based upon the novella, "he who shapes" in the cele goldsmith/cele lalli-edited ziff-davis magazine, amazing stories vol.39 #1 & #2, 1/1965 & 2/1965.
cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed "kf", uncredited)
interior b+w art by jack gaughan (signed with his "jg" digraph)
undated save for copyright year date of 1966; month taken from a later printing's indica printing history
cover price 40¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
deemed to've been cat#ed 16700 for the purposes of the ace books five-digit cat# system:
hence ace books undated near-identical mmpb second printing published after its introduction:
(6/1970 from indicia publishing history of 1973 mmpb printing)
cat# 16701
cover price 60¢
4/1973 ace books mmpb third printing moves to the taller pocketbook format (cf. standard uk p/b format) and new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited)
cat# 16702
cover price 95¢
192pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
undated near-identical ace books mmpb fifth printing differs:
cat# 16704
cover price $1.50
end pp. adverts include perry rhodan series books through #800 at 95¢ apiece, books by mack reynolds at $1.25 each, erb titles at $1.25 each, andre norton books at $1.25 each save ''iron cage'' $1.50; assorted award winners most at $1.25 each but ''the einstein intersection'' samuel r. delany 95¢, and ''the left hand of darkness'' ursula k. leguin $1.75, etc.
undated near-identical ace books mmpb sixth printing should not have retained cat# but did:
cat# 16704
cover price $1.50
end pp. adverts include pages for award winners most at $1.50 each save ''the big time'' fritz leiber $1.25, ''city'' clifford d. simak $1.75, ''the left hand of darkness'' ursula k. leguin $1.95, etc.
undated (2/1979 from end pp. advert) berkley publishing group ace sf mmpb seventh printing retains
cover art (unsigned, uncredited) (seen suggested by j. h. breslaw)
cat# 16705
isbn 0-441-16705-5
cover price $1.95
10/1981 eighth ace books mmpb printing with new
cover art by walter velez (signed walter velez 1981, uncredited)
cat# 16706
isbn 0-441-16706-3
indicia publishing history line ''this ace printing: october 1981''
cover price $2.25
3/1987 ninth ace mmpb printing retains
cover art by walter velez
cat# 16708
isbn 0-441-16708-X
cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $2.95
ibooks trade p/b first printing, not first us p/b edition
cover art by lebbeus woods (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price u.s. $12.00, can(ada) $17.95
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, 4 lank end pp.
distribution and probably production via simon & schuster/pocket books, hence the s&s group isbn (this comment is from another edition of this book)
panther books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
rupert hart-davis h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover d-j art by ken reilly (credited on d-j front flap)
cover price 25/-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)
methuen london p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn, also credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)