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Author:	Arthur C. Clarke
Title:	Reach For Tomorrow
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Mar 1956
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	823.914
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	135
Total Editions:	3
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Mass market paperback.
12 stories.
Preface by Arthur C. Clarke.
Undated. Copyright 1956.
166 numbered pages.
174 total pages.

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ppint. 6th May 2021		first ballantine books p/b printing simultaneous with ballantine books first h/cvr printing cat# H-135 cover art by richard powers (signed, uncredited; confirmed in "the art of richard powers" jane frank (2001), shared with the ballantine books h/cvr) cover price 35¢ 174pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. the landscape format is strongly reminiscent of the armed services editions, with one side of which publisher ian ballantine had been involved whilst setting up and running the first merkin incarnation of penguin books. undated near-identical second ballantine books p/b printing 12/1956 refer to indica page to distinguish dates of the above printings taken from the 12/1963 normal portrait format ballantine books third (mmpb) printing indica publishing history reprint collection of two novelette and ten short stories with introduction by arthur c. clarke



ppint. 7th Aug 2021		transworld publishers corgi books imprint second p/b printing first ''corgi sf collector's library'' uniform cover design purpley-blue coloured background, outer card cover textured as though woven cover art unsigned, uncredited; style is strongly reminiscent of joe petagno cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.05 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical 1976 corgi books third p/b printing, which differs: cover price 65p, $1.90 australia, $2.15 new zealand reprint collection of two novelettes and ten short stories, introduction by the author contents: preface (nf) arthur c. clarke rescue party (novelette) astounding vol. xxxvii #3, 5/1946; astounding bre vol. v #6, 9/1946 a walk in the dark (short story) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxvi #3, 8/1950 the forgotten enemy (ss) king's college review 12/1948; new worlds #5, 8/1949; avon sf & f reader vol.1 #1, 1/1953 technical error (ss) fantasy #1, 12/1946; thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxvi #2, 6/1950 as ''the reversed man'' the parasite (ss) avon sf & f reader vol.1 #2, 4/1953 the fires within (ss) fantasy #3, 8/1947; startling vol.20 #1, 9/1949 the awakening (ss) future vol.2 #5, 1/1952; future bre #6, 9/1952; revision version in zenith #4, 2/1942 trouble with the natives (ss) marvel sf stories vol.3 #3, 5/1951 as ''captain wxtpthll's flying saucer'', b+w illustration by harry harrison the curse (ss) king's college review 12/1946, cosmos 9/1953, science fiction monthly (australia) #5, 1/1956 time's arrow (ss) science fantasy vol.1 #1, summer/1950 jupiter five (ntte) if vol.2 #2, 5/1953; if bre first strato series vol.1 #2, 12/1953; both: b+w Illustrations by ed valigursky (both: front cover art by ken fagg and both inside covers' art by ed valigursky relate) the possessed (ss) dynamic sf vol.1 #2, 3/1953 (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Arthur C. Clarke - Reach For Tomorrow - Corgi - Paperback - UK - 0552095818 (1974)

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Arthur C. Clarke - Reach For Tomorrow - Del Rey - Paperback - USA - 0345258193 (1977)