ppint. 25th Jun 2019
| | first sphere books & first uk p/b edition 1973
cover art by eddie jones (uncredited, art is signed clearly in a very small hand just below the ringworld)
cover price 40p, australia 1.25c (sic), new zealand 1.25c (sic)
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
- or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
288pp. including titles, indica etc, 1 end p.
eddie jones' cover art retained through c. 1984-86 printings,
pagination and therefore typesetting retained through end of sphere & inheritor orbit books printings
second & third printings 3/1976, 6/1976:
reprinted 1976
isbn 0-7221-6393-2
cover price 70p,
reprinted 1976 (second 1976 printing)
isbn 0-7221-6395-9
cover price 75p,
fourth printing 3/1977 (month from locus #203, 8/77)
isbn 0-7221-6395-9
cover price 75p,
1978 (2) fifth & sixth, 1980 seventh printings
eighth printing 1981
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50,
ninth printing 1982
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50, malta £1.59, australia $4.95
tenth 1983, eleventh & twelfth 1984 (2)
thirteenth 1986
fourteenth 1986 (second)
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50,
fifteenth 4/1988 (month from locus)
isbn still 0-7221-6406-8
cover art by chris moore (uncredited, unsigned, it is reproduced in ''journeyman'' moore and stephen gallegher (11/2000), q.v.)
cover price £2.99, australia $9.95
sixteenth 1988 (second)
seventeenth 1990
eighteenth 1990 (1st)
isbn still sphere 07221-6406-8
but now an orbit book, and orbit logo on spine, still visibly a sphere book in part
cover art by chris moore
cover price £3.99,
nineteenth 1990 (second)
twentieth 8/1991 (month from locus)
isbn 0-7088-8374-5 (futura/orbit)
cover art
cover price £4.50,
288pp. including titles, indica etc, 1 end p.
twenty-first 1993,
twenty-second 1994
twenty-third 1995
isbn 1-85723-169-4 (orbit books) (retained 'til end of orbit printings)
cover art (new)
cover price £5.99,
twenty-fourth 1996
twenty-fifth 7/1997
cover art by barclay shaw (retained 'til end of orbit printings)
cover price £5.99,
twenty-sixth 1998
twenty-seventh 1999
twenty-eighth 2001
cover price £6.99
(uk p/b rights revert to gollancz, who held uk volume rights from 1972 & first uk h/cvr, who produced a new uk hardcover with the same sphere/orbit barclay shaw art on d-j late 2001, then b-format uk p/bs) |