penguin books b-format p/b edition first printing, not first penguin p/b edition
cover art by tom stimpson (unsigned, credited on back cover, re-used from previous a-format printing)
cover price £3.95, $12.95 australia, $14.99 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
penguin books p/b third printing, retaining isbn from previous printing, with new
cover art by tom stimpson (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
dell publishing dell mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by bob fowke (unsigned, uncredited; attribution by/confirmed by his wife, is on his website)
cover price $2.25
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
may also exist in a canadian-carcassed variant; refer to indicia publishing history to check if you are holding such a copy. please post here on bookcat if you do, giving the firm of words used to state this.
penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 25p 5/-, R0.60 south africa, 85c australia, 75c new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
penguin books p/b second printing, with new isbn incorporating the previous cat#, new
cover art by peter tybus (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 50p, $1.70 new zealand (?any more territories)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
phoenix house the science fiction book club first printing, first uk edition, first uk h/cvr
for sale only to club members, by mail-order, initially on the opt-out subscription basis
cover (d-j) art by c. w. bacon (signed cwb, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price (none printed; 6/- including postage in the uk-of-gb-&-ni)
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
the walter reade organization pyramid books imprint mmpb simultaneous fourth printings sharing merkin-printed covers, with new cat#, new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 60¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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 fourth printing, june 1970
random house group ballantine books mmpb revised edition third printing, seventh printing over-all
cover art by don brautigam, retained from previous printing, miscredited again to don brautigan
cover price $1.95
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia (ha!) etc, end pp. including nf historical note, advertising
the indicia publishing history is still a mess, but slightly less so than the previous printing:
a space is added after the puzzling special printing;
and the unlikely strange sixth printing: september 1976, apparently of the unrevised edition, is deleted;
unfortunately, an equally unlikely, implicitly unrevised:
seventh printing: november 1979
presumédly referring to this third printing of the revised edition, takes its place.
random house group ballantine books revised edition mmpb second printing, over-all sixth mmpb printing?°
cover art by don brautigam (unsigned, credited detail from inside cover art of first revised printing)
cover price $1.50
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - the indicia publishing history is a mess, and requires deciphering:
first revised edition:
first printing: april 1976
sixth printing: august 1977
first special printing august 1976
first edition: june 1956
fifth printing: february 1974
sixth printing: september 1977
i do not believe that there were four (unlisted) printings of the revised edition between the first, in april 1976, and the sixth printing listed immediately after it, for august 1977;
nor that the unrevised edition received a further ballantine mmpb printing after the revised edition mmpb was published by ballantine books - so the sixth printing: september 1977 seems to be a phantom;
and i've no idea what the hitherto unmentioned ''first special printing'' listed for august 1976 was;
on top of which, the listed february 1974 printing does not appear to exist in the real world...
so i'd fairly confidently state that the two listed 1977 printings for august & september are both of the second mmpb printing of the revised edition - they're both p/bs of the same extent, and both are longer than the 160pp. of the unrevised edition's setting;
that the first revised printing was probably the fifth ballantine mmpb printing over-all;
and the listed february 1974 fifth printing of the unrevised edition probably does not exist;
- but i've still no idea what the 8/1976 special printing actually was, and why it wasn't an mmpb printing.
random house group ballantine books mmpb revised edition, first printing (fifth printing over-all)
cover art by don brautigam (including inside doubke-page art) (unsigned, miscredited as don brautigan)
cover price $1.50
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. historical note (nf) lester del rey, advertising
a detail from the inside double-page art is used just above the title on the cover of the next printing
random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous fifth° printings, with new cat#, new isbn, new
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.25
160pp. (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 fifth printing, february 1974°
° - this seems to be an error, and this to be the fourth printing; in this printing's indicia,
the fourth printing listed as 0-345-22069-2, 3/1971, does not appear to exist in the real world...
