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The Green Odyssey
Genre Science Fiction
Type Novel
Series
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Philip José Farmer's first book publication.
Farmer planned to write a sequel, The Greeniad.
Also published as Audio Book (2006, and 2015).
DEDICATION: "To Nan Gerding."
COVER TEXT:
Alan Green is not exactly a hero. In fact, he likes peace and quiet just as well as the next man. Not that he is really afraid of that crazy, hot-blooded hound dog Alzo, or even of the hound's equally hot-blooded owner, the beautiful Duchess Zuni. After all, on this backward, violent planet a man can manage nicely, providing he is alert twenty-four hours a day. The trouble with Alan is that he's tired - and homesick. So when he hears of two other downed spacemen from Earth, he hitches a ride with a greedy merchant-captain on a windroller destined to carry him to their spaceship. What he isn't prepared for are the vagaries of the windroller, pirates, the "traveling islands" that devour everything in their path, and the flora and fauna peculiar to this planet. In order to make it to the spaceship alive, it seems that Alan Green may have to be a hero after all.
(Book of the Month Club)
 
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56 Publications
See also:
Ghost Editions
US

Publisher
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Price
Cover art
Notes
FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
H-210
no ISBN
hardcover (21×14,5cm)
06/1957
152
$ 2.75
uncredited [= unknown]
First hardcover. Both Ballantine editions were published simultaneously. Grey cloth boards, with green lettering on the spine. No statement of edition on the copyright page. Most of the small print-run of the hardcover went to (military) libraries.
The cover art is not by Richard Powers, as was stated by many!


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Notes
FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
# 210
no ISBN
paperback (18×11cm)
06/1957
152
$ 0.35
Richard Powers
Both Ballantine editions were published simultaneously.


Richard Powers
Publisher
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Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
U2345
no ISBN
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
10/1966 (2nd)
152
$ 0.50
Richard Powers
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Richard Powers
Publisher
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Format
Date
Pages
Price
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Notes
Boston, MA: Gregg Press
The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series
ISBN 0-8398-2414-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21×14cm)
06/1978
xv + 152
$ 9.00
none
Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. A photographic reprint —including the copyright page— of the 1957 Ballantine paperback edition.
Russell Letson wrote an introduction for this edition.

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Publisher
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Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
New York, NY: Berkley Books
-
ISBN 0-425-06159-0
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
09/1983
215
$ 2.50
Carl Lundgren

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Carl Lundgren
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
New York, NY: Book-of-the-Month Club
-
no ISBN
hardcover (20,5×14cm)
07/1990
152
not priced [= $ 14.95]
Robert C. Raines
Green paper boards, pink cloth spine with green gilt lettering on the spine. With date code 'HB 6 V' on page 152.

Robert C. Raines
Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
New York, NY: Renaissance eBooks / PageTurner
ISBN 1-58873-223-1 | ASIN B000FBFLPI
ebook
08/2003
(184)
$ 4.00
Albert Nuetzell
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Albert Nuetzell
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
Shreveport, LA: Ramble House
-
no ISBN
paperback (14,5×10,5cm)
-/2003
275
$ 20.00
Gavin L. O'Keefe
Small and extremely limited paperback edition, from a small publisher. It has a brown paper cover with a black-white illustration and a color dustjacket. With doodles by Knees Calhoon. You can call this book a kind of a 'testcase' for the later definitive edition of 2004, see the next entry.

Gavin L. O'Keefe
Publisher
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Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
Shreveport, LA: Ramble House
-
no ISBN
paperback (14,5×10,5cm)
05/2004
vii + 281
$ 20.00
Gavin L. O'Keefe
Small limited paperback edition, from a small publisher. The paper cover has the same color illustration as the dustjacket. With an introduction by Roger Crombie and illustrated by Gavin L. O'Keefe.

Gavin L. O'Keefe
Publisher
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Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing
-
ISBN 1-4191-6497-X
large trade paperback (23,5×19cm)
not dated [= 06/2004]
153
not priced [= $ 21.95]
-
No copyright information in the book, and neither a date of publication. It looks like a text book.

