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Author:Fritz Leiber
Title:Swords And Deviltry
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:May 1970
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
Cat#:79170
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ppint.
14th Apr 2020
 ace books mmpb first printing, first edition

reprint collection comprised of two novellas, a novelelette and a short story,
includes the wonderful novella, "ill met in lankhmar", winner of the nebula award

cover art by jeff jones (signed, credited)
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
indicia bears © 1970
(month of publication presumably taken from contento)

11/1973 second ace printing bears redesigned cover and, severely cropped within a frame, retains
cover art by jeff jones
cover price 95¢
cat# 79171
adds introduction by fritz leiber which is retained through the eighteenth ace printing

near-identical presumably third ace printing (? 1974 ?), but is also stated second printing in indicia:
cover price $1.25
cat# 79172

4/1976 fourth ace mmpb printing: cover adds large pinked-edge circular yellow disc boasting the nebula award-winning novella within
cover price $1.50
cat# 79173

2/1978 (date from sixth printing indica) fifth ace mmpb printing retains yellow disc
cover price $1.75
cat# 79174
(i)sbn (0-)441-79174-3

8/1979 stated sixth ace mmpb printing, cover background colour changed to light grey, disc background to red
cover price $1.95
cat# 79175
isbn 0-441-79175-1

undated, seventh, eighth, ninth mmpb printings: each retains red disc background
cat# 79176
0-441-79176-X
cover price $2.25
ace stuck on 79176 for at least three printings, indicated seventh, eighth and ninth by indicia printing history number strings.

..
(cat#s 79177, 79178 not as-yet seen/seen reported from the wild: if extant,
one at least is likely to correspond to printings bearing a cover price of $2.50)
..

ace science fiction indicated thirteenth 5/1983, and
ace fantasy books indicated fourteenth 3/1984
both:
cat# 79179
cover price $2.75
isbn 0-441-79179-4

..

(?undated ?) (very incompletely reported)
isbn 0-441-79191-3
cover price $2.95

..

ace sixteenth printing 11/1985
cover price $2.95
isbn 0-441-79197-2

..

ace fantasy eighteenth printing
cover price (canada $3.95) u.s. $2.95
so this printing 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
isbn 0-441-79198-0
 
 
ppint.
13th Dec 2018
 fafhrd & the gray mouser/lankhmar #1:

#1: "swords and deviltry" (1970) (this collection)
aka ''swords & deviltry'' (uk 1971), q.v.
#2: "swords against death" (1970), q.v.
#3: "swords in the mist" (1968), q.v.
#4: "swords against wizardry (1968), q.v.
#5: "the swords of lankhmar (1968), q.v.
#6: "swords and ice magic (1977), q.v.
#7: "the knight and knave of swords (1988), q.v.
#7a: aka ''farewell to lankhmar'' (1998, 1999, 2000 then reverts to original title)

collaborative novel authorised and commissioned as the first of (at least) three°:
#0: "swords against the shadowland" robin wayne bailey (1998), q.v.

° - the project was, alas, abandoned by white wolf publishing together with all of
their non-world-of-darkness-rpg-world fiction publishing programme.


various collections published prior to (or after) the er, canonisation by ace books
include some of the fafhrd and the grey mouser, or lankhmar, stories;
of these, only a few are composed entirely of stories in the series:
i. ''two sought adventure'' (gnome press, 1957), q.v.
this collection is completely subsumed into #2: ''swords against death'', above.
ii. ''rime isle'' (whispers press, 1977), q.v.
collects the eponymous short novel or novella and its immediate precursor novelette, ''the frost monstreme'' in an illustrated edition: the two stories are collected in #6: ''swords and ice magic'', above.
iii. ''bazaar of the bizarre'' (donald m. grant, 1978), q.v.
de luxe profusely-illustrated h/cvr edition collecting the eponymous novelette from #2: ''swords against death'', and two others (one a short story) from #3: ''swords in the mist'', above.

and there've been two omnibisations (sorry) of the series complete to their dates of publication:

collecting books 1-2, books 3-4, books 5-6:
a: "ill met in lankhmar" (1995, 1996, 1999), q.v.
b: "lean times in lankhmar" (1996, 1997, 1999), q.v.
c: "return to lankhmar" (1997, 1998, 1999), q.v.

collecting books 1-4, and books 5-7:
m: "the first book of lankhmar" (2001, 2003 & ff.), q.v.
n: "the second book of lankhmar" (2001 & ff.), q.v.


plus, doing nobody seems to've known quite what, nor why, three ibooks doubles:
(these don't seem to've had unique titles bestowed upon the omnibi:)
q: books #4 & #5 (2004), q.v.
r: books #3 & #4 (2004), q.v.
s: books #3 & #6 (2005), q.v.
each bearing one or both of the titles of the two books omnibisycled upon its front cover
 
 
ppint.
26th Sep 2018
 number in isbn13 field is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted.

it was not an isbn13.

isbn13s weren't invented for another three decades.

nor was it an sbn9, nor was it an isbn10.
 

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