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Author:Lester Del Rey
Title:Nerves
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Country:USA
Date:Jun 1956
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:151
Total Editions:7
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ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 ballantine books first p/b printing, simultaneous first edition
simultaneous with ballantine books h/cvr first edition, cat# H-151

cover art by richard powers (signed powers, uncredited)
cover price 35¢
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 random house group ballantine books mmpb revised edition third printing, seventh printing over-all

cover art by don brautigam, retained from previous printing, miscredited again to don brautigan
cover price $1.95
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia (ha!) etc, end pp. including nf historical note, advertising


the indicia publishing history is still a mess, but slightly less so than the previous printing:

a space is added after the puzzling special printing;

and the unlikely strange sixth printing: september 1976, apparently of the unrevised edition, is deleted;

unfortunately, an equally unlikely, implicitly unrevised:

seventh printing: november 1979

presumédly referring to this third printing of the revised edition, takes its place.

- ''eheu!''
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 random house group ballantine books revised edition mmpb second printing, over-all sixth mmpb printing?°

cover art by don brautigam (unsigned, credited detail from inside cover art of first revised printing)
cover price $1.50
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


° - the indicia publishing history is a mess, and requires deciphering:

first revised edition:
first printing: april 1976
sixth printing: august 1977
first special printing august 1976
first edition: june 1956
fifth printing: february 1974
sixth printing: september 1977

i do not believe that there were four (unlisted) printings of the revised edition between the first, in april 1976, and the sixth printing listed immediately after it, for august 1977;

nor that the unrevised edition received a further ballantine mmpb printing after the revised edition mmpb was published by ballantine books - so the sixth printing: september 1977 seems to be a phantom;

and i've no idea what the hitherto unmentioned ''first special printing'' listed for august 1976 was;

on top of which, the listed february 1974 printing does not appear to exist in the real world...


so i'd fairly confidently state that the two listed 1977 printings for august & september are both of the second mmpb printing of the revised edition - they're both p/bs of the same extent, and both are longer than the 160pp. of the unrevised edition's setting;

that the first revised printing was probably the fifth ballantine mmpb printing over-all;

and the listed february 1974 fifth printing of the unrevised edition probably does not exist;

- but i've still no idea what the 8/1976 special printing actually was, and why it wasn't an mmpb printing.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 random house group ballantine books mmpb revised edition, first printing (fifth printing over-all)

cover art by don brautigam (including inside doubke-page art) (unsigned, miscredited as don brautigan)
cover price $1.50
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. historical note (nf) lester del rey, advertising

a detail from the inside double-page art is used just above the title on the cover of the next printing
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous fifth° printings, with new cat#, new isbn, new

cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.25
160pp. (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 fifth printing, february 1974°

° - this seems to be an error, and this to be the fourth printing; in this printing's indicia,
the fourth printing listed as 0-345-22069-2, 3/1971, does not appear to exist in the real world...

- if upon checking, you should find such a beast, please list it here in as much detail as possible!
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 ballantine books mmpb third printing, with new cat#, new

cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 75¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

may (should?) state an intext publisher on title page and/or in the indicia
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
2nd Oct 2023
 ballantine books mmpb second printing, with new cat#, new

cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the art of richard powers'' richard powers, jane frank (2001), q.v.)
cover price 59¢
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 034524995X (1976)
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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1966)
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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1970)
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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345237897 (1974)
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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345271637 (1977)
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Lester Del Rey - Nerves - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345289129 (1979)

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