- if upon checking, you should find such a beast, please list it here in as much detail as possible!
ballantine books mmpb second printing, with new cat#, new
cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the art of richard powers'' richard powers, jane frank (2001), q.v.)
cover price 59¢
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
published as by frederik pohl and lester del rey
writing as edson mccann
the first edition - so far as is known to yr hmbl srppnt. - to publish the secret of the pseudonym;
though according to frederik pohl, it was an open secret within the sfnal world pretty well from the beginning.
random house group ballantine books simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition
adds two nf afterwords by the authors:
''the art and agony of collaboration'' frederik pohl
''risk, but not preferred'' lester del rey
cover art by chris barbieri (signed barbieri, credited)
cover price $2.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterwords, 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 ballantine books edition: january 1980
simon & schuster h/cvr first printing, first edition
winner of the galaxy - simon and schuster contest
for 1955's best work of science-fiction
- d-j puff-line
cover (d-j) art unsigned, design by dick dodge (credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price $2.75
252pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
the collaborative novel h. l. gold, the founding editor of galaxy, persuaded frederik pohl to enter pseudonymously in the simon & schuster-galaxy competition for first novels, none of the received entries being worthy winners in gold's professional judgment - or, possibly, even publishable.°
the novel was duly serialised in galaxy vol.10 #3, #4, #5, #6; 6, 7, 8, 9/1955; bre #30, #31, #32, #33;
part one was the cover story, art by fred kirberger, all four parts had four b+w illustrations by sanford kossin in the merkin originals, but respectively four, three, two, and four, in the bre (british reprint editions).
° - accounts differ slightly; see ''the way the future was'' frederik pohl (1978), q.v., and the accounts by pohl and by lester del rey in this and the preceding 1980 ballantine/del rey mmpb of ''preferred risk''.
first published in book format by simon & schuster, fall (autumn) 1955
thomas bouregy & co. airmont books first printing, small format tp/b, not first merkin p/b edition
airmont classics series
with nf introduction by robert a. w. lowndes
cover art
cover price 50¢
192pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction etc.
should bear a printer's date (''code'' according to some) in gutter of ~last page of the novel's text
may exist in near-identical reprintings with later printing dates in the gutter code, perhaps higher cover prices, in common with most of the airmont books small format tp/bs.
about evenor and george macdonald: the dubious land (nf article) lin carter
editor's note (nf) lin carter
the wise woman (novella) aka ''the wise woman: or the lost princess'' aka ''a double story'' (1875)
editor's note (nf) lin carter
the carosoyn (novelette) (1871)
editor's note (nf) lin carter
the golden key (ntte) (1857)
world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned i think, uncredited
cover price 2'6
176 small, merkin pocketbook format pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
pál tábori was born 16/11/1908 in budapest, in the austro-hungarian empire, and died 9/11/1974. his parents were journalists, his father was murdered in 1944, but both he, his brother gyorgi (george) and their mother were able to escape germany and the holocaust earlier. between the world wars pál/paul tábori travelled widely, working as a screenwriter as well as a newspaper foreign correspondent.
he gained a phd in psychology and a professorship before concentrating upon his journalism, including broadcasting from london during the second world war, which he combined with his activism in the protection and freeing from prison of journalists and writers, and writing books on a range of nonfictional subjects, including enquiries into magic, mysticism and the occult - and also revealing and publicising fraudulent exploitation of beliefs in these areas; and an increasing interest in sexuality and eroticism is apparent in both his studies, and his published non-fiction and fiction.
he also found the time and the energy to work for alexander korda's london films from about 1943-1948, and in hollywood 1950-51; writing, including theatre and film screenplays, over thirty theatre productions and over a hundred of a wide variety of film screenplays.
weidenfeld & nicolson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art (not known: d-j missing)
cover d-j) price 9/6d
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
contents:
all first published in astounding science fiction, as by lewis padgett:
the proud robot (novelette) vol. xxxii #2, 10/1943, three b+w illustrations by frank kramer
gallegher plus (ntte) vol. xxxii #3, 11/1943; asf atlas bre 4/1944 three b+w illustrations by newton alfred
the world is mine (ntte) vol. xxxi #4, 6/1943, cover story, art by william timmins, four b+w illustrations by arthur williams
ex machina (ntte) vol. xxxxi #2, 4/1948, with four b+w illustrations by ed cartier
time locker (ntte) vol. xxx #5, 1/1943, with two b+w illustrations by m. isip