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Author:	Michael Moorcock
Title:	The Black Corridor
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1969
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	06530
Total Editions:	2
First Published:	1969
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Notes

Minor cuts from the UK edition.
Cover by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Based on an idea for a novel started by Moorcock's then-wife, Hilary Bailey.
Dedication: For Hillary, without whom ...

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Michael Moorcock - The Black Corridor - Mayflower - Paperback - UK - 58311640X (1969)

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ppint. 15th Oct 2020		cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 06530 (as per cat# at top front cover image); this is one of the five digit system cat#s allocated by ace books / charter communications, inc. from 1969 (roughly); as the usefulness of the original ace books (single letter indicating price)-(up to three digits) cat# system came to an end, according to a rather peculiar system dividing up #00000 through #99999 in blocks of different sizes according to the expected popularity of the initial letter of the published title (excluding 'a', 'an', 'the'); allocating a number hitherto unused and ending in either '0' or '5' (mostly); and then incrementally increasing this cat# by '1' for each subsequent printing (or expected subsequent printing). some spines bear a number-string, 441-(five digit cat#)-(three digits giving the u.s. cover price in cents); this is not ace books/charter communications, inc.'s cat# for the book, nor its sbn, nor its isbn°. it was not & could not be used to order or re-order the books in any sensible manner from any catalog. ° - it gave the wholesalers and retailers a quick & easy means of sorting stock by publisher and price without having to read the titles, publishers or price information off the front covers, and the wholesalers especially a quick & easy means of totting up the total retail price of a box of 120-240 or so mmpb books stacked in a standard mmpb box containing one layer of books with spines upwards (& all aligned the same way), and so of charging the account the correct $ price for the carton's contents after the % discount given. (this is all before barcodes, bar-code scanners, even machine-readable numbers, and way before relatively cheap computers &c., remember...)

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