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Author:	A. E. Van Vogt
Title:	Slan
Publisher:	Dell
Country:	USA
Date:	1953
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	696
Total Editions:	8
First Published:	1946
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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A. E. Van Vogt - Slan - Arkham House - Hardcover - USA (1946)

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ppint. 8th Feb 2024		ha! - you're right. i shouldn't've been anything like so categorically and definitely absolute. what i meant was, ''during the lengthy period that 25¢ was so overwhelmingly predominantly the only price of merkin-distributed mmpbs that many publishers didn't bother to print 25¢ upon the covers of many/all of their mmpbs, a cover price of 35¢ wasn't ever a consideration by the merkin newsstands' customers, or the five and dime store owners (shop-keepers), 35¢ wasn't even a recognised mmpb pricemark.'' (and the mmpb was primarily a phenomenon arising from the merkin news distribution system, being treated very like a monthly magazine, being distributed the month before the cover date and its covers being strippable-off for ''return'' for credit in the printed month of publication; some mmpb publishers later started to get relatively small print-runs of their titles' carcases printed in canada, possibly to avoid any importation tax liability, or to satisfy some other canadian legislation - but many did not, whether because they didn't make any great attempt to distribute their mmpbs thither; and those that did, generally still had the covers merkin-printed, either slightly varying them with a canadian cover price, or printing two prices upon all of the one print-run.) edit 12/2/24: i think i've re-written it to say what i meant tolerably clearly...



annaloog 8th Feb 2024		Quote: ... and 35¢ was never an industry pricemark for merkin mmpb editions. ??? 1950s Ballantine PBs, like this example, have a 35c cover price. And Signet's 'S' price code indicates 35c.



ppint. 7th Feb 2024		the 25¢ - 35¢ pairings of elsewise identical, simultaneous or near-simultaneous mmpbs around this time do not seem to be separated in time sufficiently to indicate a price rise across/in any mmpb publisher's general catalogue, and 35¢ was never an industry pricemark for merkin mmpb editions during this period of the heyday of the almost universal 25¢ merkin mmpb. the 35¢ cover-priced copies almost certainly indicate a split between 25¢ mmpb prices for copies intended for general distribution, and 35¢ priced copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, in canada.



JimEss SUBS 25th Jan 2024		Covers added.



ppint. 9th Feb 2020		cover art (unsigned, uncredited; attributed to robert stanley by "dazzling" erin bowman) cover price 25¢, copies also exist 35¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc. the 35¢ cover-priced copies were probably intended for distribution north of the parallel.



ppint. 18th Dec 2017		first book publication year date of 1954 is a chronoclastic impossibility: the first book publication was arkham house's edition (us 1946) with over four thousand copies printed, and the second, revised edition of "slan" was that published by simon & schuster (us 1951). i don't know for certain which text the dell mmpbs follow (first issued with cover price of 25¢, later (? or possibly for distribution north of the parallel) 35¢ with same unattributed cover art and design), but the indica copyright dates include 1951 as well as mcmlxvi (1946), so probably the 1951 simon & schuster edition.

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