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Author:	Anne McCaffrey
Title:	The Ship Who Sang
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Mar 1970
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	01881-8
Total Editions:	5
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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SBN 345-01881-8-095

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ppint. 25th Dec 2017		ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition° cover art by alessandro biffignandi cover price 95¢ 248pp? including titles, indica etc. refer to publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority given, though later printings give the canadian publication month as april ° - the walker books h/cvr edition is the first edition



ppint. 5th Sep 2021		the brainships series: #1: ''the ship who sang'' (1969), this fix-up novel) #2: ''partnership'' anne mccaffrey, margaret ball (1992), q.v. #3: ''the ship who searched'' anne mccaffrey, mercedes lackey (1992), q.v. #4: ''the city who fought'' anne mccaffrey, s. m. stirling (1993), q.v. #5: ''the ship who won'' anne mccaffrey, jody lynn nye (1994), q.v. #6: ''the ship errant'' jody lynn nye (1996), q.v. #7: ''the ship avenged'' anne mccaffrey, s. m. stirling (1997), q.v. the brainships are anne's conceptualisation and rather more human realisation of the classic science fiction cyborg theme, including a moral and practical reason people might be ''cyborged''. the planet pirates trilogy is evidently set in the same universe, as these share details with #4 above: #1: ''sassinak'' anne mccaffrey, elizabeth moon (1990), q.v. for series listing, and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Aug 2021		transworld publishers corgi books imprint fifth printing, with new isbn and cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited) cover price £1.50, $6.25 new zealand 208pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising indica publishing history adds reissued 1982 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Aug 2021		transworld publishers corgi books imprint second printing, with new isbn, new cover art by angus mckie (unsigned, uncredited;) cover price 65p, $2.00 australia, $2.15 new zealand indica printing history adds line corgi edition reissued 1975 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (yr hmbl srppnt.'d've thought this an obvious candidate for the ''corgi sf collector's library'' as it is just as much a classic as many collected therein, and this reprint was well within the 1969-76 lifetime of that uniform cover design series - but, instead, it was given angus mckie's perfectly competent, but not particularly appropriate, and rather uninspiring, cover art.)(''publishers!!'') 1977 corgi books near-identical third printing differs: cover price 80p (?oversea territories prices?) indicia printing history adds reprinted 1977 (and gives previous printing's date as reissued 1976) 1979 corgi books near-identical fourth printing differs: cover price (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Aug 2021		transworld publishers corgi books imprint first uk p/b edition, first printing cover art by gianetta coppola (credited on back cover) cover price 30p, 95c australia, 90c new zealand 208pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Aug 2021		andré deutsch rapp+whiting imprint first uk h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by lawrence edwards cover (d-j) price (check) 248pp? including titles, indica etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards fix-up of one novella, four novelettes, and a short story: contents/incorporated stories: the ship who sang (novelette) f&sf vol.20 #4, 4/1961; f&sf atlas bre vol.2 #9, 8/1961 the ship who mourned (ntte) analog vol. lxxvii #1, 3/1966 (listed as a short story) b+w illustration by (frank) kelly freas the ship who killed (ntte) galaxy vol.25 #1, 10/1966 two b+w illustrations by nochem yeshaya nodel dramatic mission (novella) analog vol. lxxxiii #4, 1/1969 (as a short novel) two b+w illustrations by leo summers the ship who dissembled (ntte) if vol.19 #3, 3/1969 as ''the ship who disappeared'', b+w illustration by brock the partnered ship (short story) (original to the novel) the first of the brainship books, whose universe also evidently includes the planet pirates trilogy as they share details: #1: ''sassinak'' anne mccaffrey, elizabeth moon (1990), q.v. for that series listing, and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang - Rapp & Whiting - Hardcover - UK - 0853911770 (1971)

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Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 0552091154 (1972)

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Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 055210163X (1975)

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Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 0552119369 (1982)