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Author:	Arthur C. Clarke
Title:	Childhood's End
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1953
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	33
Total Editions:	12
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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JimEss SUBS 3rd Jul 2024		Covers added.



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		near-identical ballantine books mmpb second printing 9/53; refer to indicia to establish which printing it is you hold.



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		joint first edition: simultaneous publication with ballantine books hardcover, H-33, but with wraparound cover by richard powers rather than the severely-cropped version on the h/cvr's d-j..



ppint. 4th Aug 2021		english language title is^W was slightly wrong and should^W has been emended by having the space after '' childhood' '' and before '' s '' removed; thus will^W allowing this german language translation to sort together with the english language editions. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2021		near-identical further pan p/b printings differ (cover typography & design changes from time-to-time): 1978 twelfth printing 1979 thirteenth printing: cover price 75p, 82½p republic of ireland, $2.50 australia, $2.50 new zealand 1980 - 1982 fourteenth through sixteenth printings.. 1983 seventeenth printing cover price £1.75 (overseas territories prices?) 198w eighteenth printing (not as-yet seen reported/seen and noted) 198x nineteenth printing by printing history number line (no other numbers) cover price £2.50 (bears no overseas territories prices) ---------------------- the 1990 pan books uk p/b edition prepends a two and a half page ''new chapter'', ''earth and the overlords'', a foreword by arthur c. clarke dated 27/7/1989, and bears new cover art by chris moore isbn 0-330-31661-3 cover price £3.99 208pp? including titles, indicia, foreword etc, end pp. advertising? this will presumably be a new bookcat item, eventually (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2021		pan books uk p/b eleventh printing stated in publishing history cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from that used on ballantine mmpbs throughout the 1970s, credited in the 6/1974 printing) cover price 60p, $1.75 australia, $1.85 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2021		near-identical 1973 pan books uk p/b printing lists two 1970 printings in printing history, giving this as the eighth pan books printing and the previous, 1972 printing as the seventh cover art by chris foss retained from previous printing cover price 30p, 95c australia, $1.00 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2021		pan books sixth uk p/b printing stated cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; art reproduced in ''hardware: the definitive sf works of chris foss'') cover price 30p, 75c south africa, 95c australia, 95c new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising some copies have a b+w prudential insurance advertisement on card bound in between pp. 96, 97 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2021		pan books uk p/b fifth printing cover art by w. f. phillipps (signed) cover price (25p) 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising number in the isbn10 field is the sbn this printing actually bears all sbns are arithmetically compatible with the isbn10 system (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 9th Jun 2021		Added back cover (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		fourth pan books printing/edition; new cover design with cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic vignette or detail cover price 3'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		third pan books printing/edition; still with the pan giant cat#, but apparently no longer a giant - cover prices having proliferated too far for the simple pan - great pan - pan giant trivium to prevail any longer ? cover art by w. f. phillips (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		pan books second printing/edition, with price rise: now a "great pan" p/b indicating 2'6 cover art by s. r. (stephen richard) boldero cover price 2'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th Dec 2017		this is so decidedly not nonfiction (edit 6/2022: this has now been corrected) pan books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by gerard quinn (signed somewhat smudgily) cover price 2'- 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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