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Author:A. Bertram Chandler
Title:Contraband From Otherspace
Publisher:  Ace Books
Country:USA
Date:Jan 1967
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:G-609
Total Editions:3
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cover art by (frank) kelly freas
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan

a john grimes novel in the rim worlds setting

doubled with "reality forbidden" by philip e. high, q.v.

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ppint.
7th Jul 2018
 #18 in the john grimes series, set in & around the rim worlds:

a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for the rim worlds series' listings, and links
 

 
ppint.
7th Jul 2020
 grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books undated mmpb unspecified printing
half an ''ace double'' (so stated on cover ) with a single front cover
i.e not a classic "ace double" with two front covers, texts, printed upside-down with respect to one another

undated, unspecified second ace books printing of this pairing
both date and ordinality taken from locus 249, 10/1981

cover art by rowena morrill (signed "rowena") retained from first printing of this pairing
cover price $2.75
½ 312pp.? (check not 320pp.) including 2 x titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


doubled with "into the alternate universe" (1964), q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
7th Jul 2020
 grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing thus, not first edition
half an ''ace double'' (declared on front cover) with a single front cover
i.e not a classic "ace double" with two front covers, texts, printed upside-down with respect to one another

° - first ace books mmpb printing of this pairing

cover art by rowena morrill (signed "rowena")
cover price $2.25
½ 312pp. (? check not 320pp.) including 2 x titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

indicia publishing history states this ace printing march 1979 below 1967 copyright notice in name of ace books, inc.

but n.b. the novel that is the other half of this ''ace double'' has its own indicia page


doubled with "into the alternate universe" (1964), q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
6th Jul 2020
 title should^W has been emended to "contraband from otherspace" (three words, not four)

as per cover and as per first printing in 1967
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
6th Jul 2020
 title should^W has been emended to "contraband from otherspace" (three words, not four)

as per cover and as per first printing in 1967.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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A. Bertram Chandler - Contraband From Otherspace - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441371086 (1979)
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A. Bertram Chandler - Contraband From Otherspace - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441371094 (1981)

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