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Editor:	Robert Asprin
Title:	Thieves' World
Publisher:	Ace Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Oct 1979
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0441805779
Cat#:	80577-9
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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sharp angular arrowhead with four-pointed star "A" above SF (logo/colophon)
ace books
a division of charter communications inc.
a grosset & dunlap company
360 park avenue south
new york, new york 10010 (usa) (lower ¼ of title page)

copyright © 1979 by robert lynn asprin
(all individual stories copyright © 1979 by their respective authors)

first ace printing: october 1979
2 4 6 8 0 9 7 5 3 1 (= first printing) (first edition)

manufactured in the united states of america

320pp including 10 mostly unpaginated pp. titles, indica, table of contents, 4pp. line-drawn maps, editor's note; 16 end pp: 14pp. "the making of thieves' world" (nf) robert lynn aspirin, 2pp. adverts: 1p. "murder and magic" randall garrett, 1p. fritz leiber "fafhrd and the gray mouser saga" listing titles #1-6 cat#s 79175, 79155, 79184, 79164, 79223, 79168; plus four other titles by leiber.
cover art by rowena morrill (attributed and signed)
cover price $1.95

original shared-world anthology
contents:
"introduction" (fiction, fantasy) robert asprin
"sentences of death" john brunner
"the face of chaos" lynn abbey
"the gate of the flying knives" poul anderson
"a few remarks by furtwan coinpinch, merchant" (unattributed°)
"shadowspawn" andrew offutt
"the price of doing business" robert lynn asprin
"blood brothers" joe haldeman
"myrtis" christine dewees
"the secret of the blue star" marion zimmer bradley

° - fictional minor third party introductory snapshot of the offutian character, "shadowspawn", so may be by offutt, or asprin (or ...)

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ppint. 21st Sep 2021		robert asprin is the same person as robert lynn asprin, q.v. neither is a pseudonym nor a pen-name; he changed his name to include his partner, lynn abbey q.v.'s first name.



ppint. 5th Aug 2018		thieves' world shared-world original anthology series #1: there are twelve in the original shared-world anthology series: #1: ''thieves' world'' (1979), (this book) #2: "tales from the vulgar unicorn" (1980), q.v. #3: "shadows of sanctuary" (1981), q.v. #4: "storm season" (1982), q.v. #5: "the face of chaos" (1983), q.v. #6: "wings of omen" (1984), q.v. #7: "the dead of winter" (1985), q.v. #8: "soul of the city" (1986), q.v. #9: "blood ties" (1986), q.v. #10: "aftermath" (1987), q.v. #11: "uneasy alliances" (1988), q.v. #12: "stealers' sky" (1989), q.v.

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