Ace Books - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by ed emshwiller (signed, uncredited)
cover price 40¢
½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves

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Comment by ppint.:

a somewhat belated "thank-you, jimess".

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Comment by ppint.:

thank-you jimess.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Cover added.

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Comment by ppint.:

gregg haljan #2:

#1: ''brigands of the moon'' (1931), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art unsigned, uncredited; attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library
cover price 35¢
½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves


doubled with ''the paradox men'' charles harness (1953 as ''flight into yesterday''), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

thank-you, jimess.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Cover added.

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Comment by starshinesquirrel:

Added a larger, clearer cover scan than the one I posted before and a spine variant from this edition's first printing (the Ace logo is an earlier version).

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by jeff jones (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves

number-string on spine, 020-08077 (-060) is likely the book's abn; the 020- publisher prefix and the checksum digit-less abn system item number are wholly incompatible with the sbn, later developed into the isbn book numbering system.

month of publication not given, taken from the second ace double printing's publishing history

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Comment by ppint.:

sequel is ''the spawn of the death machine'' (1968), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, probably first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned sfaics, credited), as is the
interior b+w illustration
cover price 60¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising in-between the double's halves

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed with his initials in a circle, uncredited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph, uncredited)
cover price 60¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising in-between the double's halves

the number-string on the spine, 020-08027-060, is not an sbn nor an isbn of any kind.
sfaik it is an abn - an american book number - which was a system incompatible with the sbn and its later further developments - and which lacked any checksum digit, with the cover price in cents in three digits appended


doubled with ''crisis on cheiron'' juanita coulson (1967), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition
half a classic ''ace double'' with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by rob howard (signed, uncredited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph, uncredited)
cover price 60¢
145pp;
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising in-between the double's halves

month of publication not given, presumédly taken from the indicia of the second mmpb printing of ''computer war'', ace 11650.

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Comment by ppint.:

collected in the omnibus, ''three early novels'' philip k. dick (2000 & ff.), q.v.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Added the covers.

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Comment by annaloog:

Additional images added.

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Comment by ppint.:

ace books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by gahan wilson
cover price 40¢
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.