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Author:	Michael Moorcock
Title:	The Bane Of The Black Sword
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1977
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0879973161
Cat#:	UY1316
Total Editions:	3
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David Whiteley ● 13th Dec 2020		Added front and back cover.



ppint. 6th Aug 2019		near-identical editions/printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence cat#, isbn, cover art by michael whelan (credited, art is also signed with his monogram) near-meaningless daw book collector no. 254 cover price $1.25 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed: no priority established nor liable to be, both giving first printing date august 1977 and full printing number-string 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 near-identical reprintings retain cover art, pagination (advertisements may differ): undated thrid printing 1978 according to jaffery cat# UW1421 isbn 0-87997-421-4 indica publishing history number-string 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 cover price $1.50 undated fourth printing (1 or 2/1980 by interpolation of cat#/isbn) cat# UE1515 isbn 0-87997-515-6 indica publishing history number-string 4 5 6 7 8 9 cover price $1.75 near-meaningless daw book collector no. dropped from cover with/by this printing) undated fifth printing (6/1981 by interpolation of cat#/isbn) cat# UJ1628 isbn 0-87997-628-4 indica publishing history number line 5 6 7 8 9 cover price $1.95 near-identical sixth printing (liable to be c. easter 1982) cat# UJ1628 isbn 0-87997-628-4 indica publishing history number line 6 7 8 9 cover price $1.95 undated seventh printing (3/1983 by interpolation of cat# and isbn) cat# UE1805 isbn 0-87997-805-8 indica publishing history number-string 7 8 9 cover price $2.25 (1984 berkeley books mmpb appears to use same typesetting with new cover design, art, title page, isbn, indica etc.)



ppint. 6th Aug 2019		1977 novel/fix-up of three novelettes and a short story first published in science fantasy issues during 1962 and previously distributed through two earlier reprintmoorcocklections: "the singing citadel" (1970), q.v. "the stealer of souls" (1963), q.v.



ppint. 1st Apr 2019		elric of melniboné series #5: #1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.



ppint. 9th Dec 2021		daw books mmpb edition, undated seventh printing cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w initial in cartouche, credited) (retained through all daw mmpb printings) cat# UE1805 cover price $2.25 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising indica printing history number line: 7 8 9 dated by interpolation of cover prices of daw books mmpbs of this extent, and of daw books isbns (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Dec 2021		david: nods - but n.b. the 1984 mmpb is from a completely different merkin publisher, berkley-putnam or berkley publishing group, initially under their berkley imprint - and later, under the ace books imprint, which they'd bought from (or as part of acquiring all of) grosset & dunlap's mmpb (and most/all? of their trade books) publishing division. this 1983 7th daw books mmpb printing is almost certainly the final daw books printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley ● 4th Dec 2021		If it helps, I have added the copyright page from an identical copy of this book. The $2.25 price and this catalogue number (which does appear to be from 1983) seem to have only been for the 7th printing. In 1984 the price increased to $2.50 and there was a different cover design. See Moorcography.org for more information. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Dec 2021		@langston: if you look inside the book, on the reverse of the title page you will find, inter alia, the printing history number line, from which numbers are progressively dropped with each further printing. the lowest number remaining in the printing history number line of your copy is probably the number 7 (since i am not holding your copy, i cannot be certain: it might be that the lowest number remaining in the number line is 6, or possibly 8; but 7 is the most likely); this indicates that your copy is NOT the first daw books mmpb printing of 1977. it indicates that it is the 7th daw books mmpb printing. the isbn is also wrong for the 1977 first daw books mmpb printing. the cover price is also wrong for the 1977 first daw books mmpb printing. if you look at the box that is below the header, ''primary edition'', and click or tap on the box, this will take you to the entry for the daw books 1977 first mmpb printing, - and you will be able to note the detailed differences between it, and your copy - inter alia, that the (admittedly near-meaningless) daw book collector number present in the small yellow box top right on the front cover of the first printing is absent, and the new daw books cat# now occupies that position. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



Langston 2nd Dec 2021		My copy says Copyright @1967, 1970, 1977 by Michael Moorcock. Every search online for the ISBN 0879978058 shows it as being published in 1977. I have no idea where 1983 is coming from. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Dec 2021		date of this printing is wrong and should be corrected to 1983 the cat#, isbn and cover price are not those of the 1977 first daw books mmpb printing(s), and by interpolation into daw books' (& nal's) by then pretty rigorous system, best fit 3/1983 this is liable to be the seventh, possibly the sixth or eighth, daw books mmpb printing, and the printing history number line is liable to read ''7 8 9'' (perhaps ''7 8 9 10 11'' or similar). printing number will be found in the indica publishing history on the reverse of the title page, as the lowest number remaining in the printing history number line. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Aug 2019		daw books undated thrid printing, near-identical with the two first printings, except for cat#, isbn cover price $1.50 indica publishing history number-string 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Michael Moorcock - The Bane Of The Black Sword - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879974214 (1978)

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Michael Moorcock - The Bane Of The Black Sword - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879978058 (1983)