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Author:	Clifford D. Simak
Title:	Time Is The Simplest Thing
Publisher:	Doubleday
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1961
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	10
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ppint. 12th Dec 2017		n.b. the almost identical 11/1961 (merkin) doubleday sf book club edition does not bear the statement "first edition" in the indicia, and bears printer's code C42 (10/1961) on p.263; does not, or at least should not, bear trade edition's cover price ($3.95) on d-j front cover flap cf. the apparent second doubleday books trade printing bearing C32, which does bear the trade edition's price on its d-j.



ppint. 12th Dec 2017		doubleday & co. first h/cvr printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by mel hunter (credit is for jacket design, on front d-j flap) cover (d-j) price $3.95 (on front d-j flap) 264pp? including titles, indicia etc, bound with end-papers bound between boards n.b. existence of near-identical second printing bearing printer's code C32 (8/1961) on p.263 and which does not state "first edition" on indica page



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		serialised as ''the fisherman'' in analog vol. lxvii #2, #3, #4, #5; 4, 5, 6, 7/1961, and analog bre vol. xvii #8, #9, #10, #11; 8, 9, 10, 11/1961; part one is the cover story, art by h. r. van dongen, redrawn (? or recoloured?) uncredited for the bre; in both, the six (different) b+w illustrations for each episode are also by h. r. van dongen (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		abp group methuen london p/b first printing, third abp group p/b printing, with new isbn, new cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) uniform cover ''surname logo'' design cover price £1.95 (no other territories' prices) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising publication month not given, taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		abp group magnum books p/b second printing with new isbn, new cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.10, $3.95 australia, $4.10 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb undated° second printing, with new cover art by doug (douglas) beekman (signed beekman, uncredited) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° only the 1961 copyright date is given; publication date taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by dave noyes (signed noyes, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. apparent isbn on spine, 0843900198, is a fake - as should all nordon industries leisure books (etc.) be suspected of being 'til the checksum digit is calculated and proves to match that claimed. (this doesn't.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Apr 2023		phoenix house ltd. the science fiction bookclub h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale only to sfbc members by mail-order subscription. not for sale by way of trade to the general public through retailers or via news wholesalers cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited as ''ohn griffiths'' on d-j front flap) cover price 5s 9d plus 1s postage and packing 264pp. including titles, indicia etc, 1 blank end p., sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards, author, title, sfbc & cat# in light blue on spine. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Mar 2021		almost - but *not quite* - all** of methuen/abp group's magnum books general commercial uk p/b imprint bear the (i)sbn publisher prefix no., (0)417- (0)413- is a general methuen prefix no. that was used on methuen/abp group's general commercial paperbacks (and the eyre-methuen commercial h/cvr imprint, inter alia) prior to the decision to set up magnum books as a semi-independent organisation. it was used on some of the first books scheduled before the semi-separation of magnum books was effected, and upon magnum books reprintings of books previously published in various abp group publishers editions. abp - associated british publishers - was a more-or-less accidental british mini-conglomerate publishing group that arose from eyre & spottiswoode (the publishers granted/inheriting the english monopoly upon publishing the bible by queen elizabeth I, just as william collins was granted the monopoly in scotland by king james VI ?) 's amalgamation with (/purchase by) methuen & company, founded relatively recently in 1889 by algernon methuen, and subsequent amalgamations, in a loosely-centrally controlled organisation where each publishing house reported financially to the central board, but retained day-to-day operational independence so long as operating within their centrally-set budgets... (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Jan 2020		fawcett publications crest imprint mmpb probable second printing cover art by richard powers retained from 1962 first crest printing cat# d752 cover price 50¢ no indica publishing history beyond © 1961 for the novel's initial publication 192pp. including titles, indicia etc., end pp. publication date given in data field above presumably taken from donald h. tuck. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Jan 2020		fawcett publications crest books imprint mmpb, first printing°, first p/b edition (° the imprint was later renamed fawcett crest) cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attribution in "the art of richard powers" jane frank (2001), q.v.) cat# d547 cover price 50¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc., end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd May 2019		pan books ltd. first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art uncredited, unsigned cover price 3'6, australia 6'- so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule or not so re-flagged, according to equally respected moderator's heartfelt plea 208pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th Dec 2017		cover art by richard powers, as per first crest printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th Dec 2017		cover art uncredited, recognisably as by richard powers, original art (if it survives) will be signed by him. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Pan - Paperback - UK (1964)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Crest - Paperback - USA (1962)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Crest - Paperback - USA (1964)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Methuen - Paperback - UK - 0413369501 (1977)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Magnum - Paperback - UK - 0417056303 (1980)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - The Science Fiction Book Club - Hardcover - UK (1963)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Leisure - Paperback - USA (1974)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Leisure - Paperback - USA - 0843904801 (1977)

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Methuen London - Paperback - UK - 0413424200 (1986)