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..)
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)
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)
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)