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Author:	Arthur C. Clarke
Title:	Expedition To Earth
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Dec 1953
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	52
Total Editions:	13
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ppint. ● 7th Jun 2018		cat# is still incorrect (see 26/12/2017 comment) (corrected by 2/2020)



ppint. ● 26th Dec 2017		cat# should be 52, not H-52, for this simultaneous first edition paperback. H-52 is/was ballantine books' simultaneous hardcover edition. - entering items from other people's reference books has its dangers. . . reprint collection of two novelelettes and nine short stories cover art by richard powers (signed "powers") (sometimes guillotined off edge in production) cover price 35¢



ppint. ● 19th Dec 2023		little, brown & co. (uk) group (= warner books uk group) orbit books general p/b first printing, not first uk general p/b edition cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £5.99, $16.95 australia (recommended) 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, nf preface by the author, etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 19th Dec 2023		and the uk edition gains a table-of-contents! and includes an nf preface by arthur c. clarke © 1998 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 19th Dec 2023		little, brown & co. (uk) group (= warner books uk group) orbit books first printing, first yp/b edition reprint collection of nine short stories and two novelettes, with nf preface by the author dedication: to walter gillings, who must share much of the blame cover art by fred gambino cover price £9.99, $24.95 aus(tralia) 192pp. (xii + 180) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. bar-code number is not truncated; there is no bar-code second element (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 19th Dec 2023		sidgwick & jackson p/b fourth printing (declared in publishing history)°, may be fifth, with new cover art by danny flynn (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.95 (no overseas territories prices) 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 9780283986239 90195 still stated internally to be published by sidgwick & jackson †, still with the sidgwick & jackson isbn (and now with sidgwick & jackson bar-code number etc.) but almost entirely apparently a nel p/b externally. sidgwick & jackson ltd. was/were bought by pan macmillan, and the ''published by/in co-operation with'' arrangements presumably determined - or, at least, ceased to be operated - after this printing. ° - amazonuk list/listed a 1987 fourth printing with the previous cover art by tim white: unless examples of this surface in the real world™ - or a convincing facsimile thereof - this must be regarded as existing only in amazonworld™, and having no concrete existence. ‡ † - published in this edition in 1976 by sidgwick & jackson ltd. reprinted 1980, 1983, 1987 ‡ - and a bookcatter discovers such a rare and currently presumédly mythological beast, please would they/you be so good as to closely examine it, and to report in comment on this page: the isbn, bar-code number (if any), cover price(s), the title page logo, and the indicia publishing history in the wording used upon the indicia page on the reverse of the title page. - thanking you/them in advance, - happy christmice!/god yol!/illuminated eid/hannukah/festive non-denominational winterval, riotous yule!/io saturnalia! - love, ppint. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Dec 2023		sidgwick & jackson p/b second printing, drops the cat# from the spine, bears new isbn, and new typography on cover art by tim white (unsigned, likely credited in tiny print on back cover by spine (check)) cover price 95p, $2.45 new zealand isbn 0-283-98623-9 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising still/again distributed by nel/new english library and bears nel logo on cover indicia publishing history adds line: reprinted february 1980 sidgwick & jackson p/b near-identical 1983 thrid printing differs: cover price £1.50 (any overseas territories prices?) indicia publishing history adds line: reprinted february 1983 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Dec 2023		sidgwick & jackson p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition distributed by nel (new english library) and cover bears distributor nel's logo but declares published by sidgwick & jackson in association with new english library; title page bears sidgwick & jackson; indicia states published in this edition in 1976 by sidgwick and jackson limited cover art by tim white (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced sans typography in ''the science fiction and fantasy world of tim white'' tim white (1981), q.v.) cover price 70p, 77p rep.(ublic) of ireland, pts 185 spain, 75p gibraltar, 75c malta, 750 mils cyprus, $1.95 australia, $2.00 new zealand, $4.20 trinidad (w.i.) 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Dec 2023		tbl group sphere books p/b fifth (check) printing with new isbn, new cover art by david a. hardy cover price 30p, 7/25 east africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.25 canada 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Dec 2023		tbl group sphere books p/b fourth printing, with new cat#, new cover art unsigned, uncredited, of spacewalking space-suited human tethered to spaceship broadside-on behind them, with small second spacewalking astronaut in distance cover price 30p, 7/25 east africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand 176p. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising first sphere books edition 1968; indicia gives printing history: reprinted july 1968, july 1970, june 1972 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 18th Dec 2023		tbl (thomson books ltd.) group sphere books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by robert mccall (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from new american library h/cvr d-j rotated clockwise 90° (1968), q.v.) cover price 5/-, 6/00s east africa, r0.60 south africa, 80c australia, 65c new zealand 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising mail order service and oversea agencies distributing sphere books worldwide (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 31st May 2019		transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by john richards (uncredited, art is signed) cover price 2'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 24th May 2019		pan books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition; two slightly different cover variants° cover art unattributed, unsigned treated photographic cover price 3'6, 6/- 60c australia 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 ° some copies drop the uk price from lower front cover: pan had negotiated extra paper supplies, allowing longer print runs for their p/bs, in exchange for producing a certain minimum (50% ?) as export copies for sale outside the uk-of-gb-&-ni('n'ireland ?); these variants dropped the uk cover price from the front cover, retaining the australian (?including n.z?) cover price - usually on the back cover. some of these ''export covers finished copies'' might actually end up being distributed in the uk-of-gb-&-ni - probably after stock of ''uk covers finished copies'' had run out - with the uk price on a printed label affixed to the front cover - often/usually in the place the uk price was originally printed on the uk finished covers. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 7th Jun 2018		sigh'tablettything seems to dislike the heat; the year dastes of this & ofvsphere books' first printing should both be/1968, not 1978.: correction submitted. 9/2020 edit: and corrected some time between then and now, by courtesy of semi-divine intervention - for which, due thanks. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. ● 27th Dec 2017		ballantine books third printing/edition 7/65 with new cover design, using, greatly-cropped, the same cover art by richard powers (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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