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ppint. 20th Jun 2022
| | avon books avon imprint mmpb first printing, first avon books mmpb printing, not first mmpb edition
two simultaneous printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price $1.50
224pp. 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 first avon printing, august, 1978
indicia erroneously states equinox printing which was the previous, 1974 avon equinox sf discovery edition, which was a trade p/b. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 20th Jun 2022
| | avon equinox b-format tp/b first printing, not first merkin p/b edition
sf rediscovery series #2
cover art unsigned, uncredited; style is strongly reminiscent of diane & leo dillon°, but this is not an attribution
cover price $1.95, $2.45 canada
canadian cat# 21261
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc
° - the sf discovery series was edited by charles platt, so mal dean is also a possibility (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 20th Jun 2022
| | berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb
cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank (2001))
cover price 50¢
144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | science fiction book club h/cvr edition distributed to the sfbc members only, not for sale to the public through bookshops nor for distribution through the book trade.
cover d-j art by john griffiths (variant of his semi-uniform ''oak tree-rings'' sfbc design, in black ink)
cover price (none, membership was by subscription)
224pp. including titles, indicia, preface by edmund crispin etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | faber & faber uk h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art (photographic, photo by dennis johnson credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 18/- (later rising to 21/-, but i don't know if reprinting, or just a price rise on the d-j, but still faber's first printing)
224pp. including titles, indicia, nf preface by edmund crispin etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | thomson books ltd. sphere books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by david davies (?agency?) (credited on back cover)
cover price 5/-, 6/00s east africa, R0.60 south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | sphere books second uk p/b printing
states science fiction classic no.4 along bottom of cover, but no uniform sf classic cover design
cover art by eddie jones (signed on belt)
cover price 30p, 7/25s east africa, 75c south africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | sphere books third uk p/b printing
cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from the artist)
cover price 85p, 93½p eire, 85c malta, $2.75 australia, $2.75 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 18th Jul 2021
| | all uk editions of ''the syndic'' include edmund crispin's preface written for faber & faber's first uk edition (1964) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 24th Dec 2019
| | cover art by richard powers (attributed by jane frank in "the art of richard powers" (2001)) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 24th Dec 2019
| | most commonly published under his normal by-line "c. m. kornbluth"°, q.v.
° - including on works written in collaboration with frederik pohl, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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