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Author:	Edmond Hamilton
Title:	Battle For The Stars
Publisher:	Mayflower
Country:	UK
Date:	1963
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	0480
Total Editions:	5
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ppint. 5th Jun 2019		mayflower books first printing, first p/b edition dedication: to e. hoffmann price cover art by pino dell'orco (signed, uncredited) cover designed (layout, style) / sam suliman studio (credited on back cover) cover price 3'6 192 blue edge-stained pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising published by mayflower books ltd,. as a mayflower book (stated on title page and in indicia), using the mayflower [ship] dell variant of their logo on the front cover



ppint. 7th Dec 2017		published in merkin h/cvr 11/1961, so first book publication year date should be 1961.



ppint. 16th Feb 2025		armchair fiction tp/b first printing, not first p/b edition, first edition thus half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up) cover art by malcolm smith (re-used from imagination vol.7 #3, (7/1956), q.v.) cover price $12.95 ½ 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. doubled with "border, breed nor birth" mack reynolds (1972), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Jan 2020		half "tor double" #8 cover art by bryn barnard (signed, also credited) isbn (u.s.) 0-812-55960-6° isbn (canada) 0-812-55961-4° cover price (canada $ 3.95(?)) u.s. $2.95 so this edition should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule 248pp? including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. ° - for some years, tor mmpb editions carried separate canadadian and merkin isbns (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Jan 2020		paperback library mmpb second printing(s)° (° - may exist in two near-identical printings°) cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. end p. advertising ° refer to indicia and check printing history: not so far seen/seen reported with canadadian-printed book carcass, so it'd be appreciated if any bookcatter finding they hold such a copy to post the words of the printing history line stating this "here". (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Jan 2020		paperback library near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by jack gaughan (unsigned, uncredited; attribution published in "outermost: the art & life of jack gaughan" luis ortiz (2010), q.v.) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first printing: august 1964 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 20th Apr 2018		the number in the isbn13 field is^W was incorrect, and should^W has been deleted. it was not an isbn13. this book does not bear an isbn13. if it were an isbn13, the final, checksum digit, would not be "6". (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 7th Dec 2017		first book publication 11/1961 in merkin h/cvr. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 7th Dec 2017		doubled with "the nemesis from terra" by leigh bracket, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 7th Dec 2017		second paperback library mmpb printing/edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 7th Dec 2017		first mmpb edition/printings, not first p/b edition, not first merkin edition (preceded by merkin h/cvr first edition) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Edmond Hamilton - Battle For The Stars - Paperback Library - Paperback - USA (1964)

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Edmond Hamilton - Battle For The Stars - Paperback Library - Paperback - USA (1967)

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Edmond Hamilton - Battle For The Stars - Tor - Paperback - USA - 0812559606 (1989)

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Edmond Hamilton - Battle For The Stars - Armchair Fiction - Paperback - USA - 1612873529 (2017)