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Author:Theodore Sturgeon
Title:A Touch Of Strange
Publisher:  Doubleday
Country:USA
Date:1958
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:7
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ppint.
4th Jan 2018
 doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by joseph mugnaini (credited on front flap)
cover (d-j) price $2.95
printer-bookbinder's date gutter-code "23" on p.262 (last printed?)
264pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards


the near-identical 10/1958:merkin doubleday sf book club edition: dust-jacket flap betrays this (unless price corner clipped); also its printing date gutter-code on p.262 differs ("32" for 10/58)
 

 
ppint.
8th May 2024
 almost all mmpbs follow this, not the full contents of the doubleday first edition & book club editions, until the hamlyn paperbacks uk p/b & the daw mmpb 1978 editions, which are complete.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
8th May 2024
 publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
8th May 2024
 contents:

mr costello, hero (novelette) galaxy vol.7 #3, 12/1953; galaxy strato bre #14, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
the touch of your hand (novella) galaxy vol.6 #6, 9/1953; galaxy strato bre vol.3 #11, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
affair with a green monkey (short story) venture vol.1 #3, 5/1957
a crime for llewellyn (ss) mike shayne mystery magazine 10/1957
it opens the sky (nlla) venture vol.1 #6, 9/1957, the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, with one b+w illustration by john giunta; venture atlas bre #9, 5/1964
a touch of strange (ss) f&sf vol.14 #1, 1/1958; venture atlas bre #20, 4/1965
the other celia (ss) galaxy vol.13 #5, 3/1957; galaxy strato bre #50, both: with one b+w illustration by diane dillon, leo dillon
the pod in the barrier (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #5, 9/1957 with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood; galaxy strato bre #56, 11/1957 with one b+w illustration by wallace wood
the girl had guts (ntte) venture vol.1 #1, 1/1957 with one b+w illustration by john giunta
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
4th Jan 2018
 daw books near-identical mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed comers,
not first mmpb edition

cover art by hans arnold (unsigned, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.286
cover price $1.95
256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, april 1978
and both bearing full first printing number-string 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

should the first two digits, "1 2", be absent from the indicia printing number-string,
then it is the third printing, which yr hmbl srppnt. has not yet seen, nor seen reported:
one of the two simultaneous first printings would retrospectively be deemed to have been
the second printing (this is conventionally taken to have been the canadian-carcased variant).

if this is the case, please wybsg as to post a comment "here" giving the precise wording
(new american library, who produced and distributed daw mmpbs for donald wollheim
changed their systemic declaration of printings from time to time, and also whether
they stated the printing or publication dates of identical reprints - or, indeed, neither.)
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
4th Jan 2018
 berkley medallion mmpb edition first printing, berkley publishing group second mmpb printing over-all

derivative reprint collection containing seven of the first edition's nine stories

cover art by mike trent (reported signed)
cover price 50¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 contains all nine stories of the original collection.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 publisher should be corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

seven stories from the original collection's nine; drops: "the girl had guts" & "the pod in the barrier"

near-identical editions/printings sharing covers° and hence also cat#,

cover art by richard powers (signed "powers")
cover price 35¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian°- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both stating berkley edition, october, 1959

° - should you hold a copy of the canadadian-carcassed variant, please post the indica
wording identifying this and the statement of where the cover's printed - thanks. pp.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb first complete mmpb edition

reprint collection of nine stories (seen reported to contain all nine)

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 95¢
232pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc.

number in isbn10 field is the sbn given in the indicia
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 the beautiful tim white cover painting is reproduced sans typography in "the science fiction and fantasy world of tim white" (1981), q.v.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
25th Nov 2017
 hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition

reprint collection of two novellas, three novelettes and four short stories

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 85p, 93½p republic of ireland, $2.95 australia
238pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

contains all nine stories in the original 1958 doubleday hardcover edition
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Other Editions

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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Berkley Medallion - Paperback - USA (1959)
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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Berkley Medallion - Paperback - USA (1965)
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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879973730 (1978)
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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Berkley Medallion - Paperback - USA - 42501830X (1970)
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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Hamlyn - Paperback - UK - 0600387836 (1978)
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Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange - Berkley Medallion - Paperback - USA (1970)

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