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ppint. 28th Sep 2024
| | the berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by herbert norton rogoff (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
192 pp. including 4 unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc.
refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing° which differs:
adds line stating third printing°
° - this statement may have been erroneous, whether through the expected or actual appearance of a near-identical second printing, or the presumption of the existence of a canadian-carcased variant first printing, later accounted the second - or simple publishing office/printer's mistake;
the berkley medallion 11/1975 mmpb cat# Z2997, q.v., bearing new cover art by richard powers is also stated to be the third berkley medallion mmpb in its indicia |
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ppint. 30th Sep 2024
| | abp/methuen london first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.
chris moore's covers art is not a copy of frank kelly freas' art for the daw mmpb, but would seem to owe at least a little to it, for the appealig/appalling figure. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 28th Sep 2024
| | daw books simultaneous near-identical first printings, not first mmpb edition
cover art by frank kelly freas (signed, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.514
cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing number line 123456789
cover price $2.95° canadian-carcased variant intended for distribution north of the parallel,; though published simultaneously, the indicia printing number line first printing, november 1980/23456789 identifies them as the second printing
° - the second letter of the cat# is not varied to reflect the different cover price (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 28th Sep 2024
| | may be the berkley medallion mmpb fourth printing, as an earlier printing is also stated to be the third. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 28th Sep 2024
| | dent/david & charles readers union science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
cover d-j art (unsigned, uncredited yellow & black composition including partial view of a human eye)
cover d-j price (none, though the £1.60 price of the 1972 sidgwick & jackson uk h/cvr is noted)
188 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, perfect bound (check) with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 25th Jan 2020
| | sidgwick & jackson p/b first printing, first uk p/b
published by sidgwick & jackson ltd. (publishers of the 1972 uk library h/cvr edition), possibly "in collaboration with" - and definitely distributed by - new english library (nel) ltd.
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, credited on back cover) (also credited in science fiction monthly vol.1 #7, 7/1974, upon which it is the front cover art)
cover price 40p, 105 pts spain, 45p gibraltar, 45c malta, 450 mils cyprus, $1.25 australia, $1.40 new zealand, $2.40 trinidad (w.i.)
so this edition 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 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 12th Dec 2017
| | cover art by bruce pennington reproduced in "visions of the future" janet sacks (uk h/cvr?, lf p/b 1976) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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