The Science Fiction Book Club / Readers Union - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

dent/david & charles readers union science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition

cover d-j art (unsigned, uncredited yellow & black composition including partial view of a human eye)
cover d-j price (none, though the £1.60 price of the 1972 sidgwick & jackson uk h/cvr is noted)
188 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, perfect bound (check) with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

j. m. dent & sons readers union group science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the sf book club initially, on a near-inertia sales opt-out basis, then available to members of other readers union book clubs, always by mail-order

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited monochrome random black saw-tooth lengths on white (i e. unprinted) ground
cover (d-j) price
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
"SFBC" is printed at base of d-j spine

renumbered cat# 5009 in the great renumbering™ by david & charles after they bought the readers union group of book clubs from j. m. dent - but as neither cat# was printed on book nor d-j, yr hmbl srppnt. s'spects this is of largely theoretical interest

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Comment by ppint.:

renumbered cat# 5056 in david & charles' great renumbering™ when they bought the readers union group of book clubs from dent in 12/1972, and assigned new cat#s to the sfbc books in stock - in alphabetical order of their titles (!), during 12/1972 - 1/1973 -

- but this is liable to prove to be of largely academic interest, since david & charles manglementpersons appear to've forborne to instruct any working employee to print, write, stamp or scrawl the new cat#s on the existing stock. . .

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Comment by ppint.:

j. m. dent & sons readers union group the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the science fiction book club by post, on an opt-out, semi-inertia sales subscription basis, later on also to members of the other readers union book clubs as an option, and from time-to-time as a cheap/"free" inducement to join the book club

cover (d-j) art by terry james
cover (d-j) price (?c. 10/- including postage & packing)
148pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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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.:

readers union group science fiction book club edition first printing, not first h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the book club on an opt out subscription basis, and subsequently as an option to members of the readers union group of book clubs

cover (d-j) art by chris foss (a yellow and blue reduction of the main image from the first edition d-j art)
cover (d-j) price
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, perfectbound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

the readers union group first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the science fiction book club and to other readers union group clubs

cover (d-j) art copying or a direct re-use of david (a.) hardy's cover art for the sidgwick & jackson d-j
cover (d-j) price (none printed)
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound (perfectbound?) with endpapers between covered boards