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ppint. 30th Aug 2018
| | digest format p/b, being printed upon the same presses as those used for galaxy magazine
cover art by ed emshwiller (signed emsh)
cover price 35¢
128pp. (i've no note of having chcked whether this included the covers)
date is an interpretation of indicia information and this edition may actually have been published in 1954.
anc = american news corporation, galaxy's first distributors - for five years, 'til 1955. (frederik pohl's autobiography, "the way the future was" (1978), q.v. covers this and an awful lot more; recommended.), who created avon books to be their mmpb line in competition with pocket books. who sued anc over this alleged copying of what they claimed was their mmpb line's unique look and feel, including use of the red edge-stain. (pocket books lost on most counts, but avon books - and, implicitly, other mmpb publishers - had to cease using the red edge-stainer on their books: the variety in the different publishers' distinctively-coloured mmpb lines rapidly proliferated into just about all colo[u]rs of the rainbow. |
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ppint. 27th Nov 2017
| | digest p/b format, rather than mmpb. |
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ppint. 7th Sep 2022
| | hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b second impression (printing)
cover art by chris foss (signed with his usually in a line-drawn box F, uncredited, retained from first printing)
cover price 70p, 75c malta, $2.35 australia, $2.25 canada
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 7th Sep 2022
| | cover art by wayne d. barlowe (signed, credited) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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annaloog 16th Aug 2022
| | The publishing history page correctly shows the first printing date, but incorrectly indicates this edition as a second printing ... it is a fourth or later printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 8th Apr 2018
| | avon books near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#,
cover art (signed "ak" but not sfaiaa further identified)
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
refer to indicia to see if carcass of the copy held was merkin- or canadadian- printed.
no date other than the original hardcover publication date of 1952 given in indica: lloyd currey and donald h. tuck both give these two first avon books mmpb printings as being published in 1958,
which fits avon books' cat# sequence correctly. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 8th Apr 2018
| | cover art by gerard quinn
cover price 2'-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
aka "esper", q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 8th Apr 2018
| | hutchinson group arrow books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by chris foss (signed with his usually in a line-drawn box F, uncredited)
cover price 50p, 55c malta, $1.50 australia, $1.20 new zealand, $1.95 canada
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
aka "esper", q.v.
distinguish from near-identical second printing by reference to indicia publishing history for presence/absence of a line stating second impression 1977;
cover price 70p, malta 75c, australia $2.35, canada $2.25 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th Nov 2017
| | first book publication 1952. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th Nov 2017
| | aka and originally "jack of eagles", q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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