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Author:Lester Del Rey as Edson McCann
Co-authors:Frederik Pohl
Title:Preferred Risk
Publisher:  Dell
Country:USA
Date:Mar 1962
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:R114
First Published:  1955
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ppint.
25th Oct 2020
 serialised in galaxy vol.10 #3, #4, #5, #6; 6, 7, 8, 9/1955 (bre #30, #31, #32, #33)
part one cover story, art by fred kirberger (signed kirberger),
all four parts 4 b+w illustrations each, by sanford kossin (bre have respectively 4, 3, 2, & 4 only of these).
 
 
JimEss SUBS
14th Dec 2019
 Added front and back covers.
 
 
ppint.
5th May 2019
 near-identical editions/printings sharing covers and hence also cat#,

cover art by richard powers (signed, credited as r. m. powers on back cover)
cover price 40¢
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indica to see if carcass (?and covers?) of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
 
 
ppint.
4th May 2019
 collaborative pseudonym of lester del rey and frederik pohl
written° by them at the request of h. l. gold, editor of galaxy to be the prize-winning novel in a competition for the best sf novel by a previously-unpublished author, none of the received competition entries being judged publishable by h. l. gold or the editors at the co-sponsoring h/cvr publishers, simon & schuster.

° - or agreed to be entered under the pseudonym as a first novel and winner of the competition, at his request; accounts have differed slightly, over the decades.

first edition published in hardcover by simon & schuster 1955 q.v.
 

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