Latest Updates - Brian W. Aldiss

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Comment by ppint.:

doubleday science fiction book club first printing, first h/cvr edition
initially for sale to the science fiction book club members only; later also for sale to members of the other doubleday book clubs as an option
not for sale to the general public nor for distribution via the wholesale or retail book or news trades

reprint collection of one novella and three novelettes

cover (d-j) art by don ivan punchatz (signed with his dotted monogram, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price (none, iirc)
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

printer's gutter code 23L on p.187 = 6/70; at least one later printing(s) bears a different gutter code(s)

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Comment by ppint.:

jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition or first uk edition°

cover d-j art by alan tunbridge
cover d-j price £2.25
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

° - textual differences between this and the doubleday h/cvr indicate this may have been brian's original text, and jonathan cape ltd. the originating publishers; they were his originating publishers in the nineteen seventies through the mid nineteen-eighties