NMLP P-043915 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Dragon Masters
Jack Vance · Ace Books (Ace Double Novel Books F-185), New York · 1963
No book-club printing is documented in the sources consulted for either the Ace Double or the Dobson hardcover. The reprint tells are catalogue number and format: any Ace paperback of the title lacking the F-185 number and the backed Double format is a later Ace printing, and standalone paperback issues (Mayflower and later) are reprints. On the hardcover side only the 1965 Dobson is contemporary — Underwood-Miller and Suntup hardcovers are modern small-press "first thus" editions — and a genuine Dobson should show green cloth with silver spine lettering beneath the Richard Weaver jacket.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-043915 for "The Dragon Masters" by Jack Vance (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043915, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).