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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)