‘Sword Of The Dawn’

Sword Of The Dawn

New York:  Lancer, 1968 mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “The History Of The Runestaff: Volume Three” on title page;
original price:  60¢;
191 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  none (code: 73-761);
cover artist:  Jack Faragasso;
no other edition (by this [specific] title).

Third volume in the first of two separate series featuring Duke Dorian Hawkmoon von Köln, Sword Of The Dawn was titled thus once only, for its first edition, before being slightly retitled as THE Sword Of The Dawn (1969). As such, it was later revised (initially in the U.S.A. only) in 1977. Unrevised, it was collected in 1979 with The Jewel In The Skull (1967), The Mad God’s Amulet (1968/’69) and The Runestaff (1969) in the omnibus, The History Of The Runestaff, which was also later retitled (with the revised texts for the first time in the U.K.) as Hawkmoon (1993) and Hawkmoon: The History Of The Runestaff (2013), whilst in 2010 an illustrated edition of Sword… was (again) slightly retitled, this time as Hawkmoon: The Sword Of The Dawn.

(Preceded by Sorcerer’s Amulet [a.k.a. The Mad God’s Amulet])

First edition

First revised edition: New York: DAW Books, 1977 (July) mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “Volume Three Of The History Of The Runestaff” on title page;
original price:  $1·25;
173 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  0-87997-310-2;
cover artist:  Richard Clifton-Dey;
illustrated by John Collier (maps [of ‘The Realm Of The Runestaff’ (Europe and Amarehk)]).

First British edition: London: Mayflower, 1969 (April 3rd) mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “The History Of The Runestaff: Volume Three” on title page;
original price:  4/-;
144 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  none (code: 114342);
cover artist:  Bob Haberfield.

Reprinted 1969

Mayflower paperback, 1972;
original price:  30p;
144 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  583-11434-2;
cover artist:  Bob Habberfield (sic).

Reprinted 1973, ’74, ’75 (40p).

First hardcover edition: London: White Lion, 1973 (November) hardcover;
no sub-title;
original price:  £1·60;
142 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  85617-005-4;
cover artist:  James Cawthorn.

Mayflower paperback, 1977 (50p).

Assorted DAW reprints

3rd printing, 0-87997-392-7 ($1·50).
4th printing, 0-87997-631-4 ($1·95).
5th printing, 0-87997-838-4 ($2·25).
6th printing, 221 pages (including Europe map only), 0-88677-045-9 ($2·75).
8th printing, 221 pages (including Europe map only), 0-88677-173-0 ($2·95) + later reprints?

New York: Ace, 1990 (September) mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “Volume Three Of The History Of The Runestaff” on title page;
revised text;
original price:  $3·95;
173 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  0-441-31846-0;
cover artist:  Jill Bauman;
illustrated by John Collier (maps).

Granada paperback, 1980 (May);
sub-titled “The History Of The Runestaff: Volume Three” on title page;
unrevised text;
original price:  95p;
144 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  0-583-11434-2;
cover artist:  Bob Habberfield (sic).

Reprinted 1981 (£1·25), ’84 (£1·95).

Grafton paperback, 1986 (June);
sub-titled “The History Of The Runestaff: Volume Three” on title page;
unrevised text;
original price:  £1·95;
144 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  0-583-11434-2;
cover artist:  Richard Clifton-Dey.

(Followed by The Secret Of The Runestaff [a.k.a. The Runestaff])

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The Sword Of The Dawn is also available as an e-book: 9780575110182.