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Author:	Philip José Farmer
Title:	The Lovers
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Jun 1961
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	507 K
Total Editions:	4
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Originally published as a novella in the August 1952 edition of Startling Stories.

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ppint. 12th Jul 2020		first edition of the novel expanded from the 1952 novella cover art by richard powers (signed) cover price 35¢ 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising no month of publication given in indica: taken from second printing printing history



ppint. 14th Jul 2020		comprehensively revised and expanded to novel length 1961 further revised 1979 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Jul 2020		near-identical first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence cat#/isbn, cover art and design by les katz and david myers retained from h/cvr edition d-j cover price $2.75 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.25 wholly merkin-printed copies 208pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer also to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both stating paperback edition: first printing: march 1980 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Jul 2020		the 1961 novel is a considerable expansion from the eponymous 1952 novella. this is/these are the first mmpb edition of the further-expanded 1979 h/cvr edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Feb 2018		ballantine books second mmpb printing cover art not credited, but is mati klarwein's 1969 work, "astral body awake" (my identification - ppint.)° cover price $1.25 160pp. including titles, indica etc. ° - also cf. artwork on ballantine books' 1972 mmpb of "the world's desire" by h. rider haggard and andrew lang, q.v. in style, technique & images used. see http://matiklarweinart.com/artworkgallery.php (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 8th Nov 2017		number in isbn13 field is^W was not isbn13. the last 3 digits = cover price in ¢ (us). (number in isbn10 field is the sbn actually borne by this edition.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Philip José Farmer - The Lovers - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1972)

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Philip José Farmer - The Lovers - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 034528691X (1980)

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Philip José Farmer - The Lovers - Del Rey - Hardcover - USA - 0345280326 (1979)