General Paperbacks - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

from 1958 through c. 1965-8, the new american library signet books mmpb was distributed in canada, mostly with canadian-printed carcases sharing merkin-printed covers of the near-identical more-or-less simultaneous merkin mmpb main printings. i do not know if the 1968 bantam mmpb edition, which saw at least four printings, or the 1974 ballantine books mmpb, which saw at least thirty-seven printings, saw distribution north of the parallel.

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Comment by ppint.:

general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik
cover price $5.95
276pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, ended pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik of a ditched bristol beaufort, crew being rescued by the crew of a small yacht (? - one mast, two sails, triangular forward sail, main sail on a boom and gaff(?) extending the mast diagonally upward; tiller manned, no rudder visible at raked stern)
cover price $4.95
224pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Usually when I come across books marked "General" it is by way of a sticker as General was only the distributor to Canada, not the printer (i.e., remove the sticker and the book has no difference to any sold in the UK; in fact I will be indexing one shortly. This is the first time I have actually encountered a book that has had General act as publisher, to the point of replacing the original UK with their own imprint and ISBN.