cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited black and red line-drawn on white (unprinted) ground
cover (d-j) price (none on d-j, $3.50 list price)
256pp. including titles, indica etc, end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
baen publishing enterprises baen books 5/1987 near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb printing
2/1989 baen books third mmpb printing on new isbn, with new bar-code number:
cover art by john melo (unsigned, uncredited; cover art re-sited from 5/1987 first baen printings)
cover price $6.99, u.s 6.99 | can. 9.99 (on spine)
286pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indica etc. (but not table-of-contents, which is on a numbered page(!)), 271 numbered pp, five unpaginated end pp: advertising
cover art is raised and now the whole winged figure is visible, set against a bright blue background (this comment is from another edition of this book)
transworld publishers corgi books imprint third p/b printing
cover art by peter 'paj' jones (signed, dated pan '79)
cover price 95p, $3.50 australia, $3.70 new zealand
192pp..including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art (?by peter a. jones? differs from the 1980 cover art by him, and i haven't spotted his 'paj')
cover price £1.75, $3.95 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp.. advertising
indica publishing history omits the line giving the 1973 printing,
so indicating wrongly this printing to be the third.
notes suggest the isbn may have been confused with that of the 1973 printing, 0-552-09334-3 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover (d-j) art (unsigned; it may've been credited, but i didn't note this)
cover d-j) price 21/-
256pp. including titles, indica etc, sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)
reprint collection of three short stories, four novelettes and a novella
contents:
the year of the jackpot (novelette) galaxy vol.3 #6, 3/1952,
cover story, art by rovpbert arbib, three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller (signed ''willer'')
by his bootstraps (novella) astounding vol.xxviii #2, 10/1941 as by anson macdonald,
cover story, art and four b+w illustrations by hubert rogers
columbus was a dope (short story) startling stories vol. 10 #2, 5/1947, one b+w illustration by rafael astarita
the menace from earth (ntte) f&sf vol.13 #2, 8/1957; new worlds #64, 10/1957
sky lift (ss) imagination vol.4 #10, 11/1953, the cover story, art and one b+w illustration by w. e. terry
goldfish bowl (ntte) astounding vol. xxix #1, 3/1942 as by anson macdonald, three b+w illustrations by frank kramer
project nightmare (ntte) amazing vol.27 #4, 4-5/1953, two b+w illustrations by william ashman
water is for washing (ss) argosy 11/1947 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
transworld publishers corgi books imprint second (? check) printing
first ''corgi sf collector's library'' series design cover printing
cover art by (? signed, but i don't recognise the signature)
cover price 35p (? overseas territories prices?)
192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
reprint collection of a novelette, four novellas and three short stories
cover art by josh kirby (uncredited, unsigned, attribution from ''a cosmic cornucopia'' josh kirby (1999), q.v. and from ansible.uk/misc/joshlist.html)
cover price 3s. 6d., 60c australia, 45c new zealand
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)