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Author:	Michael Moorcock
Title:	The Jewel In The Skull
Publisher:	Lancer
Country:	USA
Date:	1967
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
Cat#:	73-688
Total Editions:	7
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 9th Oct 2020		david: thanks, yes; the normal practice of many/most merkin mmpb publishers was to produce simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing the merkin-printed covers, shipping some of these to canada to put on the canadian-printed carcasses, and retaining most of them to put on the merkin-printed carcasses. but to help simplify life for later bibliographers, they didn't always do this, even through the decades they usually adhered to the practice. so far as i know, i've as yet seen no copy of this mmpb stating in its indicia that the carcass (or ''book'', in some mmpb publishers' usage) was printed in canada, though lancer books, inc. is one of the merkin publishers that for a couple of decades or so usually did this - but nor did i think to record this information in 1967-69, when i was still reading pretty well all the moorcock i came across, and nor have i read any report of the printing history in copies held by collectors, previous to yours, since. any printed statement actually on the card covers (usually on the outside, on the back; but sometimes on their otherwise unprinted-upon inside) would be expected to say that they were printed in the u.s.a. (except on the relatively rare occasions when they were printed in canada, i believe for legal reasons which had tax implications); there would usually be a statement - it was a merkin legal requirement - of the country in which the book carcass (again, or ''book'', in some mmpb publishers' parlance) was printed in its indicia, often this was implicit, just ''printed in the u.s.a.'', sometimes also including specific mention of the covers. - hence my request for bookcatters to check, and report.



David Whiteley 9th Oct 2020		Added front and back covers. Printed in USA



ppint. 27th Oct 2019		lancer books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art gray morrow (art is signed "gray morrow") cover price 60¢ 176pp? including titles, indicia etc. refer to indicia to see if it is stated carcass ("book") was canadadian-printed: if you have/have access to such a copy of this edition, please check the indicia and post a comment "here" on bookcat giving the wording of the statement of the book's printing. thank-you. love, ppint.



ppint. 7th Apr 2018		the (history of the) runestaff series #1 (the first hawkmoon series: the second is the chronicles of castle brass, q.v.) #1: ''the jewel in the skull'' (1967) (this book) #2: "sorcerer's amulet" (1968), q.v., aka "the mad god's amulet" (1969), q.v. #3: "sword of the dawn" (1968), q.v., aka ''the sword of the dawn'' (1969 & ff.), q.v., #4: "the runestaff" (1969), q.v., aka "the secret of the runestaff (1969), q.v. the chronicles of castle (or count) brass: the second hawkmoon series, commences with "count brass": #5 (2#1): "count brass" (1973), q.v. #6 (2#2): "the champion of garathorm" (1973), q.v. #7 (2#3): "the quest for tanelorn" (1975), q.v.



ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Review - well, what else could one do with dorian hawkmoon's brain ?° ° - see back cover blurb... gloom, doom and the depths of despondency doing duty providing a typically moorcockian dark flavour to this stage in the central character's career towards his eventual but certain early death - or worse(!) - michael moorcock pretty much defined this style or school of sword'n'sorcery, not as a tame copy of robert e. howard's simple strongarm swordsman, but one ever at risk of being cheated or downright double-crossed by his temporary employers, even - perhaps especially (?) - if they gain very nearly all they hire his swords to win. moorcock also introduced the idea of a constant struggle between opposing forces aimed at or personifying the dedication to the imposition of unalterable law, implacable and cruel in the name of justice - and the drive towards the ultimate chaos of purest entropy, equally unlovable and unlivable-with by humanity, a discord driving events as powerful as - or totally replacing - the hitherto traditional fantasy dichotomy of good and evil. - and he **loathed & hated tolkien's "the lord of the rings**" - ignore the idiotic lancer books cover blurb. (this review is from another edition of this book) 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 22nd Nov 2020		white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by james cawthorn (signed almost illegibly ''j. cawthorn'') cover (d-j) price £1.60 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards d-j prob'ly (almost certainly) bears the sbn, not the isbn (= no initial '0'), but i didn't note this) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Oct 2020		first mayflower books ltd. uk p/b printing, first uk edition (mayflower books had been sold by dell publishing, inc. to the granada group in 1967, and transferred into granada publishing to join panther books ltd, etc. in 1968, but seem to've retained some identity independent of panther books for a while.) the (history of) the runestaff #1: #1: ''the jewel in the skull'' (lancer books, 1967), q.v. for series listing, and links. cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed (not by bob haberfield) logo in top fly corner front cover is large angular white ''M'' bleeding into white cartouche containing ''mayflower'' in white, over cat# in white cover price 5/-, south africa 60c, australia 80c, new zealand 75c 160pp. including titles, indicia etc; end pp. advertising cover does not bear an sbn (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 9th Oct 2020		Added back cover of the 1973 edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Jul 2019		number in isbn10 field is^W was still wrong and should^W has now been corrected to the sbn this edition actually bears, ''583113680'' mayflower books third uk p/b printing (probably near-identical with mayflower books second printing) cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, uncredited; another printing credits, though as ''bob habberfield'') cover price 30p, australia & new zealand $1.00, canada $1.25 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. later mayflower books printings may have borne the isbn ''0583113680'' on the cover but this does not; the appending of a further digit does not turn an sbn into an isbn: its purpose, function or use upon granada publishing group p/bs may have been purely internal, and has prob'ly long been forgotten. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th May 2018		number in the isbn10 field is still incorrect. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th Nov 2017		the number in the isbn10 field is not an isbn10. the final digit of the number in the isbn10 field should be deleted to leave the sbn9 number borne by this book (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - Mayflower - Paperback - UK - 583113680 (1973)

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - Lodestone - Paperback - USA (1972)

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - Lancer Books - Paperback - USA (1973)

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - Daw - Paperback - USA (1977)

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - Mayflower - Paperback - UK (1969)

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Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull - White Lion - Hardcover - UK - 0856174742 (1973)