Victor Gollancz - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art none, typographical upon a "gollancz yellow" field
cover (d-j) price £4.95

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black and magenta on "gollancz yellow" field with two narrow bands of decoration composed of printers' wibbles between narrow horizontal lines all in black
cover (d-j) price 13/6
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first uk edition

collection of sixteen short stories (seven reprints) and a novelette, nf introduction by the author

cover (d-j) art none, typographical with some limited horizontal separators from compositors' type
cover (d-j) price 10/6
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by annaloog:

Thanks, David, for the clarification.

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Comment by David Whiteley ●:

Added title page showing full title "The City Watch Trilogy".

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Comment by annaloog:

Is the definite article included in the title on the title page? I don't see it on the dust jacket.

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

dead man's lane (original to this collection)
the end of silence (''a quiver of ghosts'' ed. aidan chambers (1987))
my disability (original to this collection)
toomie (original to this collection)
the king of nowhere (- ? -; in ''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989))
they have found out (original to this collection)
a rhyme for silver (''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989))
little nym (''the walker book of ghost stories'' ed. susan hill (1990))
the traitor (''the virago book of twentieth century ghost stories: volume two'' ed. richard dalby (1991))
die from day to day (original to this collection)
fastness of light (original to this collection)

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by terry oakes framing a photo of frederik pohl
cover (d-j) price £6.95
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 16 (check) unnumbered pp. photographic section, etc, end pp. index, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition and first thus°

reprint collection of twelve short stories and two novelettes (° adds ss "the handler" to the contents of the doubleday h/cvr)

cover (d-j) art: none; classic "gollancz yellow" typographical with spot magenta and black, with zigzags
cover (d-j) price 18/-
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p.

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Comment by ppint.:

author field should^W has been varied to editor

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Comment by ppint.:

first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985

this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz yp/b first printing, simultaneous first uk edition
card covers bind-up of the same print-run signatures as the victor gollancz h/cvr first printing

cover art none, typographical cover
cover price £4.95
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between card covers

1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions

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Comment by ppint.:

author field should^W has been varied to editor

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Comment by ppint.:

first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985

this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, simultaneous first uk edition
collected signatures of the same printing also bound in card covers as the victor gollancz yp/b edition

cover (d-j) art none; typographical cover
cover (d-j) price £9.95
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art by alan breese
cover (d-j) price 15/-(?) (this mayn't be the original price°)
276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

° - victor gollancz ran what was in effect a separate junior library-aimed sf line of titles often merkin-published as category sf, or as general fiction line, as adult fiction; but they also picked up uk & british commonwealth (usually excluding canada) volume rights to titles published as children's books for this.

exceptionally for victor gollancz science fiction h/cvrs throughout this period, the books they published for this bore illustrated restricted-palette dust-jackets, usually single-colour (and black) on white paper.

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Comment by ppint.:

near-identical second printing (° or else remaining stock re-priced by victor gollancz sticky label, at)

cover price £3.50

° - but i don't have a copy of this to hand, and cannot confirm which, or else the second printing's date

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz ltd. b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
gollancz classic sf series (first series) #11

cover art by colin hay (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.95
180pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black and red on gollancz yellow field
cover (d-j) price £3.95
180pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

reprint anthology of six short stories, three novelettes and a novella, with nf introduction by shelly lowenkampf, nf postscript by the editor

cover (d-j) art none; typographical in magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price 32/-
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art none, black and magenta typography on classic ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price 16/-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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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.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art none, two spot colours typographical titles on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price £9.95
302pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

the lordly ones (novelette) f&sf vol.58 #3, 3/1980 (comfort station)
ariadne potts (ntte) f&sf vol.54 #4, 4/1978
sphairistike (ntte) f&sf vol.66 #2, 2/1984
the checkout (short story) f&sf vol.60 #2, 2/1981 (an anita story)
the comfort station (ss) f&sf vol.58 #5, 5/1980
the castle on the hoop (ss) 1986
diva (ntte) 1986

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first edition

mostly reprint collection of four novelettes and three short stories (one of each original to the collection)

cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price £8.95
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

month of publication not given, taken from locus

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

introduction (nf) keith roberts
our lady of desperation (original to this collection)
the shack at great cross halt, in ''new writings in sf 30'' ed. ken bulmer (1977 or 1978), q.v.
the ministry of children, in ''new worlds 9'' ed. hilary bailey (1975), q.v.
the big fans f&sf vol.52 #5, 5/1977 (an alex boulter story)
missa privata, in ''new worlds 10'' ed. hilary bailey (1976), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first edition

mostly reprint collection of five novelettes (one original to this collection), introduction by the author

cover (d-j) art none, typographical black and magenta of field of ''gollancz yellow''
cover (d-j) price £5.95
200pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents introduction, etc. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards