Latest Updates - Clifford D. Simak

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Comment by ppint.:

mis-accounted the third printing:

even allowing for the corporate forgetting of ace books' 1963 first mmpb printing (F-239), resulting in their first ace books five-digit systematic cat# allocated being 81000, this should've progressively accounted 81001 the second (instead of the third) printing, 81002 the third (instead of the fourth), and this 81003 the fourth, instead of the fifth ace books printing it actually was...

so, even with the best of intentions on the parts of grosset & dunlap's tom doherty and jim baen, and then by the berkley publishing group's management, understanding of the system's rules was fading, and the system was breaking down.

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Comment by ppint.:

the berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by paul lehr (unsigned, uncredited, shared from the putnam h/cvr first edition d-j where signed)
cover price $1.25
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

the berkley medallion mmpb was reprinted, but i don't know how many times, nor when, as i'd no reason to import copies for single step co-operative (- having seen the uk p/b edition into print).

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley putnam h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by paul lehr (signed lehr, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price $6.95
192pp.(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

sbn on d-j front flap: 399-11729-6
publication month date taken from d-j front flap: 7605


distinguish from near-identical merkin science fiction book club edition which differs:

sfbc cat# on d-j back flap
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc., end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
printer's gutter code G14 dates the printing to april 1976; the sfbc's publication date a month later

priority goes to the originating publisher's trade edition.

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Comment by ppint.:

the readers union group first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the science fiction book club and to other readers union group clubs

cover (d-j) art copying or a direct re-use of david (a.) hardy's cover art for the sidgwick & jackson d-j
cover (d-j) price (none printed)
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound (perfectbound?) with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by david (a.) hardy (signed hardy)
cover (d-j) price £3.50 by publisher's price gun label on d-j front flap
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

hamlyn publishing group/octopus group methuen london p/b first printing, second abp/methuen p/b printing over-all, with new isbn, new

cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50 (no overseas territories prices?)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month of publication not given, taken from locus

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Comment by ppint.:

abp group / eyre methuen magum books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 75p, $2.35 australia, $2.35 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition

cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, attributed)
cover price $2.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
208pp. (check°) including titles, indicia etc, (° may not include:) end pp. advertising

refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
canadian-carcassed variant drops the first digit, ''1'', from the printing number line, formally identifying these as the simultaneous second printing

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint simultaneous first mmpb printings, first p/b edition

cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik)
cover price 75¢
sbn 425-02103-3 in indicia is arithmetically identical to the simply derivable isbn10
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state berkley medallion edition, january, 1972

refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from undated near-identical mmpb second printing, which is stated

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Comment by ppint.:

''serialized'' as ''reality doll'' in worlds of fantasy vol.1 #4, spring (3)/1971
with one b+w illustration by jack gaughan

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Comment by ppint.:

unbound signatures of this edition of ''destiny doll'' collected together with those of ''the dreaming earth'' john brunner (1963), q.v. and those of ''nightwings'' robert silverberg (1969), q.v. and published in the omnibus h/cvr bind-up, ''science fiction special 10'' (1974), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by (unsigned, possibly credited on d-j flap?; some spot blue on b+w photographic of a doll on non-metallic ''silver'' ground)
cover (d-j) price £1.60 (re-check)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

hamlyn/octopus/reed international publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing

cover art by alex pang (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand incl. gst
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

publication date given as 7/1990 in locus; re-check this

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Comment by ppint.:

abp / methuen london first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris moore
cover price £1.95
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition

cover art by jan esteves (signed, uncredited)
cover price $1.95
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

pan macmillan pan books imprint p/b second printing, with new

cover art by gino d'achille (signed gda, uncredited; reproduced on the gda website)
cover price 60o, $1.75 australia, $1.85 new zealand, not for sale in canada
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

month of publication not given, taken from locus

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Comment by ppint.:

pan books first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price (25p) 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand, not for sale in canada
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

j. m. dent & sons readers union science fiction book club h/cvr first printing
for sale to club members by post on subscription and to other readers union group club members
not for sale to or via news wholesalers nor bookshops to the general public

cover (d-j) art by terry james
cover (d-j) price
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art none; typographical in black and magenta on ''gollancz yellow'' field, with black zigzags
cover (d-j) price 18/-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first edition

reprint collection of one novella, five novelettes and a short story

cover (d-j) art unsigned, possibly credited, geometric mathematical design on red & black vertical bars
cover (d-j) price 21/-
252pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

founding father (short story) galaxy vol. 14 #1, 5/1957; galaxy strato bre #52, 7/1957
immigrant (novella) astounding vol. 53 #1, 3/1954; astounding atlas bre vol. x #8, 8/1954;
both: five b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas
new folks' home (novelette) analog vol. lxxi #5, 7/1963, three b+w illustrations by john schoenherr
crying jag (ntte) galaxy vol. 18 #3, 2/1960; galaxy strato bre #78, 3/1960
all the traps of earth (ntte) f&sf vol.18 #3, 3/1960; f&sf atlas bre vol. 1 #7, 7/1960
lulu (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #2, 6/1957
neighbor (ntte) astounding vol. liii #4, 6/1954; astounding atlas bre vol. x #11, 11/1954