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Author:	Alfred Bester
Title:	The Dark Side Of The Earth
Publisher:	Signet
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1964
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	D2474
Total Editions:	4
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 21st Dec 2017		it is unlikely that this book's first publication occurred three years after this edition.



ppint. 21st Dec 2017		signet books mmpb simultaneous first two printings sharing us-printed covers, first edition almost entirely reprint collection of four short stories (one original) and three novelettes cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 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 state first printing, may, 1964



David Whiteley 5th Jun 2022		Added back cover and contents page. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 4th Jun 2022		contents: time is the traitor (novelette) f&sf vol.5 #3, 9/1963; f&sf mellifont bre #5, 2/1954 the men who murdered mohammed (short story) f&sf vol.15 #4, 10/1958; venture bre #8 4/1964 out of this world (ss) 5/1964: seems original to this collection the pi man (ss) f&sf vol.17 #4, 10/1959; venture bre #1, 9/1963 the flowered thundermug (ntte) 1964: seems original to this collection will you wait? (ss) f&sf vol.16 #3, 3/1959; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #1, 12/1959 they don't make life like they used to (ntte) f&sf vol.25 #4, 10/1963 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Feb 2020		also - & previously - published in uk in h/cvr in "an alfred bester omnibus" (sidgwick & jackson 1967), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Mar 2019		pan books first printing, first uk p/b, first separate uk edition, almost entirely reprint collection of four short stories (one original) and three novelettes cover art by w. f. phillipps (uncredited, art is clearly signed lower spine edge) cover price (25p) 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand, (not for sale in canada) so 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 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Oct 2018		second pan books p/b printing of this collection, from same typesetting, but with new uniform(ish) cover design for their sf line, and new cover art by gino d'achille (signed gda, uncredited) cover price 60p, australia $1.75, new zealand $1.85 so 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 176pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Dec 2017		second signet books mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#, cover art by bob pepper (signed "pepper") cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indica etc. refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both seen reported to state second printing, october, 1970 but also one seen reported to not state this: it's possible both were initially accounted the second printing.. - had there been a third merkin signet printing with a simultaneous canadadian-carcassed equivalent, c.1972 or so, these would probably both have initially been accounted the fifth printing, with the bob pepper-covered 1970 couple (re-)accounted the third and the fourth printings over-all, as new american library slowly developed a consistent method of coping with the problem. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Dec 2017		number given in the cat# field is^W was the sbn (9 digits), given incorrectly - the (i)sbn publisher code for pan books is "330" (and *not* "320") - and should^W has been deleted. (ed. yr hmbl srppnt.'s replaced it with the actual sbn. the sbn is arithmetically consistent and compatible with the isbn10 (one is trivially derivable, but should not be ascribed to an edition that does not bear one, lest seeds of confusion be totally unnecessarily sown...) so there is no reason to not enter the sbn in the isbn10 field. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Alfred Bester - The Dark Side Of The Earth - Pan - Paperback - UK - 330023934 (1969)

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Alfred Bester - The Dark Side Of The Earth - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330023934 (1977)

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Alfred Bester - The Dark Side Of The Earth - Signet - Paperback - USA (1970)