Latest Updates - Vincent King

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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