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Author:	Frederik Pohl as Edwin McCann
Co-authors:	Lester Del Rey
Title:	Preferred Risk
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Country:	USA
Date:	1955
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Business
Total Editions:	3
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ppint. 2nd Oct 2023		simon & schuster h/cvr first printing, first edition winner of the galaxy - simon and schuster contest for 1955's best work of science-fiction - d-j puff-line cover (d-j) art unsigned, design by dick dodge (credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $2.75 252pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards



ppint. 2nd Oct 2023		published as by frederik pohl and lester del rey writing as edson mccann the first edition - so far as is known to yr hmbl srppnt. - to publish the secret of the pseudonym; though according to frederik pohl, it was an open secret within the sfnal world pretty well from the beginning. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Oct 2023		random house group ballantine books simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition adds two nf afterwords by the authors: ''the art and agony of collaboration'' frederik pohl ''risk, but not preferred'' lester del rey cover art by chris barbieri (signed barbieri, credited) cover price $2.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterwords, 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 ballantine books edition: january 1980 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Oct 2023		the collaborative novel h. l. gold, the founding editor of galaxy, persuaded frederik pohl to enter pseudonymously in the simon & schuster-galaxy competition for first novels, none of the received entries being worthy winners in gold's professional judgment - or, possibly, even publishable.° the novel was duly serialised in galaxy vol.10 #3, #4, #5, #6; 6, 7, 8, 9/1955; bre #30, #31, #32, #33; part one was the cover story, art by fred kirberger, all four parts had four b+w illustrations by sanford kossin in the merkin originals, but respectively four, three, two, and four, in the bre (british reprint editions). ° - accounts differ slightly; see ''the way the future was'' frederik pohl (1978), q.v., and the accounts by pohl and by lester del rey in this and the preceding 1980 ballantine/del rey mmpb of ''preferred risk''. first published in book format by simon & schuster, fall (autumn) 1955 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Jun 2021		methuen london p/b first printing, first uk edition includes ''the art and agony of collaboration'' (nf) frederik pohl (1980) and ''risk, but not preferred'' (nf) lester del rey (1980) cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.75, $5.50 australia, $7.75 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, two nf afterwords, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Frederik Pohl - Preferred Risk - Methuen London - Paperback - UK - 0417074905 (1983)

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Frederik Pohl - Preferred Risk - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA - 0345285751 (1980)