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Author:Leigh Brackett
Title:The Best Of Leigh Brackett
Publisher:  Del Rey
Country:USA
Date:Sep 1977
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0345259548
Cat#:25954
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
20th Apr 2018
 reprint anthology edited by "mr. leigh brackett", aka edmond hamilton, q.v., containing six novelettes, three novellas and a short story plus afterword and addendum by leigh brackett, and introduction by edmond hamilton, plus fictional non-fiction report on leigh brackett's mars by margaret howes, also artist of the mars maps.

random house group ballantine books imprint near-identical first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and

cover art by boris vallejo (signed ''boris'', credited)
cover price $1.95
448pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to see if the carcass of the copy held was merkin- or canadadian- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: september 1977
(preceded only by the first merkin sfbc h/cvr that year for sale only to book club members,
not for sale to the public nor for distribution through the book trade retailer nor by news wholesalers)

high hundreds to low thousands of copies, presumédly of the wholly merkin-printed copies, were imported and distributed in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni (and in theory no further afield) with an initially peelable round-cornered white label on the back cover bearing their uk cover price (? 60p or 70p ?)
 

 
ppint.
31st Mar 2023
 should any bookcatter™ discover they hold a declared second printing of the mmpb with carcase (or ''book'') noted as being printed in canadada, it'd be appreciated if they were to be so good as to post the cover price together with the wording in the indicia printing history so declaring it;

- tia, yr hmbl srppnt.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
30th Mar 2023
 random house group ballantine books mmpb second printing

cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris, credited; retained from ballantine books mmpb first printings)
cover design changed: main typography is now horizontal instead of on a slant, and in light green
cover price $3.95 (?no simultaneous canadian-carcassed printing with different canadadian price?)
448pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Leigh Brackett - The Best Of Leigh Brackett - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345332474 (1986)

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