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Author: Robert A. Heinlein Title: Orphans Of The Sky Publisher:   Berkley Medallion Country: USA Date: 1974 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction Cat#: S1908 Total Editions: 4 First Published:   1963 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Previously published as a two-part serial ("Universe", "Common Sense") in Astounding Science Fiction, © 1941 by Street and Smith Publications
© 1963 by Robert A. Heinlein
Published by arrangement with G. P. Putnam's Sons
Berkley Medallion edition, Nov 1970
- 5th printing [1974]
SBN 425-01908-X
Two parts ("Universe", "Common Sense"), 128 pp.
cover illustration: (not credited)
cover price 75c

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Robert A. Heinlein - Orphans Of The Sky - Mayflower - Paperback - UK (1965)

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ppint. 28th Jul 2022		the genre ''science'' is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted.
ppint. 28th Jul 2022		berkley publishing group berkley medallion simultaneous mmpb first printings, 11/1970: cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed (looks like paul lehr, but this is not an attribution) cover price 75¢ 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. 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 berkley medallion edition, november, 1970 check also to distinguish from near-identical further berkley medallion imprint printings: ... ... undated stated 4th printing (background cover art colour is darker) ... ... undated stated 7th printing (background cover art colour is bluer, as well as darker) undated stated 8th printing cover price 95¢ cat# N2823 (background cover art colour is darker and bluer) undated stated ninth printing cover price $1.25 cat# Z3217 cat#, price, imprint & logo now run in one line up upper half of fly edge of front cover, not by spine (background of cover art colour is bluer, as well as a bit darker) undated stated tenth printing cover price $1.25 cat# Z3217 (background of cover art colour is bluer, as well as darker) ... undated stated twelfth printing cover price $1.50 cat# dropped from cover isbn 0-425-03786-X (background of cover art is bluer, as well as a bit darker) undated, stated 13th printing cover price $1.75 isbn 0-425-04410-6 cover now states a berkley book, but retains berkley medallion logo (background of cover art is a greener blue, verging on a dark turquoise) --------------------- 1980 berkley books mmpb printing states 14 printings through 1980, berkley books ''swirled B'' logo replaces berkley medallion logo, bears new cover art by carl lundgren (signed) cover price $2.25 isbn 0-425-04867-5 ... ... ... 11/1983 berkley books mmpb printing stated to have been seventeenth printing in indica of 1/1985 printing 1/1985 berkley books mmpb printing states eighteenth printing cover art by carl lundgren (retained from 1980 printing) cover price ($2.95 canada) • $2.75 u.s. isbn 0-425-08225-3 ... ... ... 3/1987 ace books (by now an imprint of berkley publishing group) mmpb first printing cover art by carl lundgren retained from berkley books imprint mmpb printings cover price ($3.95? canada) • $2.95 u.s. isbn 0-441-63913-5 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (as are all of the above) ... ... ... 8/1989 ace books imprint mmpb third printing text evidently re-set as pagination increases: cover art (?james warhola?) cover price ($4.75 canada ? check) • $3.50 u.s. isbn 0-441-63913-5 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of printing taken from locus ... ... ... 1992 undated ace books mmpb fifth printing by publishing history printing number line (year taken from end pp. advertisement for new nf heinlein title ace h/cvr forthcoming in april 1992) cover art by james warhola (unsigned, credited) cover price ($5.99 canada) • $4.99 u.s. isbn 0-441-63913-5 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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