-1);
however this cat# had already been allocated to ''space visitor'' by mack reynolds (8/1977), q.v. (and ((0-)441-)77783(-X) to the second printing of this), possibly by mistake - and definitely outwith the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system;

a quick manglement flail around evidently spotted 77779 as being unused, which was still unsystematic - the choice should've gone to a completely unused block of five (or even ten) adjacent cat#s commencing in a terminal ''0'' or a ''5'' (- or arguably, a partly-used block not reserved for another title's reprintings, commencing in a terminal ''2'', to follow on from the terminal ''1'' of 77781) - but it wasn't.

and, rather than follow this with 77778, counting down (- well, why not? -) from the anomalous 77779,
the next known printing was allocated 77784, with consequent isbn 0-441-77784-8, 9/1983;
but its cover is sufficiently different from all of the preceding three michael whelan-covered printings, by virtue of the art being reproduced reversed left-right, in mirror image, to definitely constitute a new bookcat item.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 berkley publishing group ace books mmpb presumédly the fifth printing over-all, with new cover design,

cover art by michael whelan (signed with his w/m in cartouche, uncredited: art including m/w reversed left-right from 1977 through 1980 printings; upper 40% cover now black, bears titles in blue & white)
cover price $2.75
indicia publishing history drops number line, adds new line stating
this printing / september 1983
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 grosset & dunlap charter communications undated° ace books imprint mmpb first standard format mmpb printing, second ace books printing over-all (first was pocketbook format mmpb F-325 1963)

cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited)
cover price $1.50
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date taken from locus having received their review copy 1/1977


distinguish from near-identical undated°° ace mmpb third printing mid-1977:
cat# 77781
(i)sbn (0-)441-7781-3
cover price $1.95

°° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date obtained as being the month of the latest-published title advertised in the end page advertisements


distinguish from near-identical 1980 ace mmpb fourth printing with restyled, larger front cover titles:
cat# 77779
isbn 0-441-77779-1
cover price $2.25

indicia publishing history gives fourth printing by printing number line, and states
this ace printing december 1980


next (and last) known ace books 1983 mmpb printing has re-designed cover, reverses cover art left-right
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
13th Jul 2023
 grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb, fourth printing by number line
(third printing of this c. 1/1977 standard format p/b edition, after small pocketbook format first edition)

front cover typography re-designed in larger, (viking in panoramic) font, retains the two earlier printings'
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited)
cat# 77779
indicia publishing history adds line stating
this printing december 1980
cover price $2.25
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
6th Nov 2018
 tbl sphere books ltd. p/b first printing, first uk edition
copyright © ace books inc. 1963

printed in great britain by c. nicholls & company ltd
the philips park press, manchester

cover art by melvyn grant (signed "melvyn", uncredited)
cover price 85p, 93½p eire, 90c malta, $2.75 australia, $2.75 new zealand, $1.955 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
australia recommended price only
224pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising: 1p. ''close encounters of the third kind'', 1p. mail-order information
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441777791 (1980)
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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441777848 (1983)
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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Sphere - Paperback - UK - 0722168764 (1978)
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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Ace - Paperback - USA (1977)
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H. Beam Piper - Space Viking - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441777848 (1983)

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