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Editor:	Peter Haining
Title:	The Future Makers
Publisher:	Sidgwick & Jackson
Country:	UK
Date:	1968
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0283980400
Total Editions:	6
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ppint. 11th Aug 2021		sidgwick & jackson first h/cvr printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, almost completely typographical) cover d-j) price 18/- 192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end p., sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between covered boards



ppint. 11th Aug 2021		reprint anthology of seven short stories and a novella, introduction by the editor contents: introduction (nf) peter haining the fourth dimensional demonstrator (short story) murray leinster (astounding vol. xvi #4, 12/1935, with hyphen in title: changing the titles meaning when, as here, it is dropped) the weapon too dreadful to use (ss) isaac asimov (amazing vol.13 #5, 5/1939) abreaction (ss) theodore sturgeon (weird tales vol.40 #5, 7/1948) the piper (ss) ray bradbury (thrilling wonder stories (possibly vol. xxiii #3) 2/1943) columbus was a dope (ss) robert a. heinlein (startling stories vol.15 #2, 5/1947) castaway (ss) arthur c. clarke (fantasy #2, 4/1947, b+w illustration by ''powell'') the hour of battle (ss) robert sheckley (space science fiction vol.2 #2, 9/1953; bre vol.2 #2, 1953; both: b+w illustration by roy g. krenkel) equator (novella) brian w. aldiss (new worlds #75, #76, 9/1958, 10/1958 aka ''vanguard from alpha'') (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Aug 2021		belmont tower mmpb first printing, but a reprint of the belmont mmpb edition with new cover art (unsigned, uncredited; is an irregular zig-zaggedly cut down re-use of the lower part of a striking earlier work; above greater part is typography upon a dark blue ground) cover price 95¢ 176pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising a run-on of this edition with slightly modified cover saw some yuk-of-gb-&-ni distribution as a probably unauthorised flaming books uk p/b (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Aug 2021		first abp / methuen magnum imprint printing, not first uk p/b (was new english library) cover art by chris moore cover price 90p (overseas territories prices?) 176pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Aug 2021		belmont books simultaneous first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first merkin edition cover art by bill duca (unsigned, credited on back cover) looking very paul lehr-influenced cover price 75¢ 176pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state a belmont book---may 1971 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Feb 2021		first new english library printing, first p/b edition cover art by bruce pennington (later used as cover art for the raw material lp, ''time and illusion'' (evolution 1970), (remastered with four additional tracks: evolution cd 2012, q.v.)) cover price 5/-, spain pts 65, (other yeurppean territories?), australia 80c, new zealand 75c 144pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising reprint thematic anthology containing seven short stories and a novella, introduced by the editor: contents as per the 1968 sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first edition & the 1974 somewhat shady-looking uk flamingo imprint run-on of the belmont mmpb, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Apr 2019		reference copy provided courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Peter Haining - The Future Makers - Flamingo Books - Paperback - UK (1974)

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Peter Haining - The Future Makers - New English Library - Paperback - UK (1969)

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Peter Haining - The Future Makers - Belmont - Paperback - USA (1971)

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Peter Haining - The Future Makers - Magnum - Paperback - UK - 0417033605 (1979)

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Peter Haining - The Future Makers - Belmont Tower - Paperback - USA (1974)