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Comment by David Whiteley:
The review in New Worlds SF was by James Cawthorn.
Comment by ppint.:
it'd be worth noting by whom the review published in
new worlds was written:
the magazine was by then a flag-waver for "the new wave" and for "speculative fiction", and rather prone to get very sniffy about perfectly good "traditional" sf that did not adhere to their - somewhat ironically - rather narrow definitions of what "speculative fiction" was, or
ought to be - or, was simply written by the "
wrong (/wrong kind of) writers".
Comment by ppint.:
dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition (as scheduled: possibly preceded by corgi books p/b)
original anthology of two short stories, three novelelettes and a novella, introduction by john carnell
cover (d-j) art none: typographical in black on dennis dobson's long-time uniform two-colour "new writings in sf" design by eric ayers (credited on d-j front flap)
cover price 21/-
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
Comment by ppint.:
6/1969 was presumably the month in which dennis dobson first advertised this original anthology would be published° - but the copyright date of 1970 does seem pretty conclusive, doesn't it - ?
° - traditionally, publishers advertised their new titles lists seasonally; this may've started off as a direct consequence of the link between the ecclesiastical and law terms, and a considerable proportion of early book publishing's catering to these two of the three oldest professions.
by nineteen-sixties & seventies, this had long since settled down into a spring and an autumn list, with titles having their scheduled month of publication noted, where this had been decided upon (plus a dedicated christmas list from those publishers as indulged themselves in such).
so titles might commonly be announced up to six months before their provisionally scheduled publication date - and then other factors might intrude, including matters from the real world™. . .