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Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
-: ManyBooks
ISBN B000K1UT50
ebook
03/2005
153
free
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Download for free at Manybooks.

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Pages
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Notes
West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
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ISBN 1-60096-383-8
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
08/2006
180
not priced [= $ 10.95]
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Notes
West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
-
ISBN 1-60096-492-3
trade paperback (22,5×15,5cm)
08/2006
234
not priced [= $ 12.95]
-
Large Print Edition. 

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Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
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Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
Classic Books Library
ISBN 978-1-60096-768-9
trade paperback (23×15cm)
03/2007
180
not priced [= $ 10.95]
-
A Print-on-Demand publication.

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Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
[Rockville, MD:] Brownstone Books (Wildside)
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8495-6
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×15cm)
not dated [= 09/2007]
152
not priced [= $ 24.95]
-
A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A Print-on-Demand publication.

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Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
[Rockville, MD:] Brownstone Books (Wildside)
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8494-9
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
not dated [= 09/2007]
152
not priced [= $ 13.95]
-
A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A Print-on-Demand publication.

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Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover design
Notes
West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
Boomer Books
ISBN 978-1-4341-0072-6
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
not dated [= 07/2008]
192
not priced [= $ 12.95]
-
Newly designed and typeset for easy reading.

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Publisher
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Bookno.
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Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
[Rockville, MD:] Wildside Press
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8495-6
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×15cm)
not dated [= 01/2011]
152
not priced [= $ 24.95]
Antonis Papantoniou
Pictorial boards. A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A Print-on-Demand publication.

Antonis Papantoniou
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
[Rockville, MD:] Wildside Press
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8494-9
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
not dated [= 01/2011]
152
not priced [= $ 9.99]
Antonis Papantoniou
A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A Print-on-Demand publication.

Antonis Papantoniou
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
Floyd, VA: Positronic Publishing
-
ISBN 978-1-5154-0346-3
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
not dated [= 01/2016]
133
not priced [= $ 7.99]
Catmando
A Print-on-Demand publication.

Catmando
Omnibus
Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
in The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1
Floyd, VA: Positronic Publishing
ISBN 978-1-5154-0363-0
ebook omnibus
02/2016
(-)
$ 1.99
AtelierSommerland
Ebook omnibus with six novels (one by Farmer), two novellas, a novelette and a short story.

AtelierSommerland
Omnibus
Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
in The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1
New York, NY: Start Publishing
ISBN 978-1-68299-956-1
ebook omnibus
03/2016 [ebook gives 07/2015]
(-)
$ 1.99
Yumikrum
Ebook omnibus with six novels (one by Farmer), two novellas, a novelette and a short story. The book gives a publication date of 07/2015, Amazon gives 03/2016.

Yumikrum
UK
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7221-3440-1
paperback (18×11cm)
07/1976
-/1976 (2nd)
157
£ 0.60
uncredited [= Angus McKie]
-

Angus McKie
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7221-3440-1
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1983 (3rd)
157
£ 1.75
uncredited [= Angus McKie]
-

Angus McKie
Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
London: Gateway / Orion
ISBN 978-0-575-11977-2
ebook
01/2013
(157)
£ 2.99 ($ 4.79)
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Publisher
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Cover art
Notes
London: Gateway Essentials
ISBN 978-0-575-11977-2
ebook
-/2017
(157)
£ 2.99
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FRANCE
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
French: L'odyssée verth
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-01093-X
paperback (17,5×11cm)
04/1982
03/1984
191
not priced
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
French: L'odyssée verte
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-02764-6
paperback (17,5×11cm)
12/1988
191
not priced
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
-

Wojtek Siudmak
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
French: L'odyssée verte
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-02764-6
paperback (17,5×11cm)
02/1990
04/1992
191
not priced
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
-

Wojtek Siudmak
GERMANY
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Moewig Verlag
Terra Sonderband Nr. 57
no ISBN
magazine (19,5×14cm)
-/1962
93
DM 1,00
Lothar Heinecke
uncredited [= Karl Stephan]
Abriged version.

