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Author:Philip José Farmer
Title:The Magic Labyrinth
Publisher:  Panther
Country:UK
Date:Jan 1981
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0586053875
Total Editions:4
First Published:  1980
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Community: 2 Own
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Number: 2342724  THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: David Whiteley
Description: 1st UK edition

Number: 2342728 
Uploaded By: David Whiteley
Description: Signed by PJF

Number: 2342729 
Uploaded By: David Whiteley
Description: PJF flyer

Number: 3179707 
Uploaded By: David Whiteley
Description: Back cover


Number: 1495688  HIDDEN
Uploaded By: nanocyar
Description: Front Cover


Primary Edition

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Philip José Farmer - The Magic Labyrinth - Berkley - Hardcover - USA - 0399123814 (1980)

Comments and Reviews
 
David Whiteley
26th Jul 2020
 With acknowledgement to nanocyar better cover added.
Also added the title page of my signed copy obtained at London's Forbidden Planet 10th January 1981 and the flyer for that signing.
 
 
ppint.
17th Jun 2019
 first panther science fiction p/b printing, on panther books isbn

''a granada paperbacks uk original'' = vainglorious way of saying ''first uk p/b, first uk edition''

cover art by melvyn grant (credited as melvyn on rear cover, also thus signed)
cover price £1.50, australia $5.95, new zealand $5.95
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
496pp. including titles, indica etc.


near-identical reprints:

second printing 1981 (refer to indica printing history for absence/presence of line stating reprinted 1981)

third printing 1982 (1st)
cover price £1.95, australia $7.50, new zealand $7.95

fourth printing 1982 (2nd)

fifth printing 1985 on panther books isbn
still ''panther science fiction''
introduces grafton in place of granada and panther most places, as now owned by wm. collins (& sons?) ltd.
cover price £2.50, australia $6.95, new zealand $9.95

sixth printing 1986
still ''panther science fiction''
cover price £2.95,

seventh printing 1989 still on panther books isbn
but drops panther science fiction from front cover,
definitely published by grafton
but still panther granada publishing on title page
now claimed to've been a grafton paperback original in indica, which is impossible
cover price £3.50, australia $10.95, new zealand $14.95
 
 
ppint.
26th Oct 2018
 riverworld series #4:

#1: "to your scattered bodies go" (1971), q.v. for series listing and links.
 
 
ppint.
27th Feb 2018
 at least 7 near-identical p/b printings/editions sharing isbn 0586053875 and

cover art by melvyn grant (signed, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.50, australia $5.95, new zealand $5.95
so this edition should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
496pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising

synopsis:

uk cover price rising from:
£1.50 1st panther/granada 1981;
£? 2nd panther/granada /81;
£1.95 3rd panther/granada /82;
£? 4th panther/?granada or grafton? /82?;
£2.50 5th panther/grafton 1985;
£2.95 6th panther/grafton 1986;
then the "panther science fiction" line was dropped from top of front cover:
£3.50 7th grafton 1989.

(hole-filling information from your own copy/copies invited. . .)
 

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