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Author:Hal Clement
Title:Still River
Publisher:  Sphere
Country:UK
Date:Nov 1988
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0747401179
Total Editions:2
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ppint.
26th Jan 2022
 penguin books sphere books imprint uk p/b first printing, first p/b edition, first uk edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited (prob'ly by chris moore as the background is by him°)
cover price £3.50, $9.99 aust(ralia), $13.99 n.z.
280pp? (check) including titles, indica etc, end p.
only year of publication stated: month taken from locus

° - part of his cover art for ''the legacy of heorot'' (sphere 1988 unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''journeyman: the art of chris moore'' chris moore, stephen gallegher (uk 2000));
the rocket or jet craft super-imposed upon this is not excessively clearly defined, and may be from another cover painting by chris moore - or by an altogether other artist - also owned, or rights licenced, by sphere books.


penguin books (pearson longman group) were very shortly to sell sphere books (less some prize plums) to robert maxwell's macdonald futura / maxwell communications / etc. initially retaining the 27 wrights lane editorial address, but ultimately sphere books sf & fantasy list would be subsumed into the orbit books imprint, and general fiction into first the futura, and then the warner books imprint, after that bouncing czech failed to float after taking a leak off his yacht in the mediterranean - only to reappear as the sphere imprint, when warner communications sold off their uk & merkin & worldwide publishing arms. or wings. or legs...
 

 
ppint.
29th Aug 2018
 ballantine books del rey series simultaneous mmpbs, first mmpb edition; preceded by sphere books p/b
near-identical printings sharing merkin-printed covers, cat# and isbn, and hence also

cover art by don dixon (attributed) (retained from d-j art of ballantine del rey h/cvr first edition 1987)
cover prices $5.50 can $3.95 us
272pp? including viii pp. titles, indica etc,
refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be. copies with canadadian carcasses intended for distribution north of the parallel.
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Hal Clement - Still River - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 0345329171 (1989)

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