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Author:	Robert A. Heinlein
Title:	Double Star
Publisher:	Signet
Country:	USA
Date:	Oct 1957
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	S1444
Total Editions:	7
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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159 numbered pages.
160 total pages.

First Signet printing, October 1957
cover artist: Richard Powers

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annaloog ● 23rd Nov 2022		Responding to a correction request, the link to other editions has (somehow) been restored.



ppint. 6th Nov 2022		signet books imprint ~simultaneous 1957 first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by richard powers (signed powers on back cover, uncredited sfaik) cat# S1444 cover price 35¢ 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed i do not know whether the canadadian-carcassed copies bear the same or a different printing month.



ppint. 12th Jun 2019		possibly granada publishing panther books third printing by indica publishing history; re-set; new cat# 25022 (introduces final, checksum digit from sbn 586-02502-2) on cover cover art uncredited, unsigned (treated photographic, a multicoloured metallic whorl on a black ground) cover price 3'6 144pp. including titles, indica etc, end p. fourth printing (1969) bears new cover art uncredited, unsigned photographic, of glistening crystalline minerals, on black ground adds sbn to cover 586 02502 2 cover price 5/-, australia 80c, new zealand 75c, south africa 60c 144pp. including titles, indica etc. fifth printing (1974) bears new cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (credited on rear cover) cover price 45p, australia $1.20, new zealand $1.20 144pp. including titles, indica etc. sixth printing (1976) bears new cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (credited on back cover) cover price 50p, australia $1.60, new zealand $1.70, canada $1.75 144pp. including titles, indica etc. seventh printing (11/1986) bears new cover art by peter elson (credited?, signed) cover price £1.95, 144pp. including titles, indica etc. (publisher is now renamed grafton books from granada, following purchase by wm. collins sons ltd., but panther books' isbn retained, and quite possibly the panther books name, too, in places, although the indica now claims the first uk p/b was published by grafton. . .) (unsold warehouse stock of seventh printing reissued with printed cover prices blanked out with slightly (?) rubbery - plasticky (?) black ink and bear new cover prices £2.99, australia $9.95, new zealand $12.95) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Jun 2019		year in first published in book edition field is^W was still wrong; should^W has now been corrected to 1956 first published in merkin h/cvr by doubleday in 1956. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th May 2018		date in first published field is still wrong: should be 1956 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2018		signet/new american library mmpbs with cat# P3669 and those with cover art by gene szafran: are preceded by those bearing the same cat#, but with cover art a detail from the first two preceding signet mmpb editions' cover art by richard powers; but i am missing some information. S1444 first signet merkin mmpb edition 10/1957; may be simultaneous with near-identical S1444 first signet canadadian mmpb edition (i've not knowingly seen this) also seen reported as 11/1957; new american library seemingly accounted this second printing when numbering the first few subsequent merkin mmpb printings; D2419 declared third merkin printing 1/1964 in indica, simultaneous with near-identical canadadian printing, declared second canadadian printing in indica. cat# ? fourth merkin mmpb printing ? i've not yet seen this. P3669 declared fifth printing in indica, cover art by richard powers P3669 sixth mmpb - i've no record of seeing P3669 declared seventh printing in indica, cover art by richard powers P3669 eighth printing - i've no record of having seen this P3669 declared ninth printing in indica, cover art by gene szafran P3669 declared tenth printing in indica, cover art by gene szafran P3669 declared eleventh printing in indica, cover art by gene szafran T5566 declared twelfth printing in indica, cover art by gene szafran Y6606 declared thirteenth printing in indica, cover art by gene szafran Y6606 14th printing: lists numbers 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in indica, cover art by gene szafran W8188 15th printing: lists numbers 15 16 etc, cover art by gene szafran E8905 16th printing: lists numbers 16 17 etc, cover art by vincent di fate E8905 17th printing: i've no record of seeing this E8905 18th printing: lists numbers 18 19 etc, cover art by vincent di fate E8905 0451089057 19th printing: lists numbers 19 20 21 22 etc, cover art by vincent di fate 0451126955 20th printing reported (definitely not seen by myself). (and 11/1986 saw the publication of the first ballantine/del rey mmpb edition.) (comments making additions and corrections from copies held & examined welcomed. . .) (it's alas all too easy to pass on tyops and other errors, even from reputable publications.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2018		second panther books printing or edition, with new cover art uncredited, unsigned (art is reminiscent of paul lehr in style, but this is not an identification.) cover price 2'6 128pp. including titles, indica etc, end p. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2018		first published year date should be 1956, not 1957 (nor 1958) as first edition doubleday merkin & canadadian hardcovers published 1956 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Jan 2018		hamilton & co. panther books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by richard powers re-used - in very muted colours - from that for the 7/1958 merkin fawcett crest mmpb of "ralph 124C41+" by hugo gernsback, q.v. cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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