Science fiction/fantasy novel.
According to the note by Farmer this is the work of 'James Caliban,
MD.'.
Series: Lord
Grandrith/Doc Caliban #3.
Also published with the title Keepers
of the
Secrets and together with Lord
of the Trees as The
Empire of the Nine.
DEDICATION: "For Jack Cordes, who sometimes lives in Peoria and
sometimes in the old-pulp Valhalla." (Only in the first Ace edition.)
COVER TEXT:
They were known
simply as the Nine - grim and ancient rulers who thirty thousand years
ago had discovered the key to eternal life and ever since had secretly
held the world in thrall.
Once, Doc Caliban had been their servant and had shared their secrets.
Now, appalled by their tyranny, he had turned against them, daring to
challenge their centuries-old supremacy. Together with two henchmen
whose superhuman skills match his own, Caliban sets out on the trail of
the deadliest of The Nine: the mad goblin Iwaldi, the very incarnation
of Evil...
(Sphere Books edition)
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in The Mad Goblin
| Lord of the
Trees
New York, NY: Ace Books
# 51375
SBN 441-51375-075
paperback (18×10,5cm)
09/1970
130 + 122
$ 0.75
Gray Morrow
Ace double, bound back to back, with Lord
of the Trees. With an author's
note.
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in Lord of the Trees and The Mad
Goblin
New York, NY: Ace Books
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ISBN 0-441-49252-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
05/1980 (2nd)
not dated [= unknown] (3rd)
374
$ 2.50
not credited [= Enric]
Ace double novel, with Lord
of the Trees. With an author's
note. Second and third printing indicated in a row of numbers
on the copyright page.
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UK
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Keepers
of the Secrets
London: Sphere Books
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ISBN 0-7221-3489-4
paperback (18×11cm)
12/1983 (1st)
-/1984 (2nd)
152
£ 1.50
not credited [= unknown]
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Keepers of the Secrets
London: Severn House
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ISBN 0-7278-1140-1
hardcover (20,5×13cm)
08/1985
152
£ 7.95
Nigel Hills
First hardcover, with red paper boards and gilt lettering on the spine.
With an author's
note. Kampmann distributed this book in 1987 in the USA, with
a new
price sticker. That is not a new edition also.
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Keepers of the Secrets
in The Empire of the Nine
London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7474-0366-X
trade paperback (20×13cm)
12/1988
149 + 152
£ 3.99
not credited [= Mark Salwowski]
Combined edition with Lord
of the Trees . With an author's
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Keepers of the Secrets
in The Empire of the Nine
London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7474-0366-X
trade paperback (20×13cm)
not dated [= -/1990] 2nd
149 + 152
£ 4.50
not credited [= Mark Salwowski]
Combined edition with Lord
of the Trees . With an author's
note. No indication in the book that this is a second
printing, only the cover price differs.
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RUSSIA
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Russian: Бесноватый
гоблин
in Миры Филипа Фармера
23
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-421-8
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
05/1998
384
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V. Vatik
unknown
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Last Gift.
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