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Author:	Arthur C. Clarke
Title:	Expedition To Earth
Publisher:	Sphere
Country:	UK
Date:	1968
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	23973
Total Editions:	13
First Published:	1953
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sphere books limited

first sphere books edition 1968, reprinted July 1968

set in linotype times
text printed in great britain by hazell watson & viney ltd., aylesbury, bucks.
cover printed in england by acorn litho feltham middlesex

dedication: "to walt gillings who must share much of the blame"

176pp including 6pp titles, indica (incorporating list of agents worldwide); 2 end pp: 1p "famous science fiction authors in sphere books" listing (?first?) eleven titles on sphere books sf list by author, indicating hugo & nebulak award-winning authors, plus uk cover prices, and four authors (no titles) "coming soon", 1p advert for samuel r. delany & his three-volume epic trilogy, "the fall of the towers" q.v., forthcoming 9, 11/1968, 1/1969, with the (uk &c.) rights to his "babel-17" & "the einstein intersection" also acquired.
cover art unattributed, variation (apparently a repainting of a mirror-image) upon the first printing's cover art
cover price 5/- (top front cover); australia 80c, new zealand 75c, south africa 60c, east africa 6/00 (bottom back cover)

collection of eleven stories (9 short stories and two novelettes); no table of contents, no individual story acknowledgements.

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Arthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1953)

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ppint. 18th Dec 2023		tbl (thomson books ltd.) group sphere books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by robert mccall (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from new american library h/cvr d-j rotated clockwise 90° (1968), q.v.) cover price 5/-, 6/00s east africa, r0.60 south africa, 80c australia, 65c new zealand 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising mail order service and oversea agencies distributing sphere books worldwide



ppint. 7th Jun 2018		sigh'tablettything seems to dislike the heat; the year dastes of this & ofvsphere books' first printing should both be/1968, not 1978.: correction submitted. 9/2020 edit: and corrected some time between then and now, by courtesy of semi-divine intervention - for which, due thanks.

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