According to Farmer's note this is the work of
'James Caliban,
M.D.'
In the UK 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...
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in The Mad Goblin
| Lord of the
Trees
New York, NY: Ace Books
Ace Double, # 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
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-441-49252-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
05/1980 (2nd)
not dated [= unknown] (3rd)
374
$ 2.50
uncredited [= 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.
Enric
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Keepers
of the Secrets
London: Sphere Books
Fantasy
ISBN 0-7221-3489-4
paperback (18×11cm)
12/1983 (1st)
-/1984 (2nd)
152
£ 1.50
uncredited [= unknown]
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note.
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Keepers of the Secrets
London: Severn House
-
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
US$ 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
note.
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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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London: Titan Books
Science Fiction / A Wold Newton Novel
ISBN 978-1-78116-299-6
trade paperback (20,5×13cm)
06/2013
205
£ 7.99 (US $ 12.95)
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With an afterword, "A Feast Revealed", by Win Scott Eckert.
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London: Titan Books
ISBN 978-1-78116-300-9
ebook
06/2013
(205)
£ 6.39
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With an afterword, "A Feast Revealed", by Win Scott Eckert.
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Russian: Бесноватый
гоблин Besnovatyy goblin
in Миры Филипа Фармера
- T. 23
in Miry Filipa Farmera - T. 23
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-421-8
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
05/1998
384
not priced
V. Vatik
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Last Gift.
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