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Author:John Norman
Title:Tarnsman Of Gor
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Country:USA
Date:Dec 1966
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cat#:U6071
Total Editions:2
Rating:7.0  Rate
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ppint.
14th Sep 2023
 ballantine books mmpb first printings, first edition

cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; credited in the indicia of the second, third, fourth & ff. printings)
cover price 75¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority stated, though later printings give a delayed date to the canadian-carcassed copies
 

 
annaloog
19th Sep 2022
 
Quote:
... John Norman is a pen name for John Lange, a philosophy professor of all things. Correction submitted ....
This info. has been added to the author bibliography ... it's a similar situation to that of Jack Vance, which is also a pen name.
 

 
23skidoo
18th Sep 2022
 According to Wikipedia, John Norman is a pen name for John Lange, a philosophy professor of all things. Correction submitted on the name. BTW ppint may be amused/horrified to hear he published Book 37 in the series just two weeks ago at the age of 91.
 

 
ppint.
22nd Sep 2018
 #1 in the gor series:

#1: "tarnsman of gor" (1966) (this book)
#2: "outlaw of gor" (1967), q.v.
#3: "priest-kings of gor" (1968), q.v.
#4: "nomads of gor" (1969), q.v.
#5: "assassin of gor" (1970), q.v.
#6: "raiders of gor" (1971), q.v.
#7: "captive of gor" (1972), q.v.
#8: "hunters of gor" (1974), q.v.
#9: "marauders of gor" (1975), q.v.
#10: "tribesmen of gor" (1976), q.v.
#11: "slave girl of gor" (1977), q.v.
#12: "beasts of gor" (1978), q.v.
#13: "explorers of gor" (1979), q.v.
#14: "fighting slave of gor" (1980), q.v.
#15: "rogue of gor" (1981), q.v.
#16: "guardsman of gor" (1981), q.v.
#17: "savages of gor" (1982), q.v.
#18: "blood brothers of gor" (1982), q.v.
#19: "kajira of gor" (1983), q.v.
#20: "players of gor" (1984), q.v.
#21: "mercenaries of gor" (1985), q.v.
#22: "dancer of gor" (1985), q.v.
#23: "renegades of gor" (1986), q.v.
#24: "vagabonds of gor" (1987), q.v.
#25: "magicians of gor" (1988), q.v.

#25 was the last published and distributed to the general book trade in mmpb, uk p/b

(#26 & ff. published in highly-priced hardcover and trade paperback editions from 2001, 2009-2016.)
(is any bookcatter still reading - or even just collecting - these?)
 

 
ppint.
21st Nov 2017
 nanocyar: ha! buy them if you must, if you have obsessive compulsive series-following (?dis-?)order - but don't read them much beyond the fifth (or sixth). really.
 

 
carey jeggs
19th Nov 2017
 Thomas M.Disch wrote a short story called Planet Of The Rapes which was intended as a parody of the Gor books.Unfortunately it turned into what it took off from.
 

 
nanocyar
17th Nov 2017
 I agree with ppint, this is a series to be avoided. Unfortunately once you start buying a series it is difficult to stop.
 

 
ppint.
17th Nov 2017
 Rated 7/10
#1 of far too many; they start off as competent sub-burroughsian, with a little idiocy, rapidly start filtering in heavier stupidity along the lines of "all modern women need for true happiness is to be enslaved by a powerful man, so they can be fucked sufficiently hard and often they can forget all the nonsense of trying to use their brains" - and they manage to go downhill from there!

the first three are worth the time taken to read them, but do not continue very much further. yhbw!

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ppint.
17th Sep 2023
 sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk and first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited) (d-j design by format credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 21/-
© 1966 by john lange
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between dark red cloth-covered boards with sf, two lines, title, author, two lines & logo, sidgwick & jackson blocked in gold on spine
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
17th Sep 2023
 actually bears the appropriate nine-digit standard book number, in the system that became part of the international standard book number system by the creation of the english language identifer, 0, and its notional prepension to all issued and still-current numbers already issued - or actual prepension in the event of the editions - or their dust-jackets - being reprinted thereafter; entered as the probably non-extant isbn because someone's deleting the correct and compatible sbns, thus reducing the information in, and the usefulness of, bookcat.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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John Norman - Tarnsman Of Gor - Sidgwick & Jackson - Hardcover - UK - 0283980605 (1969)

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