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Author:	Jack Vance
Title:	The Blue World
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1966
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	U2169
Total Editions:	4
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U2169 50 cents 190pp

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ppint. 3rd Jan 2021		first ballantine books mmpb printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising 4/1977 simultaneous second ballantine books mmpb printings bears new ballantine del rey imprint, cover art by vincent difate cover price $1.50 cat# 25784 (i)sbn (0)345-25784-7 refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state second printing: april, 1977



ppint. 27th Feb 2019		mayflower books ltd. granada publishing group/ltd. cover art uncredited, unsigned, sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 60p, canada $2.50, australia $1.90, new zealand $1.90 so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule 192pp. including titles, indica etc. refer to indica for presence/absence of statement of reprinting, to distinguish copy held from 2/1977 near-identical second printing (3/1987 printing on same mayflower isbn bears radically stylish new cover art, cover price £2.50, and was published by wm.collins sons, the by-then owners of the former granada publishers, as a grafton book, so will probapossibly be a new bookcat item, eventually.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Jun 2018		near-identical editions/printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#, sbn9 & isbn10, cover art by vincent di fate (signed, credited) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica to see if book carcass is canadadian- or merkin- printed. no priority established nor liable to be. both are accounted the ballantine books second printing, as del rey was set up by, and later became an imprint of, ballantine books. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Jun 2018		isbn is given in the indica: the cover of the book bears only the cat#, and the sbn9-plus-cover-price-in-cents (on the spine). (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Jun 2018		based on the novella, "the kragen" by jack vance, in fantastic vol.13 #7, 7/1964 for which story emsh (ed emshwiller) provided that issue's cover art, and a b+w illustration. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Jack Vance - The Blue World - Mayflower - Paperback - UK (1976)

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Jack Vance - The Blue World - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 0345257847 (1977)

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Jack Vance - The Blue World - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879978171 (1983)