Group 100-10735
Wear & chipping to edges & corners, with indentations, scratches, rub-wear & soiling, plus the following - FRONT COVER: Ripple effect along spine edge, Xd by 1/4" stress crease lower spine edge, w/ 3/8" crease below; 1" ragged edge at left lower edge; 1/4" lift crease left lower edge; 7/16" lift crease right lower edge, w/ 1" rub-wear mark above; faint 5/16" crease mid-lower right edge; 1/4" corner crease right top corner; 9/16" lift crease left top edge; 15/16" indentation left lower midcover; 1-1/2" V-shape scratch left midcover. - SPINE: NO lean; NO top to bottom spine crease; 2 side-to-side creases. - BACK COVER: Ripple effect along spine edge; 2 faint top to bottom creases left top edge to left lower edge; 3/4" corner crease lower left corner; 1/2" lift crease right lower edge; 3/4" crease left lower midcover; 1/4" crease mid-left edge. - INTERIOR: Browning pages/inside covers; penciled checkmarks on titles list on page facing title page. - OVERALL CONDITION: Good
The original author of the SUNDANCE series was BEN HAAS, who wrote the books under the pseudonym of JOHN BENTEEN. When Haas died in 1977, the series was turned over to PETER McCURTIN, who was one of the staff editors at Leisure Books. McCurtin wrote several (but not all) of the remaining books in the SUNDANCE series; but those which he didn't write were assigned to other contract authors. Due to problems with the internal style of DEATH DANCE, several McCurtain scholars have determined that McCurtin himself did not write this particular book in the series, but had it assigned to an unknown contracted author.
The list of other SUNDANCE titles on the page facing the title page only extends to #26 NIGHTRIDERS, with the announcement that "DEATH DANCE is #27 in the SUNDANCE SERIES" -- so to me that would indicate that this edition is the first Leisure printing of DEATH DANCE.
The list of other SUNDANCE titles on the page facing the title page only extends to #26 NIGHTRIDERS, with the announcement that "DEATH DANCE is #27 in the SUNDANCE SERIES" -- so to me that would indicate that this edition is the first Leisure printing of DEATH DANCE.
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