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Author:	James H. Schmitz
Title:	The Telzey Toy
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Dec 1973
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	823.914
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	UQ1086
Total Editions:	5
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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published by daw books, inc. 1301 avenue of the americas, new york ny 10019 (merkia), distributed by new american library, inc.

daw UQ 1086, collector's no. 82
175pp incl. 4pp titles, b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan

collects four telzey amberdon novelettes:
the telzey toy (analog ("asf") 1/1971)
resident witch (asf 5/1970)
compulsion (asf 6/1970)
company planet (asf 5/1971)

cover art by kelly freas 95¢ cover price

the third, stand-alone book in the telzey amberdon series; book 1 being "the universe against her", book 2 being "the lion game";
other titles more or less loosely connected, being set against the same background of "the hub", including "the demon breed", "agent of vega", the short story collection, "a nice day for screaming, and other tales of the hub", etc. (& q.v.)

Comments and Reviews


ppint. 11th Sep 2018		telzey amberdon series #3: #1: "the universe against her" (1964), q.v. for series listing and links.



ppint. 9th Aug 2018		aka "the telzey toy and other stories" (1982), q.v.



ppint. 8th Apr 2023		sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by david (a.) hardy (credited on d-j back cover) restricted palette: red & black on white cover (d-j) price £2.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 17th Jan 2022		bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0727400240 80035 n.b. the second, smaller element of the bar-code is the only part uniquely identifying this book - and, indeed, this printing - in this peculiar merkin (mis-)implementation of the bar-code number system, as applied to books - in theory. (ace's five-digit cat# system that replaced their initial price code letter-plus-hree digit number system was indeed an inspired invention, a thing of wonder! - - grosset & dunlap management may not've understood it - berkley-putnam's manglement certainly did not, and committed clichés - and chronoclasms - within it, as a result.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 17th Jan 2022		berkley publishing group ace sf imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb cover art by wayne barlowe (signed with his initials in a vertical line-drawn box in base l.h. arm of arch) cover price $2.50 212pp? (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JimEss SUBS 17th Jan 2022		Added covers. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Dec 2019		berkley publishing group ace books imprint mmpb third printing cover art by wayne barlowe (signature removed with brown arch; retained from previous ace mmpb printings) cover price $2.75 cat# 80036 212pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Sep 2018		(slightly varied) alternate title for telzey amberdon series #3: #1: "the universe against her" (1964), q.v. for series listing and links. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Aug 2018		near-identical second printing also 1982 shares isbn, cat# 80035, cover art by wayne barlowe (art is signed, not credited) cover price $2.50 212pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia for presence of line stating second printing, and absence of "1" from number-string. 1984 third ace mmpb printing bears a white border archless cover design, new typography, cat# 80036 isbn 0-441-80036-X cover price $2.75 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Aug 2018		aka "the telzey toy" (1973), q.v., including for contents listing and details of where first published. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Nov 2017		first book publication 1973, not 1982 edit: error corrected by the wolf moon of 17/1/2022. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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James H. Schmitz - The Telzey Toy - Hamlyn - Paperback - UK - 0600200574 (1983)

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James H. Schmitz - The Telzey Toy And Other Stories - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441800351 (1982)

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James H. Schmitz - The Telzey Toy And Other Stories - Ace - Paperback - USA - 044180036X (1984)

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James H. Schmitz - The Telzey Toy - Sidgwick & Jackson - Hardcover - UK (1976)