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Author:	M. A. Foster
Title:	The Warriors Of Dawn
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Jan 1975
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Society
Cat#:	UY1152
Total Editions:	6
Rating:	9.0 Rate
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ppint. 8th Dec 2020		the ler trilogy #2, though the first-published: #1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links. daw books simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed, also credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover price $1.25 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 135 280pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ''an explanatory note on ler names'' (nf) m. a. foster, advertising pp. refer to printing history to distinguish between canadadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, and wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution daw books undated third and simultaneous canadadian second mmpb printings (4/1977 from locus #201, 5/1977) sharing merkin-printed covers with redesigned, bolder, straight-line front cover typography, also differ: isbn 0-87997-291-2 cat# UW1291 cover price $1.50 drop near-meaningless daw books collector no. from front cover refer to printing history to distinguish between canadadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, and the wholly merkin-printed third printing copies intended for general distribution merkin third printing retrospectively accounting the canadadian-carcassed first printing copies as the second printing: n.b. this canadadian second printing which is indicated by dropping the digit '1' from the number line, leaving 23456789, is later retrospectively accounted the fourth daw books mmpb printing; daw books, simultaneous undated fifth & sixth mmpb printings (10/1980 from locus #239, 11/1980) near-identical with third printing, differ: cover price $1.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) cover price $2.25 (canadadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cat# UJ1573 isbn 0-87997-573-3 refer to printing history to distinguish between wholly merkin-printed fifth printing which drops the digit '4' to give number line 56789 and canadadian-carcassed sixth printing which drops the digit '5' leaving number line 6789 unfortunately bearing the same printing history number line (but a different cover price), is what is logically necessarily the daw books seventh mmpb printing (undated, 7/1982 by interpolation of cat#), near-identical except: cat# UE1751 isbn 0-87997-751-5 cover price $2.50 next known printing is thankfully undated (1/1985) (date from jaffrey) daw books eighth mmpb printing, which differs: cover art by frank kelly freas is reversed left-right and his signature is matted out new style daw logo cat# UE1994 isbn 0-87997-994-1 cover price (canada $3.75) • u.s. $3.25 printing history number line 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16



ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		yr hmbl srppnt. needs to re-read ''the day of the klesh'' a second time, to be certain whether the ler series truly constitutes a thematic trilogy, or rests an absorbing but unbalanced series whose focus shifts so greatly, that the theme is fractured beyond the point of achieving more over-all than the sum of its parts. i didn't consider it for inclusion in holocaus^W happy hamlyn paperbacks' sf & fantasy list, because hamlyn paperbacks was collapsed by its incompetent mangling-director walter clare before the question arose; but it'd've been a certainty. this is a good-to-very good novel, in a good-to-very good series, which it is as well as the introduction of a unique concept into science fiction; i'm just not certain/convinced the series actually remains centered upon the twin underlying conceptual themes of the first two books. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		the ler series #2, though first- written & published: #1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977), q.v. #2: ''the warriors of dawn'' (1975), (this novel) #3: ''the day of the klesh'' (1979), q.v. omnibus edition of #2, #1, #3: #O: ''the book of the ler'' (2016), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Dec 2020		either daw books third mmpb printing, or their simultaneous second canadadian-carcassed printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Dec 2020		daw books undated fifth mmpb printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Dec 2020		daw books seventh printing, though printing history number line still states 6789. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Oct 2020		m. a. foster is the form of his name used as his published by-line by michael anthony foster. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Oct 2020		hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition cover art by george underwood (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.10, £1.21 rep. of ireland, $3.95 australia 300pp. including titles, indicia etc, an explanatory afterword on ler names (nf), end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879979941 (1985)

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M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879972912 (1977)

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M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879975733 (1980)

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M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879977515 (1982)

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M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn - Hamlyn Paperbacks - Paperback - UK - 0600394190 (1979)