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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
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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.)

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Number: 1310592  THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: davie gordon
Description: front cover


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)

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