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Author:	Erich Von Däniken
Title:	Chariots Of The Gods?
Subtitle:	Unsolved Mysteries Of The Past
Publisher:	Corgi Books
Country:	UK
Date:	1971
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	001.9
Genre:	Fiction, Cult
Translator:	Michael Heron
ISBN-10:	0552088005
Total Editions:	4
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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'A' format 190pp including index, plus ads. 20pp b&w photo section. Reprinted 1971 (twice), 1972 (four times), 1973 (three times), 1974, 1975 (three times), 1976 (three times). Translation copyright © 1969 by Michael Heron.

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23skidoo 15th Jul 2023		Asked mods to remove "transport" from the genre list. LOL. [Mod:JPGR&B: Actioned.]



OldMod67 14th Oct 2019		Hi ppint, yeah I know, but thanks....The 'was god an astronaut?' has also been included in book listings as part of the title too..... which is why I stuck with the title page for the main entry. I don't tend to go into too much detail, only tagging the blurb in as a comment rather than notes. Thanks for the extra notes though.



ppint. 13th Oct 2019		hi, oldmod67: there's actually a well-accepted difference between what constitutes a subtitle in bibliography, and what is a piece of advertising copy that is put on (typically) a paperback's cover but *isn't* part of the title - called (inter alia) a strap-line. a strap-line is a (more - or less) snappy sentence or phrase that someone in the publishers thinks will grab the attention of almost anyone seeing "the product" (- more generally, "the package" -) and, together with the cover art, the author's name (- if they're a big name author), and perhaps an arresting title, inspire the casual browser to pick up the book. this can, and often does vary, not just from one publisher's edition of the book to another's, but even between different editions - and even different printings of the same edition - from a single publisher. a subtitle is an alternate title or an elaboration of the main title composed, or else agreed to, by the author that is given in addition to the main or the shorter form of the title, upon all editions of that book°; e.g. professor j. r. r. tolkien's title for "the hobbit: or, there and back again" includes the sub-title, "there and back again" - in the fictional world of middle-earth, this was the title that the hobbit in question, bilbo baggins, gave to the book of his handwritten memoirs of his great adventure. ° - publishers' errors and deliberate "mistakes" aside a strap-line placed upon the front cover of the same novel, whether above or below the title, and whether upon just the one, or on many printings and editions of it, e.g. "how a happy hobbit gets dragged out of his hole, plays a game of riddles that could cost him his life, and has to outguess a dragon!" would be a (rather over-lengthy) strap-line, and not its sub-title. - a strap-line is, if you like, a book blurb distilled down to a single snappy sentence or phrase.



OldMod67 13th Oct 2019		Subtitle on cover reads 'Was God An Astronaut?' First published in Germany by Econ-Verlag under the title Erinnerungen an die Zukunft. Originally published in Great Britain by Souvenir Press Ltd.



ppint. 18th Nov 2020		from what i've been able to follow on erich von däniken on wikipedia-de and elsewhere, the 1968 first edition of this book was published by econ-verlag, econ publishers, as stated by oldmod67 a year ago. this means that this knaur edition is not the 1968 first edition, and the publication date of 1968 is incorrect, and should^W has been deleted. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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