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Editor:	Larry T. Shaw
Title:	Great Science Fiction Adventures
Publisher:	Lancer
Country:	USA
Date:	Oct 1963
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	72-697
Total Editions:	4
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ppint. 5th Oct 2023		lancer books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint anthology of three novellas and a novelette cover art by ed emshwiller (signed emsh, uncredited) cover price 59¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising



ppint. 11th Oct 2023		lancer books mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, uncredited, retained from 1963 first printing) cover price 75¢ 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state only a lancer book • 1968 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Oct 2023		apparently an accidental duplicate/chimera entry by the op, which should accordingly be deleted. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Oct 2023		contents: from three issues of science fiction adventures, whose editor was - larry shaw: the starcombers (novella) edmond hamilton, sfa vol.1 #6, 12/1956, b+w illustration by bowman; science fiction adventures (uk)° #5, 11/1958, with b+w illustration by ed emshwiller hunt the space-witch! (nlla) robert silverberg, as by ivar jorgenson, sfa vol.2 #3, 1/1958, a b+w illustration by bowman the man from the big dark (nlla) john brunner, sfa vol.2 #6, 6/1958 (an interstellar empire story), b+w illustration by ed emshwiller the world otalmi made (novelette) harry harrison, sfa vol.2 #6, 6/1958, a b+w illustration by martinez ° - the uk edition of science fiction adventures started off as a bre (british reprint edition) re-edited by john carnell, as a companion magazine to new worlds & science fantasy, the two other magazines he edited for nova publications; but when the merkin original closed down, instead of closing the bre, john carnell re-launched it as a british original sf magazine, specialising in publishing short sf novels (including novellas) complete in each issue, with short stories to fill the magazines' pages as required. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Oct 2023		lancer books simultaneous second mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers reprint anthology of three novellas and a novelette cover art (unsigned, uncredited; reduced major detail of cover art by (frank) kelly freas for ''the end of eternity'' 72-107 (lancer ), q.v.) cover price 75¢ 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established, nor liable to be, both state only a lancer book • 1968 the card covers' printers seem to've been given inadequate or incorrect instructions - or else to've badly misunderstood lancer books production/art department's directions - and grossly overdone the size of the ''easy eye'' logo, to put it mildly... which didn't leave much room for the major detail of the re-used freas cover art, which had to be considerably over-reduced in consequence. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JimEss SUBS 4th Oct 2023		Covers added. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Larry T. Shaw - Great Science Fiction Adventures - Lancer - Paperback - USA (1968)