Karl Stephan
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Translation
Cover design
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 3127
no ISBN
paperback (18×11,5cm)
09/1968
-/1969 (2nd)
158
not priced [DM 2,40]
Wulf H. Bergner
uncredited [= Ed Emshwiller]
-

Ed Emshwiller
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Welten der Zukunft (Band 4)
München: Heyne
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Band 1004
ISBN 3-453-31150-7
paperback (19×12,5cm)
01/1985
413
DM 10,00
Wulf H. Bergner
Karel Thole
Subtitle: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 4. Omnibus, together with novels by Chad Oliver and John Brunner.

Karel Thole
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen
Stuttgart: Das Beste
Nr. 117
ISBN 3-87070-353-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20×13,5cm)
-/1990
383
not priced [= DM 26,90]
Wulf H. Bergner
Kee Hwa Jeum
Pictorial boards. PJF's novel is illustrated by Hans-Günter Hauptmann. Omnibus, together with a novel, The Thing, by Alan Dean Foster. Silver lettering on the cover and the spine.

Kee Hwa Jeum
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 4854
ISBN 3-453-05375-3
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1991 (1st)
-/1992 (2nd)
767
DM 16,80
Wulf H. Bergner
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, together with The Stone God Awakens and Lord Tyger.

Boris Vallejo
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates

Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 4854
ISBN 3-453-05375-3
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1993 (3rd)
-/1994 (4th)
767
DM 16,90
Wulf H. Bergner
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, together with The Stone God Awakens and Lord Tyger.

Boris Vallejo
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Dates
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 4854
ISBN 3-453-05375-3
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1996 (5th)
767
DM 18,90
Wulf H. Bergner
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, together with The Stone God Awakens and Lord Tyger.

Boris Vallejo
ITALY
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Italian: Pianeta in via di sviluppo
Bologna: Libra
Slan (Il Meglio della Fantascienza) 2
no ISBN
hardcover (21×14,5cm)
05/1970
216
L 2.000
Gianni Aimach
none
This book was originally published without a dustjacket. Copies that were sold later got the, somewhat too small, dustjacket of the second edition, priced at L 4.000, with the cover illustration by Allison.

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Notes
Italian: Pianeta in via di sviluppo
Bologna: Libra
Slan (Il Meglio della Fantascienza) 2
no ISBN
hardcover (20,5×14cm)
03/1977 (2nd)
268
L 4.000
Gianni Aimach
Allison
With a sixteen pages long introduction by Ugo Malaguti. This edition falsely gives the printing date of the first edition as 05/1970.

Allison
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Italian: La rotta verde
Milan: Mondadori
Classici Urania N. 234
no ISBN (ISSN 1120-4966)
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
09/1996
222
L 6.500
Barbara Piccioli
Marco Patrito
With an introduction by Riccardo Valla and a selected bibliography.

Marco Patrito
JAPAN
Title
Latin
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Japanese: 緑の星のオデッセイ
Midori no hoshi no odessei
Tokyo: Hayakawa
ハヤカワ文庫・SF 5
no ISBN
paperback (16×11cm)
08/1970
279
¥ 200
Toru Yano
Keizo Iwabuchi
With an afterword by Ito Norio. Illustrated by
Keizo Iwabuchi. Also a list of Farmer's original books and their Japanese translations till 1970.

Keizo Iwabuchi
Title
Latin
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Japanese: 緑の星のオデッセイ
Midori no hoshi no odessei
Tokyo: Hayakawa
ハヤカワ文庫・SF 5
no ISBN
paperback (16×11cm)
not dated [= unknown]
279
¥ 340
Toru Yano
Keizo Iwabuchi
With an afterword by Ito Norio. Illustrated by
Keizo Iwabuchi. Also a list of Farmer's original books and their Japanese translations till 1970.  The book has the same copyright information as with the first printing.

Keizo Iwabuchi
Title
Latin
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Japanese: 緑の星のオデッセイ
Midori no hoshi no odessei
Tokyo: Hayakawa
ハヤカワ文庫・SF 5
no ISBN
paperback (16×11cm)
07/1989
279
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Toru Yano
Shun Kijima
With an afterword by Ito Norio. Illustrated by Keizo Iwabuchi.

