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Latest Updates - Vincent King
5th Feb 2024 Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: readers union group the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited yellow on black possibly based on microscopic slide of plant cells?)
cover (d-j) price
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, perfectbound with endpapers between covered boards
copies were evidently still in stock december 1972 as it was notionally renumbered cat# 5008
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Candy Man - The Science Fiction Book Club / Readers Union - UK (1972) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: chosen by-line for his sf of art teacher, writer and artist rex thomas vinson, ''king'' being the translation of the latin word ''rex''; 22/10/1935 - (?)/5/2000
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4th Feb 2024 Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: futura publications p/b first printing, first edition
a futura book, orbit science fiction series
cover art by peter andrew (paj) jones (signed paj75, uncredited)
cover price 60p, $2.50 canada
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Time Snake And Superclown - Orbit / Futura - UK (1976) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: tbl (thomson books ltd.) group sphere books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by patrick woodroffe (signed, signature partly visible, uncredited)
cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.10 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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Comment by ppint.: victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art none; typographical in magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price £1.80
192pp. including titles, indicia, end p., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Candy Man - Victor Gollancz - UK (1971) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 95¢
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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 first printing: june, 1971
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Candy Man - Ballantine Books - USA (1971) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 95¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check title page, indicia for statement (that) ballantine books (is) an intext publisher
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Another End - Ballantine Books - USA (1971) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: universal-tandem tandem books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by chris achilleos (unsigned, uncredited, was on the artist's website)
cover price 25p (no? overseas territories prices?)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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Comment by ppint.: rapp & whiting first printing, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by lawrence edwards (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £1.40/28s.
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Light A Last Candle - Tandem - UK (1971) | New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Light A Last Candle - Rapp & Whiting - UK (1970) | Comment [+] added to book by ppint.
Comment by ppint.: ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check title page, indicia for statement (that) ballantine books (is) an intext publisher
| New Book added by ppint. Vincent King - Light A Last Candle - Ballantine Books - USA (1969) |
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