daw books near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art & b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (cover credited, b+w art signed "jgaughan")
b+w map (signed "thrym berger", but copy credited to jack gaughan on darkover website)
near-meaningless daw books number 160
cover price $1.50
384pp? including titles, indicia etc., end pp. advertising
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 month & year date,
number-string 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
next (third) printing, 6/1977 & ff. through fifteenth daw books mmpb printing have new cover art by george barr, though this is initially mis-credited to jack gaughan.
daw books undated° mmpb thirteenth printing by indicia printing number line
front cover redesigned with framing art by richard hescox (unsigned, credited)
cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, reatly shrunk to fit frame art)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughhttps://www.45worlds.com/assets/img/pixel.gifan (signed with his digraph)
b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer
cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
° - ? month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)
daw books undated° mmpb twelfth printing by indicia printing number line
cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, new superimposed DAW logo)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer
cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
° - ? month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, new superimposed DAW logo)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer
cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $3.50
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /10 11 12 13 14 for the merkin-carcassed copies and /11 12 13 14 for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the eleventh printing
° - month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art by george barr (signed, now credited correctly to george barr)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
cover price $2.50
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
wholly merkin-printed: indicia publishing history states first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
the near-meaningless daw books collector number remains absent from the front covers; the cat# remains in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo
° - year of publication of not given: months and year taken from sheldon jaffery
there may have been a simultaneous canadian-carcased variant, formally identified as the eighth printing by printing number line, but i've not yet seen, nor seen any report of the eighth printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art by george barr (signed, now credited correctly to george barr)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
cover price $1.95
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /6 7 8 9 (?10 11 12 13 14?) for the merkin-carcassed copies and /5 6 7 8 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 reported for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the fifth printing (the canadian-carcased variant was generally assigned the higher printing number, so this could be worth double-checking)
the near-meaningless daw books collector number remains absent from the front covers; the cat# remains in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo
° - year of publication of not given in their indicia: year by even interpolation between those of the printings to either side (this comment is from another edition of this book)
daw books undated° simultaneous near-identical mmpb third and fourth printings sharing new
cover art by george barr (signed, miscredited to jack gaughan)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
cover price $1.95
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /3 4 5 6 7 8 9 for the merkin-carcassed copies and /4 5 6 7 8 9, for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the fourth printings
the near-meaningless daw books collector number is removed from the front covers; the cat# takes its former place in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo
° - month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus 202, 7/1977 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
century hutchinson/century arrow imprint first, arrow books second over-all printing, with new cover art
"the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" (b+w map) "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer
cover art by peter a. jones (no visible signature, painting likely signed paj, dated; credited on back cover)
cover price £2.95 (overseas territories prices - check)
388pp. (check°)(double-check!°°) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; taken from locus
° - pagination starts at "13", but this is not preceded by twelve unnumbered pages - only four...†
°° - this printing seen given as 428pp. - for 432pp inclusive?? - but it's very unlikely to've been re-set...
† - "publishers!" (this comment is from another edition of this book)
london weekend television hutchinson & co. arrow p/b first printing, first uk edition
"the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" (b+w map) "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is a fictional darkovan cartographer
cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn, uncredited)
cover price £1.25, $4.15 australia, $3.95 new zealand
388pp. (check °) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising
° - pagination starts at "13", but this is not preceded by twelve unnumbered pages - only four...†
† - "publishers!" (this comment is from another edition of this book)