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Author:	Clifford D. Simak
Title:	Ring Around The Sun
Publisher:	Simon And Schuster
Country:	USA
Date:	Oct 1953
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	10
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ppint. 21st Jan 2020		merkin first edition h/cvr, month of publication not stated possibly simultaneous with canadadian first h/cvr (musson 1953 reported) cover (d-j) art by paul bacon (credited for cover design on d-j back flap) cover price $2.75 indica publishing history states first printing 244pp. including titles, indica etc. bound with end-papers between boards near-identical merkin sfbc h/cvr 10/1953 lacks cover (d-j) price, should lack "first printing" in indica publishing history (not seen reported either way) other detail differences may well exist.



ppint. 8th Aug 2023		hamlyn/octopus/reed international publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing cover art by alex pang (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand incl. gst 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising publication date given as 7/1990 in locus; re-check this (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jan 2023		new english library p/b second printing, not first nel printing as stated in publishing history° this printing include harry harrison's 1977 introduction cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover - which repeats the front cover art as back-drop to text, price block etc.) (reproduced sans typography in ''the science fiction and fantasy art of tim white'' (uk 1981, 1982, 1992, 2000) cover price 90p, 99p (republic of) ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.85 new zealand ° - states first nel paperback edition september 1979, which is untrue; the first new english library p/b edition was nel four square cat# 1971 (8/1967) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jan 2023		new english library h/cvr first printing, first uk h/cvr edition nel sf masters series cover (d-j) art typographical; possibly art on back of d-j (?) (check) cover (d-j) price £5.95 208pp. including titles, indicia, nf forward by harry harrison etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 24th Jun 2022		world distributors (manchester) ltd. wdl books imprint uk p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by edgar hodges (signed hodges, uncredited) cover price 2'6 192pp. small pocketbook format including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2020		near-identical third avon books mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers, and hence cat#, cover art retained from first avon books mmpb edition, where it's attributed to the three lions agency cover price 75¢ 208pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both stating third printing, december 1969° (° implies the existence of a so-far unreported canadadian-carcassed printing of avon 1967 mmpb S270 retrospectawiggllily accounted their second printing by avon books, which is most likely; or of an as-yet unreported separate second printing c. 1968 avon books mmpb) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2020		cover (seen reported attributed to three lions, a commercial art agency, but source of this not stated) cover price 60¢ 208pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2020		ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik cover price 35¢ nor publication nor printing date given in indica publishing history © 1952, 1953 ½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indica etc, advertising pp. in-between the "double"'s halves month of publication not given; taken from ''double your pleasure: the ace sf double'' james corrick (1989), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 20th Jul 2019		new english library p/b first printing, not first uk p/b, which was wdl books 1960 p/b. cover art uncredited, unsigned cover price 4/-, france 4.60 ff, belgium fr 40, netherlands fl 2.80, germany dm 3.20, switzerland fr 3.30, italy lire 500, austr. 70c so this edition should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea 192pp. including titles, indica etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Sep 2018		cover art by robert schulz (re-used from ace books "½ ace double" "the big jump" leigh brackett (1955), q.v., where it is signed ''schulz'', clearly originally formatted for use on the smaller pocketbook-sized mmpbs previously universally employed by ace books) cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th Dec 2017		doubled with "cosmic manhunt" by l. sprague de camp, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Avon - Paperback - USA (1967)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Four Square - Paperback - UK (1967)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Ace - Paperback - USA (1954)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Ace - Paperback - USA (1959)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Avon - Paperback - USA (1969)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - WDL Books - Paperback - UK (1960)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - Mandarin - Paperback - UK - 0749303530 (1991)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - New English Library - Hardcover - UK - 0450032035 (1977)

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Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun - New English Library - Paperback - UK - 0450033678 (1979)