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Author:	Fletcher Pratt
Title:	Invaders From Rigel
Publisher:	Airmont
Country:	USA
Date:	1964
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Cat#:	SF 4
Total Editions:	2
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annaloog 6th May 2022		ppint - This is one of a couple hundred or so interesting-looking books I bought cheap at the time, to save for my retirement . Now I've scanned it, it shouldn't be before long I'll get to read it. Judging from the back cover teaser, though, I'm not too hopeful about the plot. Still, I won't mind if I'm pleasantly surprised. Heh, I recall attending a symphony fund-raiser way back in the 1980s, and accumulating an armload of late '40s-early '50s paperbacks; they are somewhere in that retirement stack.



ppint. 5th May 2022		annaloog: you have my sympathies - people do dreadful things to books, completely without excuse... - your copy should have either 1-76 or something similar in very small print at the bottom of p.127, or possibly in the gutter - close to the glue attaching the page to the spine, that is - reading from the inside, usually, of course. - many merkin mass-market as well as trade publishers weren't convinced of the virtues of the standard book number system (the sbn, a nine-digit system later extended to the ten-digit isbn, adding all the world languages to the english language) for several years, and not just because its administrators charged a fee for issuing the guaranteed unique numbers: there was a rival system called the american book number or abn - which may have been significantly cheaper for the merkin mass-market publisher, as it did not issue, define nor use numbers with checksum digits, nor warrant the uniqueness of the individual book numbers, only issue publisher identity codes (which were incompatible with the standard book numbering system's, of course: ace books' was 020, for example) which the publisher prepended to the cat#s they themselves chose, and to which number-string they commonly appended three digits giving the merkin cover price in cents. - and what do you make of fletcher pratt's story ?



annaloog 5th May 2022		Cover variation added ... 95c cover price. Unfortunately the cover has a corner clipped; on the bright side, the price was cheap enough. If this is a 1976 printing, it seems odd that the cover does not have an ISBN. mod edit: images moved to (linked) later printing



ppint. 25th Feb 2019		thomas bouregy & co. airmont imprint small format trade p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art uncredited, unsigned, sfaik unattributed cover price 40¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc. (at least) four further near-identical editions/printings, with rising cover price: 12/1972 cover price 60¢ 5/1973 cover price 60¢ 1/1976 cover price 95¢ (undated, c.1979) cover price $1.50 dates given on p.127 typically with one or two digits month, separator, last two digits of year expansion of ''the onslaught from rigel'' (novella) wonder stories quarterly winter/1932, 5 or 15/12/1931 reprinted in wonder story annual vol.1 #1, 5/1950, with four b+w illustrations by virgil finlay

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Fletcher Pratt - Invaders From Rigel - Airmont - Paperback - USA (1976)