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Author:	Poul Anderson
Title:	The Broken Sword
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Jan 1971
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
Cat#:	02107-X
Total Editions:	3
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
SBN 345-02107-X-095

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ppint. 10th Feb 2018		ballantine books (possibly intext group° imprint - check title page & indicia) mmpb two near-identical first printings, first p/b edition, sharing merkin-printed covers and cover art by george barr (signed g barr, credited) cover price 95¢ cat# 02107 sbn 345-02107-X 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see if copy held has a canadadian or merkin-printed book carcass. no priority established nor liable to be, indica publishing history of both state first printing: january, 1971 ° intext towards the end of ballantine books' independent existence, when ian & betty ballantine were looking towards retiring from full-time office-based work in publishing (between them - and with others - they'd set up the original merkin penguin books operation that became signet (etc.) books and then new american library, and then set up bantam books, as well, before setting up their own ballantine books...) and realise some of the capital value they'd built up over the last decade of hard work, and sold control to a now-shadowy business named intext books. this deal went badly wrong, intext proving to be far less well-founded than had been represented to the ballantines, and things eventually came to a head with them having to take legal action against intext, and intext excluding them from its operations - even though they remained major shareholders. the disruptions slowed down ''ballantine books, an intext publisher'''s publication schedule, saw the tapering off and then fading into oblivion of the non-commercially successful ''unicorn head'' adult fantasy series, and the closure of some of intext's expansions that proved to've been overambitious given the much lower level of capital than had been represented. betty ballantine returned to her office when random house, inc. bought ballantine books (and possibly the other parts of intext - details of the settlement weren't online last time i looked) to oversee its getting back on a sound editorial and organisational footing, advised on the hiring of judy-lynn del rey to take over from her as editor-in-chief, and eventually was able to retire properly. the last of the titles bought for the unicorn head adult fantasy list were published, and then judy-lynn del rey brought in her husband and fantasy fan, lester del rey, to restart a fantasy list as a commercial publishing category in its own right - which project proved massively successful.



ppint. 10th Feb 2018		random house group ballantine books imprint mmpb second printing (third printing over-all, but the accounting excludes the canadian-carcassed first printing intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover art by george barr (and cover design) signed, credited; retained from first ballantine printings cat# 23526 cover price $1.25 224pp. including titles, indicia, nf forwards by lin carter, by the author, etc., 3 end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Feb 2018		sphere sf classic series no. 12 cover art by patrick woodroffe (uncredited, art is signed) cover price 35p, $1.10c australia, $1.10c new zealand so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea 208pp. including titles, indicia etc. near-identical second printing 1977 cover art by patrick woodroffe retained cover price 65p, rep. of ireland 73½p, malta 70c, australia $1.90, new zealand $2.15 so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea 208pp. including titles, indicia etc. third printing 1982, with new cover art uncredited, unsigned ''science fiction classic no.12'' line dropped from front cover cover price £1.50, 208pp. including titles, indicia etc. the 1992 orbit p/b is printed from the same typesetting, sphere books having been sold onto macdonald/futura (etc.) by penguin books after they'd bought the disgraced conrad black's book publishing companies (including sphere p/bs and michael joseph h/cvrs), and glomming onto some of the titles (e.g. ''mists of avalon'' by marion zimmer bradley before selling on the publisher's name and most of the remaining back catalogue, rights, etc. including the twelve conan pastiches, etc. lancer books, inc.'d published, or failed-to-publish-but-licenced-to-sphere books ltd. before lancer collapsed. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword - Sphere - Paperback - UK - 0722111576 (1973)

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Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345235266 (1973)