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Author:L. Sprague De Camp
Title:A Gun For Dinosaur And Other Imaginative Tales
Publisher:  Curtis Books
Country:USA
Date:1970
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:09018
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
15th Dec 2018
 modern literary editions publishing co. curtis books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

reprint collection of seven novelettes and seven short stories

cover art by johnny bruck (unsigned, uncredited; attributed from use on perry rhodan #171 in germany)
cover price 95¢
320pp, (check) including titles, indicia etc.
this curtis mmpb from 1969-70 undated, entered as 1970 (may eventually require emendation)

number-string (?abn publisher code? + cat# + cover price in cents): 123-09018-095
 

 
ppint.
14th Apr 2018
 publication date of this curtis p/b is^W was incorrect: it must have been 1969-1970, as that is when the first part of this p/b series of ~95 sf&f titles was published by the modern literary editions publishing co. (one title seemingly "leaking into" 1974 and one into 1975), with publisher code "123-".

after mlep'd picking up the merkin mmpb rights to a number of books from other publishers, it seems as though an agent, possibly acting for doubleday, arranged for modern literary editions publishing to acquire the rights/a licence to the rights to approximately one hundred mostly sf titles doubleday had not placed with any merkin publisher of mass-market paperbacks (and not all of which doubleday had got around to publishing in their hardcover line) and were perhaps approaching the ends of the licences to the english-language volume rights that doubleday held to these books - mostly, but not entirely, sf novels.

this rough century of titles was published under the curtis books imprint, mostly 1969-70, some first half 1971; odd further titles 1972-5; and then - apparently - modern literary editions lost any and all further interest in the science fiction publishing category.
 

 
ppint.
13th Sep 2024
 contents:

a gun for dinosaur (novelette) galaxy vol.11 #5, 3/1956, three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller; galaxy strato bre #38, 5/1956, 2 of the 3 illustrations
aristotle and the gun (ntte) astounding vol. lx #6, 2/1958, four b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas; astounding atlas bre vol. xiv #5, 5/1958, all 4 illustrations
the guided man (ntte) startling stories vol.27 #3, 10/1952, a b+w illustration by alex schomburg
internal combustion (short story) infinity vol.1 #2, 2/1956, a b+w illustration by robert engle
cornzan the mighty (ss) future science fiction #28, 12/1955 as "cornzan, the mighty", a b+w illustration by virgil finlay
throwback (ntte) astounding vol. xxxxiii #1, 3,/1949, three b+w illustrations by ed cartier; astounding atlas bre vol? #?, 1/1950
judgment day (ss) astounding vol. lvi #6, 8/1955, two b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas; astounding atlas bre vol. did i #1, 1/1956, both illustrations
gratitude (ntte) (?where?) ©1955
a thing of custom (ss) fantastic universe vol.7 #1, 1/1957
the egg (ss) satellite vol.1 #1, 10/1956
let's have fun (ss) science fiction quarterly vol.5 #1, 5/1957
impractical joke (ntte) future science fiction #29, 4/1956, a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
in-group (ss) marvel science fiction vol.3 #6, 5/1952
new arcadia (ntte) future science fiction #30, 8/1956, a b+w illustration by frank kelly freas
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
10th Mar 2021
 remploy h/cvr first printing, first uk edition; first h/cvr is the 1963 doubleday merkin h/cvr
remploy books' red star sci fi series

reprint collection of seven novelettes and seven short stories

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited (black typography on red & yellow art shared with all 1973-4 remploy sf & f titles)
title on d-j drops ''and other imaginative tales''
cover (d-j) price £2.20
336pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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L. Sprague De Camp - A Gun For Dinosaur And Other Imaginative Tales - Remploy - Hardcover - UK - 706605705 (1974)

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