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Author:Brian W. Aldiss
Title:Billion Year Spree
Publisher:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country:UK
Date:1973
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Non-Fiction, History, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0297765558
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
9th Aug 2021
 weidenfeld & nicolson 1973 first h/cvr printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned, mostly typography, all upon deliberately chosen ''gollancz yellow'' background
cover (d-j) price £3.75
352pp? (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, two unpaginated photographic sections of 4pp. each between pp.70+71, and pp.216+217, end pp; sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between covered boards

distinguish from near-identical weidenferd & nicolson 1974 second printing on same isbn which differs:
indicia publishing history adds line:
second impression july 1974
 

 
ppint.
9th Aug 2021
 transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first p/b edition
''corgi sf collector's library'' series uniform cover design
purpley-blue coloured background,

cover art by patrick woodroffe (unsigned, uncredited; in ''mythopoeikon'' patrick woodroffe (1976))
cover price 75p, $2.15 australia, $2.10 new zealand, $2.75 canada
404pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 4 unpaginated pp photographs between pp.164 and 165; end pp. advertising
''brian aldiss'' on cover, ''brian w. aldiss'' on title page

non-fiction, but still declared sf on covers, as part of the ''corgi sf collector's library''.
awarded the british science fiction association's special award for 1973
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Brian W. Aldiss - Billion Year Spree - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 0552098051 (1975)

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