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Author:	Fritz Leiber
Title:	The Big Time
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1961
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	D-491
Total Editions:	11
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ppint. 11th Mar 2024		first book publication of the main change-war (short) novel. winner of the hugo award for best sf novel of the year. serialised in galaxy 3, 4/1958 (galaxy uk #62, 63))



ppint. 17th Jul 2018		half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art unattributed, credited to ed emshwiller in the ace image library, but this has been queried. cover price 35¢ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with the change-war stories collection, "the mind spider and other stories" (1961), q.v.



annaloog 7th Dec 2022		Thanks for the date info. I finally finished reading this ... interesting story concept, but not worth a re-read. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		collier macmillan first printing, not first merkin p/b edition includes fritz leiber's 1982 nf introduction from the berkley publishing group ace books mmpb printing cover art by paul lehr (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price $4.95 ($6.50 canada) 172pp? (check) including titles, indicia, introduction etc, end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		berkley publishing group ace books imprint mmpb first printing (publishing history printing number line) but it's at least the eighth ace mmpb printing including ½ D-491 as first ace books mmpb printing adds new introduction by fritz leiber, afterword by robert thurston cover art by vincent difate fate (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.50 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction etc, end pp. nf afterword, advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		grosset & dunlap charter communications, inc. ace books imprint undated mmpb, seventh printing by placing it after ½ D-491, G-627, 062221, 062219, 062218, 062217 which latter is also cover price $1.50 cover art by jack woolhiser (signed with his initials (may no longer be legible), still uncredited sfaik) cover price $1.50 ?176pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		grosset & dunlap charter communications, inc. ace books imprint mmpb undated sixth printing cover art by jack woolhiser (signed with his initials (may no longer be decipherable), still uncredited sfaik) cover price $1.50 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising year of printing from dates of books advertised in the end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb fifth printing accounting the half ace double as the first cover art by jack woolhiser (signed with his initials but may no longer be decipherable, still uncredited sfaik) cover price $1.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising dated from publication year of the three ursula k. le guin books advertised in end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		ace books imprint mmpb fourth printing, so stated, cat# for no known reason counting down from the implied 06220 which seems to've been notionally applied to G-627 (possibly), instead of increasing the cat# of the thrid printing, 06221, by one, to 06222. if anyone remembers why this was done, and is still alive - i'll be very surprised. . . cover art by jack woolhiser (signature of his initials in black still ~visible (despite the cover background colour being changed to black), uncredited sfaik) cover price 95¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		using 06221 as the first five-digit system cat# implies, but does not definitively establish that there was still some warehouse stock of the second mmpb printing. under normal & intended usage of the five-digit system's progression principle, the fourth ace mmpb printing should've been cat#ed 06222, however. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		ace books mmpb third printing cover art by jack woolhiser (signed with his initials, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising text re-set as indicated by the change in pagination (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		date of this bookclub h/cvr edition is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1992. (wrt the copyright date of introduction by fritz leiber: he wrote it for the 1982 ace books imprint mmpb) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		merkin sfbc h/cvr edition 1/1992 (date from locus) cover art by paul lehr (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap, re-used from 1991 collier p/b first printing) sfbc cat# 19247 on d-j back flap 132pp? (check) including titles, indicia, introduction etc, end pp, quarter bound in black cloth with black paper(?)-covered boards, title and author on spine in gold (this comment is from another edition of this book)



annaloog 6th Nov 2022		No price or ISBN indicated, so, while not explicitly stated, I expect that this is a book club edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Jul 2019		godfey phillips, new english library four square books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6 128pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Dec 2018		ace books second printing. undated save for copyright date, 1967 by interpolation of cat# cover art by hoot von zitzewitz (uncredited, art signed "hoot") cover price 50¢ 128pp? small pocketbook format mmpb including titles, indica etc. reset 8/1972 third ace printing with new cover art by jack woolhiser (signed "jw") cover price 75¢ cat# 06221 number-string 441-06221 on spine is not an sbn indica publishing history states third ace printing: august, 1972 176pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Four Square - Paperback - UK (1965)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA (1967)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Collier Nucleus - Hardcover - USA (1992)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Collier Nucleus - Paperback - USA - 0020698410 (1991)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA - 0441062237 (1982)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA (1976)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA (1975)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA (1973)

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Fritz Leiber - The Big Time - Ace - Paperback - USA (1972)