Latest Updates - Isaac Asimov

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Comment by 23skidoo:

@ppint. You are correct (I misread your comment initially). I have submitted a correction!

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Comment by ppint.:

omnibus of six books, not five as incorrectly stated in notes section: the three books of the original foundation trilogy (long since expanded in both directions in time), composed of various novellas and novelettes as they were, the two novels, "the stars like dust", "the naked sun", and the thematic collection, "i, robot" (the uk variant).

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Comment by ppint.:

should^W have^W now has ''foundation and empire'' entered in the ''english title'' field

whereupon bookcat will^W automagically correctly sorts this retitling together with those editions published bearing the original title

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Comment by OldMod67:

Note: 1962 paperback (1973 Panther/Granada reprint) is priced:
UK 35p. Australia & New Zealand $1.20
Chris Foss illustration on cover.

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb simultaneous sixth printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by don ivan punchatz retained from avon mmpb third printing
cover price 75¢
192pp. (check) 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 sixth printing, march, 1969

refer to indicia publishing history also to distinguish from avon mmpb near-identical 9/1969 seventh printing, which adds note of seventh printing, september, 1969

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb undated thirtieth printing°

cover art by don ivan punchatz (retained from avon books mmpb third printing)
cover price $2.25
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

may only have been distributed in the heavy card slipcased set of the then trilogy

° - year date entered obtained by interpolation into cover prices of avon mmpbs of similar extent

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb third printing, with new

cover art by don ivan punchatz
cover price 60¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from presumed
avon books mmpb fourth printing presumédly near-identical if extant (not seen, nor report seen)

and also from near-identical avon mmpb fifth printing
which differs:
indicia publishing history adds line stating
fifth avon printing, march, 1968

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Comment by ppint.:

avon books mmpb simultaneous apparent second printing, with new

cover art (unsigned, uncredited) mainly shades of red, orange, yellow
cover price 50¢
cat# G1248
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, only copyright date © 1953 given

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Comment by ppint.:

brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition, first uk edition

cover art (unsigned, uncredited, re-used from ½ ace books D-113 mmpb (1955) ''one in 300'' j. t. mcintosh, q.v.; attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library)
cover price 2'-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.

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Comment by ppint.:

avon books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank, richard powers (2001), q.v.)
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc.

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, only the copyright date © 1953 is given

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Added covers.

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box may be visible, uncredited)
front cover bears sbn: 586 03772 1 horizontally in lower corner near spine
cover price 40p, $1.35 australia & new zealand, $1.50 canada
256pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month not given: entered to place this after the readers union science fiction book club h/cvr;
this month may need to be varied if a firm date is found in the publisher's catalogues et sim.

bears red flash diagonally across bottom fly corner stating his nebula award-winning new novel


refer inter alia to indicia publishing history to distinguish between this and various near-identical reprintings:

1974 second printing

1975 third printing which differs:
cover bears a red pinked-edge roundel stating winner of the hugo and nebula awards for the year's best sf novel
cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada

1976 fourth printing which differs from third:
cover price 60p, $1.95 australia, $1.95 new zealand, $1.95 canada

1978 fifth printing which differs from fourth:
cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box may be visible, now credited)
cover price 80p, $2.30 australia, $2.45 new zealand, $2.50 canada

1979 sixth printing

1981 seventh printing

1982 eighth printing which differs from fifth:
all red flashes/roundels now gone from front cover
cover price £1.50, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand

1985 ninth printing which differs from eighth:
sbn now gone from front cover
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand

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Comment by ppint.:

j. m. dent & sons readers union the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

cat# 1075 renumbered 5075 c.12/1972-1/1973 after david & charles' purchase of the readers union group of book clubs, including remaining stocks, from j. m. dent & sons.
greg pickersgill reports that both these cat# sequences were used for internal purposes, and upon/in leaflets/flyers advertising the clubs' monthly choices, specials etc.
iirc, they were also used in advertisements' and upon order forms.