Shun Kijima
NETHERLANDS
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Dutch: Zwerfeilanden in het groen
Laren: Luitingh
SF Tijgerpocket 130
no ISBN
paperback (18×11,5cm)
not dated [= -/1968]
181
ƒ 2,95
Carl Lans
not credited [= Jack Gaughan]
This printing has the author's name in red and the title in blue on the spine. It also has the old Luitingh logo, consisting of the letters UAJL, on the titlepage. The cover was plasticized that in most cases let go.

Jack Gaughan
Title
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Date
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Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Dutch: Zwerfeilanden in het groen
Laren: Luitingh
SF Tijgerpocket 130
no ISBN
paperback (18×11,5cm)
not dated [= -/1970] (2nd)
181
ƒ 2,95
Carl Lans
not credited [= Jack Gaughan]
The second printing has the author's name in blue and the title in red on the spine, also changed from the first printing, and uses smaller letters. It has the new Luitingh logo, a picture of a building, on the title page.
No indication in the book about a second printing.

Jack Gaughan
POLAND
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
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Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Polish: Odyseja Greena
Olsztyn: Stalker Books
Klasycy amerykańskiej SF
ISBN 978-83-66280-60-1
paperback (19,5×12,5cm)
08/2020
189
Zł 32,99
Tadeusz Markowski
Tadeusz Meszko
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Tadeusz Meszko
PORTUGAL
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art


Notes
Portuguese: A odisseia verde
Mem Martins: Publicações Europa-América
Ficção Científica 223
ISBN 972-1-04199-8
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
-/1996
133
not priced
Luís Cadete
credited to "Studio P.E.A." [Actually: based on art by Peter Elson, the background, and Chris Moore, the spaceship.]
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Elson & Moore
RUSSIA
Title
Latin
Omnibus
Latin
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Russian: Одиссея Грина
Odisseya Grina
in Одиссея Грина
in Odisseya Grina
Nizhny Novgorod: Parallel
Мир фантастики
ISBN 5-86067-008-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20×13cm)
04/1994
542
not priced
A. Tachkov
Peter A. Jones [front and back cover]
Pictorial boards. Illustrated by M. Raev. Omnibus, together with Inside Outside and Flesh, and two stories: "Open to Me, My Sister" and "Riders of the Purple Wage".

Peter A. Jones
Title
Latin
Omnibus
Latin
Publishers

Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover photo
Notes
Russian: Одиссея Грина
Odisseya Grina
in Ф.Фармер: Мир дней - 2
in F. Farmer: Mir dney - 2
Moscow & St. Petersburg: Troll
St. Petersburg: Yuventa
Меч и Посох. Коллекция фантастической эпопеи 15
ISBN 5-87365-019-5
hardcover (22×14,5cm)
-/1995
624
not priced
A. Tachkov
uncredited
Omnibus, together with Dayworld Breakup, Night of Light and The Gate of Time. Joined publication of two publishers (Troll and Yuventa).

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Title
Latin
Omnibus
Latin
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Russian: Одиссея Грина
Odisseya Grina
in Миры Филипа Фармера - T. 18
in Miry Filipa Farmera - T. 18
Moscow: Polaris
-
ISBN 5-88132-311-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
07/1997
383
not priced
O. Stepashkin
Hajime Sorayama
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with The Long Warpath and The Wind Whales of Ishmael.

Hajime Sorayama
SPAIN
Title
Publisher
Series+no.
Bookno.
Format
Date
Pages
Price
Translation
Cover art
Notes
Spanish: La odisea de Green
Madrid: La biblioteca del laberinto
Delirio Ciencia Ficción 130
ISBN 978-84-120655-8-9
trade paperback (22×15,5cm)
10/2019
205
not priced [= € 17.00]
Francisco Arellano
uncredited [= unknown]
With an introduction by David Pringle and John Clute, that is illustrated with two photos of Phil and fifteen of his book covers. On the title page the color cover illustation by Richard Powers for Ballantine (1957), and on page 17 the cover illustration by Allison for the Italian edition, Libra (1977).

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