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Author:	Paul Linebarger as Cordwainer Smith
Title:	The Instrumentality Of Mankind
Publisher:	Del Rey
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1979
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0345277163
Cat#:	27716
Total Editions:	2
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ppint. 7th Feb 2022		reprint collection of eleven short stories and three novelettes with introduction by frederik pohl contents: timeline of instrumentality of mankind stories drawn by j. j. pierce introduction (nf) by frederik pohl no, no, not rogov! (short story) if vol.9 #2, 2/1959, b+w illustration by ed emshwiller war no. 81-Q (ss) (rewritten in/by 1987 from the original in the adjutant vol. ix #1, 6/1928) mark elf (ss) saturn vol.1 #2, 5/1957 as ''mark xi'', b+w illustration by john giunta the queen of the afternoon (novelette) (posthumous collaboration with genevieve linebarger, originally published as solely by cordwainer smith in) galaxy vol.39 #4, 4/1978; cover story art + four b+w illustrations by cecelia cosentini when the people fell (ss) galaxy vol.17 #4, 4/1959, galaxy bre #73 think blue, count two (ntte) galaxy vol. 21 #3, 2/1963 the colonel came back from the nothing-at-all (ss) (seems to be original to this collection) from gustible's planet (ss) if vol.12 #3, 7/1962, if bre #17 (7/1962) drunkboat (ntte) amazing vol.37 #10, 10/1963; cover story art + a b+w illustration, both by lloyd birmingham western science is so wonderful (ss) if vol.9 #1, 12/1958 nancy (ss) satellite vol.3 #4, 3/1959 as ''the nancy routine'' the five of bodidharma (ss) fantastic vol.8 #6, 6/1959 (reprinted in great science fiction #2, 1966) angerhelm (ss) ''star science fiction 6'' ed. frederik pohl (1959) the good friends (ss) worlds of tomorrow vol.1 #4, 10/1963 (the last five stories are not instrumentality of mankind stories)



ppint. 7th Feb 2022		random house group ballantine books imprint simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition del rey series cover art by michael herring (credited) cover price $2.50 (canadadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $1.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 256pp? (check!) including xvi pp. titles, indica, table-of-contents, timeline, introduction by frederik pohl, etc, end pp. advertising no priority established between the two variants, nor liable to be; both state first edition: may 1979 some low thousands or high hundreds of copies, probably of the wholly merkin-printed variant, imported and distributed in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni (and perhaps a little beyond) by futura publications bearing uk price in black on a peelable white sticker



ppint. 7th Feb 2022		random house group ballantine books imprint del rey series mmpb second printing cover art by michael herring (credited, retained from first printings, but cover design changed: turquoisey-blue framing of slightly reduced major part of original, with new typography) cover price $2.95 240pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents, introduction by frederik pohl, etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Paul Linebarger - The Instrumentality Of Mankind - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 0345323017 (1985)