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Author:James Blish
Title:The Night Shapes
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Country:USA
Date:Oct 1962
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction
Cat#:F647
Total Editions:6
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ppint.
28th Aug 2020
 ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition

cover art by richard powers (reported signed ''powers'')
cover price 50¢
128pp. including titles, indicia, preface, end pp.including 2pp. glossary of swahili used in novel.
distinguish from near-identical canadian printing by reference to publishing history.
 

 
ppint.
29th Nov 2023
 severn house first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned photo, possibly african tribal mask or fantastic version of, somewhat blue°)
cover (d-j) price £3.95
128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards


° - should any bookcatter possess or come across the d-j of this, please check the flaps for any credit; i didn't record any, but nor that there was none.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
29th Nov 2023
 fix-up of:
the snake-headed spectre (novelette) virginia kidd, jungle stories summer/1949 as by v. k. emden
serpent's fetish (short story) james blish, jungle stories vol.4 #3, winter (1948-9)
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
23rd Nov 2023
 london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''hardware: the definitive sf works of chris foss'' (2011), q.v)
cover price 80p, $2.50 australia
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
19th Jul 2019
 godfrey phillips, new american library (or new english library?°) four square books p/b second printing with new

cover art uncredited, unsigned photographic of diorama with model dinosaurs
cover price 3'6
128pp. including titles, indicia, preface etc, 2pp. appendix and end pp.

° times mirror of los angeles were in the process of buying godfrey phillips' remaining 49% share of four square books ltd, and may have formally put their 51% into new english library by this time; check indicia
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
19th Jul 2019
 godfrey phillips, new american library four square books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art uncredited, unsigned
cover price 3'6
128pp. including titles, indicia, preface etc, 2pp. appendix and end pp.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Other Editions

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James Blish - The Night Shapes - Four Square - Paperback - UK (1963)
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James Blish - The Night Shapes - Four Square - Paperback - UK (1965)
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James Blish - The Night Shapes - Arrow - Paperback - UK - 009184001 (1978)
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James Blish - The Night Shapes - Avon - Paperback - USA - 0380646757 (1983)
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James Blish - The Night Shapes - Severn House - Hardcover - UK - 0727804634 (1979)

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Ballantine Books (USA) 1952-1963 - 153 Books - List by annaloog

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