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Author: Clifford D. Simak Title: Time Is The Simplest Thing Publisher:   Methuen Country: UK Date: 1977 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0413369501 Total Editions: 11 First Published:   1961 Rating: 10.0  Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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magnum logo (spine)
magnum logo over magnum (front cover)
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eyre methuen (title page)

methuen paperbacks edition
printed for eyre methuen ltd.
11 new fetter lane, london ec4p 4ee (uk)
by cox & wyman ltd,
london, reading and fakenham (uk)
0 413 36950 1 (methuen paperback)

192pp including 4pp. titles, indica; 1 end p. advertising "also available in methuen paperbacks" "way station" by clifford d. simak
cover art by chris moore (credited in "the flights of icarus" martin dean, roger dean, donald lehmkuhl (1977), p.139)
cover price 70p, australia °$2.10
°recommended only

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Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing - Doubleday - Hardcover - USA (1961)

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ppint. 16th Apr 2023		serialised as ''the fisherman'' in analog vol. lxvii #2, #3, #4, #5; 4, 5, 6, 7/1961, and analog bre vol. xvii #8, #9, #10, #11; 8, 9, 10, 11/1961; part one is the cover story, art by h. r. van dongen, redrawn (? or recoloured?) uncredited for the bre; in both, the six (different) b+w illustrations for each episode are also by h. r. van dongen
ppint. 9th Mar 2021		almost - but not quite - all of methuen/abp group's magnum books general commercial uk p/b imprint bear the (i)sbn publisher prefix no., (0)417- (0)413- is a general methuen prefix no. that was used on methuen/abp group's general commercial paperbacks (and the eyre-methuen commercial h/cvr imprint, inter alia) prior to the decision to set up magnum books as a semi-independent organisation. it was used on some of the first books scheduled before the semi-separation of magnum books was effected, and upon magnum books reprintings of books previously published in various abp group publishers editions. abp - associated british publishers - was a more-or-less accidental british mini-conglomerate publishing group that arose from eyre & spottiswoode (the publishers granted/inheriting the english monopoly upon publishing the bible by queen elizabeth I, just as william collins was granted the monopoly in scotland by king james VI ?) 's amalgamation with (/purchase by) methuen & company, founded relatively recently in 1889 by algernon methuen, and subsequent amalgamations, in a loosely-centrally controlled organisation where each publishing house reported financially to the central board, but retained day-to-day operational independence so long as operating within their centrally-set budgets...

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