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Author:A. Bertram Chandler
Title:Spartan Planet
Publisher:  Dell
Country:USA
Date:Apr 1969
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:8174
Total Editions:3
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ppint.
3rd Jun 2021
 dell simultaneous first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first p/b edition

cover art by john berkey (unsigned, credited on back cover) (reused on ''s.t.a.r. flight'' e .c. tubb (five star 1973), q.v.)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing---april 1969
 

 
ppint.
11th Feb 2019
 first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has now been corrected to 1968

aka and originally published as "false fatherland" (horwitz, australia 1968), q.v.
 

 
ppint.
17th Sep 2024
 grosset & dunlap charter communications, inc. ace mmpb first printing thus°
half a double, but with single front cover;
i.e. not a classic "ace double" with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by paul alexander (signed "alexander", also credited)
isbn 0-441-11555-1
cat# 11555
cover price $2.25
indicia printing history number line 2 4 6 8 0 9 7 5 3 1
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

° - first edition of this pairing, "the commodore at sea" (aka "alternate orbits", q.v.) with
"spartan planet" (aka "false fatherland", q.v.)
the first is a reprint collection containing four novelettes; the second, a novel.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
6th Jul 2020
 grosset & dunlap charter communications, inc. ace mmpb undated° second printing thus by number line
half a double, but sharing a single front cover;
i.e. not a classic "ace double" with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by paul alexander retained
isbn 0-441-11556-X (on spine) (incorrectly given as 0-441-11556-3 on back cover)
cat# 11556
cover price $2.75
indicia printing history number line 2 4 6 8 0 9 7 5 3
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (adverts may differ)

° - 9/1981 from locus #249, 10/1981


doubled with "the commodore at sea" (1971 as "alternate orbits", q.v.) 1979 q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
11th Feb 2019
 doubled with "the commodore at sea" (1971 as "alternate orbits" q.v.) (1979), q.v.
with which it here shares the front cover.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
11th Feb 2019
 aka and originally published in book form as "false fatherland" (australia 1968), q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
11th Feb 2019
 first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1968.

first book publication was in horwitz paperbacks in 1968, as "false fatherland", q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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A. Bertram Chandler - Spartan Planet - Ace - Paperback - USA (1981)
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A. Bertram Chandler - Spartan Planet - Ace - Paperback - USA (1979)

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