j. m. dent & sons readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
collection of six short stories, two novelettes and a novella, and two poems
cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited on d-j flap (check); a blob variant in yellow on white)
cover (d-j) price c. 7/- or 7/6d. including 1s. postage
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)
pan books fourth (and possibly thrid) printing, now bearing isbn incorporating original cat# and new
cover art by chris foss (unsigned - or i've missed it, uncredited; collected in ''hardware'' foss (1991), q.v.)
cover price 30p, r0.75 south africa, 95c australia, 95c new zealand
256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
cover design changes from time-to-time, but cover art by chris foss retained through tenth printing:
fifth printing 1973
sixth printing 1974; cover price 40p, $1.25 australia, $1.20 new zealand; white line logo & titles, as fourth
seventh printing
eighth printing 1978; cover price 75p; red logo, titles: black type on silver cartouches (through tenth printing)
ninth printing 1979; cover price 85p, 93½p r(epublic)o(f)i(reland), $2.95 australia, $2.95 new zealand
tenth printing 1982; cover price £1.50 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
pan books first printing, first uk p/b edition
at least one further near-identical printing, possibly two, before new cover art by chris foss
cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed; in large scalloped-bordered circle below halfway down below author, title, centered on a black ground
cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, (8/-) 80c australia, 6/6 new zealand
256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
near-identical second pan books p/b printing 1967:
cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, (6/6) 85c new zealand
(i've no note of having seen pan books third p/b printing: if you check and find you hold one such, please add a comment here, if it's near-identical to this cover description, giving cat#/sbn/isbn, cover prices and the wording of the statement of its being the third printing from the indicia on the reverse of the title page. thank-you. ppint.)
(it's more likely to bear the chris foss art and if it does, adding the comment on that ''bookcat item'''d be more immediately useful - but here'd do ok...) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
dennis dobson first printing, first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned, mainly b+w, vaguely like a side view of a car wheel & tyre with title & author's name circumscribed, author's name in green
cover (d-j) price 15/-
224pp? including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)
bantam books mmpb simultaneous first printing sharing merkin-printed covers, first mmpb, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed
cover price 35¢
208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc.
refer to indicia printng history to see if carcass (''book'') of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state bantam edition published july 1950 (this comment is from another edition of this book)