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Author:Paul Linebarger as Cordwainer Smith
Title:The Best Of Cordwainer Smith
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Country:USA
Date:Sep 1975
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0345245814
Cat#:24581
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ppint.
5th Feb 2022
 reprint collection of three short stories, seven novelettes and a novella;
all are instrumentality of mankind stories
compiled and with introduction by j. j. pierce
ballantine's companion volume to ballantine books 2/1975 mmpb and first edition of ''norstrilia'',
the major instrumentality novel (previously only published cut in two and modified to suit this),
and later, the 1979 collection, ''the instrumentality of mankind''.

contents:

scanners live in vain (novelette) fantasy book (vol.1) #6, 1/1950 (month from donald h. tuck)
the lady who sailed the soul (ntte) galaxy vol.18 #4, 4/1960; galaxy bre #79
the game of rat and dragon (short story) galaxy vol.11 #1, 10/1955; galaxy bre #34;
three b+w illustrations by diane dillon, leo dillon (bre drops one illustration(?))
the burning of the brain (ss) if vol.8 #6, 10/1958
the crime and the glory of commander suzdal (ss) amazing vol.38 #5, 5/1964
golden the ship was --- oh! oh! oh! (ss) amazing vol.33 #4; 4/1959
the dead lady of clown town (novella) galaxy vol.22 #6, 8/1964; four b+w illustrations by gray morrow
under old earth (ntte) galaxy vol.24 #3, 2/1966
mother hitton's littul kittons (ntte) galaxy vol.19 #5, 6/1961, galaxy bre #86;
two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay (both editions)
alpha ralpha boulevard (ntte) f&sf vol.20 #6, 6/1961; f&sf atlas bre vol.2 #11
the ballad of lost c'mell (ntte) galaxy vol.21 #1, 10/1962; galaxy bre #94
a planet named shayol (ntte) galaxy vol.20 #1, 10/1961; galaxy bre #88

''the lady who sailed the soul'' & ''golden the ship was --- oh! oh! oh!'' written in collaboration with genevieve linebarger, originally published attributed solely to ''cordwainer smith''.
 
 
ppint.
5th Feb 2022
 random house ballantine books imprint simultaneous first mmpb printings, first published edition

cover art by darrell k. sweet (credited)
cover price $1.95
400pp. (check) including titles, indica, table-of-contents, timeline & introduction etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, september, 1975
edited (compiled) and introduced by j. j. pierce

some couple of thousand copies imported by futura publications and distributed in the uk-of-gb-&-ni (and possibly a little beyond) bearing uk cover price in black on peelable white sticker on back cover
 

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