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Author:L. Sprague De Camp
Title:The Continent Makers And Other Tales Of The Viagens
Publisher:  Signet
Country:USA
Date:Nov 1971
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:Q4825
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
25th Mar 2024
 collection of almost all of the viagens interplanetarias series short stories, a new novelette and two novellas not published as short novels or half "ace doubles"

#1: "cosmic manhunt" (1954), q.v. for series listing and links.
 

 
ppint.
15th Dec 2018
 new american library signet books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

reprint collection of two novellas, an original novelette and five short stories, all in the viagens interplanetarias series.

cover art by bob pepper (signed, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
272pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table of contents, "in re sprague" nf introduction by isaac asimov, brief intro by de camp.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be, both bear first printing date, november 1971
 

 
ppint.
28th May 2018
 number in isbn13 field is^W was not an isbn13, and should^W has been deleted

isbn13s hadn't yet been invented then, not by three decades.
 

 
ppint.
26th Mar 2024
 contents:

in re sprague (nf) Isaac asimov (original to the collection, 1953)
author's note (nf) l. sprague de camp (original to the collection, 1953)
the inspector's teeth (short story) astounding vol.xlv #2, 4/1950, two b+w illustrations by ed cartier
summer wear (ss) startling vol.21 #2, 5/1950
finished (ss) astounding vol. xliv #3, 11/1949 (a story predicted by a fan, in a review a year earlier), two b+w illustrations by ed cartier
the galton whistle (novelette) (?original to the collection, 1953?; but it is credited as © 7/1951: is it the story "ultrasonic god", future c.w. science fiction stories vol. 2 #2, 7/1951, & de camp's preferred title?)
the animal-cracker plot (ss) astounding vol. xliii #5, 11/1949, three b+w illustrations by ed cartier
git along! (ss) astounding vol. xlv #6, 8/1950, two b+w illustrations by ed cartier
perpetual motion (novella) future c.w. science fiction stories vol.1 #3, 9/1950 as "wide-open planet", b+w illustration by virgil finlay
the continent makers (nlla) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxviii #1, 4/1951, three uncredited b+w illustrations
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
10th Mar 2021
 remploy books h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
remploy books' red star sci fi series

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited (black typography on red and yellow art shared with all of the 1973-4 remploy sf & f titles)
d-j drops ''and other tales of the viagens'' from the title
cover price (?)
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc. bound with endpapers between covered boards
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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L. Sprague De Camp - The Continent Makers And Other Tales Of The Viagens - Remploy - Hardcover - UK - 706605438 (1974)

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