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ppint. 17th Feb 2019
| | daw books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his monogram, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph)
near-meaningless daw books number 292
cover price $1.95
368pp. (check) including titles, indicia, brief note (nf) by mzb etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia to see if copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be, both bear first printing's month & year date, and number-string, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
check also for all-but identical later copies' indicia number-strings which drop further digits:
third printing (no date as yet ascribed), 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
fourth printing (no date as yet ascribed), 4 5 6 7 8 9
fifth printing (12/1980 from locus) bears cover price $2.95, new isbn 0879976292, cat# UE1629
sixth printing (1983) reported by few bearing cover price $2.95, isbn 0879978120, cat# UE1812
seventh printing (? date not ascribed) cover price (canada $3.95) u.s. $3.50, isbn 0879979518, cat# UE1951
liable to be simultaneous with
eighth printing (1984), cover price $3.50, isbn 0879979518, cat# UE1951
if the book carcass of one is canadadian-printed, t'other u.s.-printed: but this not reported.
ninth printing (reportedly 9/1985) cover price $3.95, isbn 0-88677-092-0, cat# UE2092
tenth printing (no date as yet ascribed) cover price $3.95, isbn 0-88677-092-0, cat# UE2092
eleventh & twelfth printings reported by locus may've been confused::
eleventh (1/1992) cover price (canada $4.95) u.s. $4.50, isbn 0-88677-310-5, cat# UE2310
twelfth (3/1989) cover price $4.50, isbn 0-88677-310-5, cat# UE2310
or one may be a canadadian-printed carcass. . . either way, these last two (at least) bear re-designed covers that loosely match the design of the daw books uniform edition covers in style, without using richard hescox' border artwork. |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | #2 in the darkover series (1964-2016):
#1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | daw books undated near-identical seventh and eighth printings
cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $3.50
cat# UE1951
isbn 0-87997-951-8
liable to be simultaneous if the carcase of one is canadadian-printed, carcass of t'other u.s.-printed: but this not yet seen/seen reported. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | daw books mmpb eleventh or twelfth printing; which not advised by original contributor. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | daw books mmpb seventh or eighth printing; but which not advised by original contributor. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | daw books mmpb sixth printing (1983) reported by few bearing
cover price $2.95
isbn 0-87997-812-0
cat# UE1812 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024
| | daw books mmpb undated fifth printing (12/1980 from locus) bears
cover price $2.95
isbn 0879976292
cat# UE1629 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 8th Dec 2022
| | hutchinson publishing group arrow books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition
dedication: to catherine l. moore / first lady of science fiction
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; identifiably by bruce pennington on stylistic grounds)
cover price £1.50, $3.50 australia
368pp. including, 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 4 end pp. advertising including 1p. freebie for the bsfa
distinguish from near-identical second arrow books p/b printing by reference to the indicia publishing history, which adds the line reprinted 1981 in the second printing, and bears
cover price £1.60 (only price) in white rectangular cutout from art where previously two prices were printed (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 25th Aug 2019
| | first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1978
published in merkin mmpb by daw books new york, usa 6/1978°
° - with a shriek! (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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