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Author:James Blish
Title:VOR
Publisher:  Avon
Country:USA
Date:Apr 1958
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:T-238
Total Editions:5
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ppint.
21st Sep 2018
 avon books mmpb simultaneous firstl printings sharing cover design, cat# and

cover art by art sussman (initials on art)
cover price 35¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
(month of publication taken from later printing's indicia)

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be.

(if canadadian, please check indicia and both sides of cover for statement of where cover was printed, and advise here - thank-you.)
 

 
ppint.
30th Nov 2023
 london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''hardware: the definitive sf works of chris foss'' (2011), q.v.)
cover price 95p, $3.20 australia, $3.75 new zealand, $3.25 canada
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

indicia publishing history miscredits the associated severn house h/cvr (1978) as the first uk edition
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
21st Sep 2018
 avon mmpb 1979 sixth printing retains cover design, art from fifth, cat# 44966, isbn 0380449668, cover price $1.95

thrid & fourth printings not yet seen & examined nor seen reported by yr hmbl srppnt. but thrid likely to share cat#, cover art and possibly typographical design with second, both cover price 60¢; fourth likely to share cat# with second, cover design with either, cover art still by don crowley.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
21st Sep 2018
 avon mmpb simultaneous fifth printings sharing merkin-printed covers and new cat# S415, retaining thrid printing's cover price and art but not typography:

cover art by don crowley (no longer credited)
cover price 60¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin-printed.
no priority established nor liable to be.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
21st Sep 2018
 avon mmpb simultaneous printings sharing merkin-printed covers and also cat#,

cover art by don crowley (credited in indicia)
cover price 60¢
160pp. including titles, indicia, etc.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be. both accounted the second printing by avon books.

first avon printing, april, 1958 (= gives the month for both first avon printings)
second ". . . ". october, 1967
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
21st Sep 2018
 transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first uk publication

dedication: to damon knight whose idea it was

cover art by john richards (signed, uncredited)
cover price 2/6
160 small (merkin pocketbook) format pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, four unnumbered end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Other Editions

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James Blish - VOR - Corgi - Paperback - UK (1959)
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James Blish - VOR - Avon - Paperback - USA (1967)
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James Blish - VOR - Avon - Paperback - USA (1970)
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James Blish - Vor - Arrow - Paperback - UK - 009928030X (1979)

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