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Author:	J. G. Ballard
Title:	The Drowned World
Publisher:	Berkley Medallion
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1962
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	F655
Total Editions:	14
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
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ppint. 23rd Aug 2022		publisher is^W still^W was wrong and should^W still^W has been corrected to berkley medallion



ppint. 26th Apr 2020		berkley publishing group first berkley medallion mmpb printing, first edition so publisher should be corrected to berkley medallion cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from "the art of richard powers" jane frank, richard powers (2001), q.v.) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising



JimEss SUBS 20th Dec 2019		Added the cover images.



ppint. 30th Dec 2023		victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art none, typographical cover in black and magenta on classic ''gollancz yellow'' field with black zigzags cover (d-j) price 15/- 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second printing, 2/1963, which gives month of publication of first printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Dec 2023		heyne bücher p/b first printing, first german language general p/b edition translation originally published by marion von schröder in tp/b (1970), q.v. cover art by karel (c. a. m.) thole (unsigned, credited) cover price (unprinted, list price dm 2.80) 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Dec 2023		orion publishing group gollancz imprint b-format p/b first printing, third printing over-all of the orion publishing group b-format p/b setting previously a millennium imprint p/b sf masterworks series 17 cover art by chris moore retained, still misattributed to jim burns in the indicia credits cover price £6.99 176/184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising stated third impression in indicia publishing history (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 30th Dec 2023		orion publishing group millennium imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition sf masterworks series 17 cover art by chris moore (unsigned, wrongly credited to jim burns but reproduced on moore's website) cover price £6.99 176/184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical millennium imprint b-format p/b second printing, 2000, noted as second impression cover art by chris moore retained, still misattributed in indicia credits cover price £6.99 the near-identical third orion publishing group printing on the same isbn, 2001, is a gollancz imprint p/b (this comment is from another edition of this book)



OldMod67 11th Feb 2023		Cover by Stanley Donwood, with biro drawings copied from Giovanni Piranesi's engravings of 'imaginary prisons'. Fourth Estate is an imprint of HarperCollins publishers who previously published in HarperPerennial in 2006, 2008. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd Aug 2022		carroll & graf mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by tom mcekveny cover price $3.95 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month not given in the indicia; taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd Aug 2022		publisher is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has been corrected to berkley medallion. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jul 2022		penguin books p/b third printing, bearing new isbn incorporating the original penguin cat#, and new cover art by david pelham (the central image of the painting is based upon the chrysler building, ny) cover price 30p, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.25 canada 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising publication month not given, taken from penguin science fiction website (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jul 2022		penguin books p/b second printing, with new cover art by richard hollis (photograph by him? (check) - hollis's credited for cover design) cover price 3/6, 50c south africa, 65c australia, 50c new zealand, 85c canada not for sale in the usa 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jul 2022		orion publishing group phoenix imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first b-format p/b edition cover art by henri rousseau (possibly ''negré attaquée par un jaguar'', detail; credited as ''landscape with setting sun'') cover price £4.99 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. re-uses the dent everyman fiction typesetting, orion publishing group having taken over j. m. dent & sons (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Apr 2022		berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb second printing° (states new edition and date) bearing new cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank, richard powers (2001), q.v.) cover price 50¢ 160pp. include titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - publisher is wrong and should be corrected to berkley medallion (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JimEss SUBS 25th Apr 2022		Added the covers. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Jan 2021		penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition; publication month from penguin website cover art by yves tanguy (detail from ''le palais aux rochers'' in the musée national d'art moderne paris credited on back cover) cover price 3/6 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Jan 2021		j. m. dent & sons ltd. first everyman fiction uk p/b printing 1983, not first uk p/b (was penguin 1965) cover art by nick hardcastle (credited) cover price £2.50 (reported) isbn 0-460-02257-1 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. j. m. dent 8/1992 (second(?)) printing (month taken from locus ): cover art by nick hardcastle (credited) (reproduced shown framed in white border, set on grey ground bearing typography, on isfdb) cover price £3.50 isbn 0-460-02257-1 retained 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. this listing of these two j. m. dent printings does not seem to be compatible with the precise combination of cover design, cover price, and dating of this bookcat item. i do not know whether the cover image associated with the 1992 printing on isfdb is incorrect and should rather be associated with the 1983 first printing. but the next uk p/b edition i have record of (& sold) is the clearly different 3/1993 phoenix imprint edition (published by orion after dent had been absorbed by them, from the same typesetting of the text), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)