Added back cover and with acknowledgment to davie gordon, better scan of front cover.
Equator was first published as a serial in New Worlds magazine Vol 25 #75 September 1958 and Vol 26 #76 October 1958 and, as stated by ppint "Segregation" was in New Worlds Volume 25 #73 July 1958.
brown, watson ltd. digit books p/b first printing, first thus
reprint collection of a short novel and a novelette
cover art uncredited, by chesley bonestall (with added space station - it's not recorded whose this is), see www.bonestall.org)
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
new english library first and second p/b printings (reprinted before, or immediately upon, publication); not first p/b (was digit books 1962)
title on title page is ''equator and segregation''
reprint collection of two stories:
''equator'' (aka ''vanguard from alpha'') (short novel/novella)
''segregation'' (novelette)
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 30p, 75 pts spain, 35p gibraltar, 35p malta, 350 mils cyprus, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.80 trinidad (w.i.)
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
first nel printing june 1973
near-identical second printing adds the line, reprinted june 1973
third near-identical new english library p/b printing:
adds line to publishing history, this new edition january 1977
sbn 450-03041-5
cover price 50p, 55p rep of ireland, pts 130 spain, 55p gibraltar, 55c malta, 550 mils cyprus, $1.50 australia, $1.60 new zealand, $3.00 trinidad (w.i.), $1.85 canada
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
brown, watson ltd. digit books p/b undated° second printing with new
cover art uncredited, unsigned
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
° - the 1963 date is from donald h. tuck
the new cover art could indicate someone was less than entirely chuffed with the addition of the space station to chesley bonestall's art on the cover of digit books' first printing. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)