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Comment by ppint.:

fawcett publications fawcett crest imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

cover art by charles moll (signed cm, but this guillotined off many copies, uncredited)
cover price $1.25
288pp. (check) 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 june 1973

and also to distinguish from near-identical undated unspecified reprintings which differ:

(? possible reprints with no visible external difference?) (these would be the earliest reprints)

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undated (except for 1973 first mmpb date) near-identical next known printings after the above, differ:
cat# Q2460
cover price $1.50
likely 1975 from interpolation of cat#s and cover price of fawcett crest mmpbs of similar extent

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cat# X2883
cover price $1.75
(first half of 1976 by interpolation of cat#s and comparison of cover prices of crest mmpbs of this extent)

(cat# (?price-code letter?)3756
(cover price $1.95
(?any printings bearing this cat# & cover price, but without nine digit sbn or ten digit isbn ?)
cat# first issued c. 11-12/1978; an isbn might've appeared printed only in the indicia initially

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undated 19th printing by indicia publishing history printing number line 27---19
cat# 3756
isbn 0-449-2-3756-7
cover price $1.95

undated 20th printing by indicia publishing history printing number line 27---20 elsewise identical
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1982 24th printing by number line also bears isbn 0-449-2-7536-7 incorporating cat#, $2.50 cover price

by november 1984 random house group had taken over fawcett publications from cbs, and the first ballantine books del rey series mmpb edition was an 11/1984 publication, cover art by barclay shaw, q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art: none, typographical in black and magenta, black escutcheon sf logo top left, on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price £(not visible on library copy)
288pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing ltd. panther books imprint p/b 1979, tenth panther p/b printing over-all

cover art by chris foss (unsigned, credited on back cover, retained from 1973 panther books printing on)
cover price c. 85p (check; also the overseas territories prices, c. 93½p rep(public) of ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.75 new zealand)
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

indicia publishing history claims published in 1958 by granada publishing limited which is a chronoclasm: it was published in 1958 by panther books ltd., lately renamed from hamilton & co. ltd. (formerly of stafford, now/then of brompton road, london)

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Comment by ppint.:

panther books p/b fourth printing, 1967, with new cover design°, new

cover art° unsigned, uncredited
cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, (6/6) 65c new zealand
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° semi-uniform design adopted across all panther.asimov p/bs of this vintage combining variable art visible as the body of a large lower-case roundhand script ''a'' upon a black (almost invariably) field

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing panther books imprint p/b seventh panther books printing over-all, 1973, with new

cover art by chris foss (unsigned°, credited on back cover; collected in ''21st century foss'' 1978, q.v.)
cover price 35p, R0.85c south africa, $3.50 singapore, $1.10 australia & new zealand, $1.25 canada
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - the full painting may well bear his f in a line-drawn box signature, but i've not spotted it on the cover


distinguish from near-identical 1975 eighth panther books p/b printing over-all which differs:

cover price 40p, $1.20 australia, $1.20 new zealand, $1.50 canada
indicia publishing history:
published in 1958 by panther books ltd.
reprinted 1962, 1964, 1967, 1971 (twice), 1973
adds line
reprinted 1975


1978 ninth printing over-all details not as-yet recorded by yr hmbl srppnt., nor seen reported elsewhere.


the 1979 tenth printing over-all removes the sbn from the front cover, and the back cover now bears the isbn incorporating it - and, therefore, also the original panther books three-digit cat# 824

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Comment by ppint.:

granada publishing group panther books imprint 1971 p/b near-identical fifth (and sixth) panther books printings over-all

cover art by dennis rolfe (re-used on ''neue sf: band 1'' ed. langdon jones (fischer taschenbuch 1973), credited)
sbn 586 00824 1 on front cover (compatible with developed isbn system through prefixing with ''0'') incorporates the cat# of the first three panther books p/b printings
cover price 30p (6/- ? other territories prices?)
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

yellowy-greenish cover art is centered upon a spherically-deformed treated photograph of isaac asimov's face


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between the near-identical 1971 fifth and sixth printings

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Comment by ppint.:

lancer books mmpb simultaneous third printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by frank kelly freas (signed with his symbol, retained from previous lancer mmpb, uncredited)
cover price 60¢
192pp. 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 simply state third lancer edition's year of publication

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Comment by ppint.:

lancer books second mmpb printing

cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed with his digraph, uncredited)
cover price 50¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.

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Comment by ppint.:

panther books 1964 p/b third panther books printing, with new

cover art unsigned, uncredited; photograph of boy with brief time exposure to moving light source
cover image 3'6
192 pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

lancer books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition

cover art by ed emshwiller (signed emsh, uncredited)
cover art framed by repeated puff-line, the lancer science fiction library on three sides and surmounted by cat#, gunsight(?) price / limited edition / now in new, durable library binding°
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.

° - cue sound of reader-collectors and general readers of lancer books' mmpbs rueful/scornful/frankly disbelieving laughter

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Comment by ppint.:

new american library signet books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by stanley meltzoff (unsigned (whole artwork prob'ly signed), uncredited; attributed in ''spectrum 14: the best in contemporary fantastic art'' arnie fenner, cathy fenner (2007), q.v.)
cover price 25¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Added back cover.