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Author:Barbara Hambly
Title:The Silent Tower
Publisher:  Del Rey
Country:USA
Date:Dec 1986
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0345337646
Barcode:07099933764
Cat#:33764
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ppint.
22nd Sep 2021
 bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 7099 00550 8 33764

of which only the last element is unique to and identifies this book, being its cat#
 
 
ppint.
14th Sep 2021
 antryg windrose/darkmage/ferryth series (originally a duology, then five years later arguably a trilogy, then in 1994 became a more open series of four ferryth novels incorporating the three earlier novels) #1:

#1: ''the silent tower'' (1986), (this book)
#2: ''the silicon mage'' (1988), q.v.
#3: ''dog wizard'' (1993), q.v.
#4: ''stranger at the wedding'' (1994), q.v.
aka: ''sorcerer's ward'' (1994 uk), q.v.

omnibus edition of #1 & #2:
#O: ''darkmage'' (doubleday science fiction book club 1987), q.v.

uncollected, so-far unprinted (alas!) but e-published novelettes in the same mixed-feeling real world-fantasy world setting of ferryth:

a: ''firemaggot'' (2009)
b: ''corridor'' (2011)
c: ''plus-one'' (2012)
d: ''personal paradise'' (2014)
e: ''zenobie'' (2015)
 
 
ppint.
14th Sep 2021
 ballantine books del rey series/imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

dedication: to the memory of judy-lynn

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed dks, also credited)
b+w map ''a portion of the empire of ferryth'' by shelly shapiro (signed)
cover price $5.50 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $3.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution)
384pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, 1p. b+w map etc, 7 end pp: 1p. about the author, 1p. advertising the darwath trilogy mmpbs, 5 blank pp.
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: december 1986

type copy described is the canadian-carcassed variant:
end pp.. advertising details may differ in the wholly merkin-printed variant;
and wholly merkin-printed bar-code number is liable to be 0 70999 00395 8(?) 33764

dedicatee ''judy-lynn'' is(was) the editor and sf editor responsible in very large part for the recovery of ballantine books under random house/rca/s. i. newhouse (etc) ownership after the intext publishers fiasco had almost destroyed ian & betty ballantine's belovéd child.
judy-lynn del rey (née benjamin)...
 

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