Latest Updates - Clifford D. Simak

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Comment by ppint.:

octopus publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing,
octopus having engulfed abp, essentially the second printing of the abp/methuen london 1988 edition, with new

cover art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price £3.99
276pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.

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Comment by ppint.:

abp/methuen london first complete uk edition°, first printing thus

cover art by nick rodgers (unsigned, credited on back cover as nick rogers)
cover price £3.50
276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.

° - includes "epilog" (short story) in "the john w. campbell memorial anthology" eds. harry harrison, brian aldiss (1973) plus clifford simak's musing notes concerning the wisdom - or otherwise - of returning to a greatly loved series after so long a time.

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Comment by ppint.:

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

cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.

chris moore's covers art is not a copy of frank kelly freas' art for the daw mmpb, but would seem to owe at least a little to it, for the appealig/appalling figure. . .

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books simultaneous near-identical first printings, not first mmpb edition

cover art by frank kelly freas (signed, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.514
cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing number line 123456789
cover price $2.95° canadian-carcased variant intended for distribution north of the parallel,; though published simultaneously, the indicia printing number line first printing, november 1980/23456789 identifies them as the second printing

° - the second letter of the cat# is not varied to reflect the different cover price

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Comment by ppint.:

may be the berkley medallion mmpb fourth printing, as an earlier printing is also stated to be the third.

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Comment by ppint.:

dent/david & charles readers union science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition

cover d-j art (unsigned, uncredited yellow & black composition including partial view of a human eye)
cover d-j price (none, though the £1.60 price of the 1972 sidgwick & jackson uk h/cvr is noted)
188 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, perfect bound (check) with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

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

cover art by herbert norton rogoff (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
192 pp. including 4 unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc.


refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing° which differs:
adds line stating third printing°

° - this statement may have been erroneous, whether through the expected or actual appearance of a near-identical second printing, or the presumption of the existence of a canadian-carcased variant first printing, later accounted the second - or simple publishing office/printer's mistake;
the berkley medallion 11/1975 mmpb cat# Z2997, q.v., bearing new cover art by richard powers is also stated to be the third berkley medallion mmpb in its indicia

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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.