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Author:	Marion Zimmer Bradley
Title:	The Shattered Chain
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Apr 1976
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	UW 1229
Total Editions:	4
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 21st Feb 2019		daw books mmpb simultaneous near-identical printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art & b+w frontispiece by george barr (cover credited, both signed) near-meaningless daw books number 191 cover price $1.50 288pp? including titles, indicia etc. 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 and number-string, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (next, third printing (printing history number-string 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) and following bear cover art by richard hescox, different cat#s, isbns, prices and is a separate bookcat item, q.v..)



ppint. 19th Feb 2019		the date of this edition of the shattered chain: it was published 4/1976. the date of this edition of the shattered chain should^W has now been changed to 4/1976.



ppint. 19th Feb 2019		the shattered chain was first published in 1976, not 1981. first published year date for the shattered chain should be changed to 1976, or just deleted.



JPGR&B SUBS ● 18th Feb 2019		Actioned (Mod).



ppint. 17th Feb 2019		this 1976 first edition. . . was probably not published five years before the first publication of this book. first published year date should be corrected to 1976 from 1981, or else deleted.



ppint. 10th Apr 2024		#10 in the darkover series (1964-2016): first in the "free amazons" trilogy (#10, #11 & #12); #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Apr 2024		london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by melvyn grant (full painting may be signed melvyn) cover price 95p, $2.90 australia 272pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Feb 2019		cover art by michael whelan, from the ace books 5/1979 (& reprints) expanded edition of "the bloody sun", q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Feb 2019		daw books mmpb simultaneous third and fourth printings sharing cover art by richard hescox (signed, though wrongly credited to george barr in fourth printing) b+w frontispiece by george barr (signed, retained from first printings) near-meaningless daw books number dropped from cover place in logo box taken by cover price $1.95 288pp? including titles, indicia etc. refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed. number-string also differs, 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (third printing), 4 5 6 7 8 9 (fourth printing). refer also to indicia printing history number-string after statement of first printing's date, to see which further printing is held: these progressively drop digits, to 6 7 8 9 10 11 (sixth printing). richard hescox' cover art is retained through at least the seventeenth daw books mmpb printing, with indicia printing history number-string progressively adjusted appropriately: 5th (?) 0-87997-327-7, UJ1327, $1.95 6th (?) 0-87997-327-7, UJ1327, $1.95 (liable to be canadadian-carcassed simultaneous with 5th) 7th (?) 0-87997-566-0, UE1566, $2.25 8th (?) 0-87997-683-7, UE1683, $2.50 9th (?) 0-87997-840-6, UE1840, $2.95 10th (?) 0-87997-961-5, UE1961, (canada $3.95) u.s. $3.50 all small print removed from logo yellow box 11th (?) 0-87997-961-5, UE1961, (canada $3.95) u.s. $3.50 new superimposed letters daw logo 12th (?) (not seen, nor seen reported, as yet.) 13th (12/1988 locus) 0-88677-308-3, UE2308, $3.95 14th (9/1990 locus (tyopped therein as 11th)) 0-88677-308-3, UE2308, $3.95 15th (4/1993 locus) 0-88677-308-3, UE2308, $4.50 16th (4/1997 locus) 0-88677-308-3, UE2308, $5.99 17th (?) 0-88677-308-3 UE2308, $5.99 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 19th Feb 2019		first published year date is^W was wrong and has been corrected. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - La Catena Spezzata - Editrice Nord - Paperback - Italy (1990)

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Shattered Chain - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879973277 (1977)

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Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Shattered Chain - Arrow - Paperback - UK - 0099167107 (1978)