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ppint. 27th May 2019
| | ballantine books mmpb first printing, simultaneous with ballantine books h/cvr edition, cat# H-61, joint first editions
cover art by richard powers (uncredited, unsigned: attributed by jane franks)
cover price 35¢
168pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising |
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024
| | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 16th Aug 2022
| | isbn is wrong and should be corrected to ''0140026339'' as per back cover, or else deleted. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 16th Aug 2022
| | brown, watson digit books imprint second printing with new
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia (huh!) etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 29th Feb 2020
| | brown, watson digit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited, reused from ace books 1959 mmpb "we claim these stars" poul anderson, q.v.; attributed to ed valigursky in ace image library
cover price 2'-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th Jul 2019
| | should^W has been re-flagged usa (uk p/b over this period was a penguin book)
the 75¢ cover price, ballantine books, inc. publisher's address in book, etc. should be clues... . (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 28th May 2019
| | '' and c. m. kornbluth'' should^W has been deleted from author field, and re-entered in the co-author field, as per the officially semi-divinely-approved "bookcat way". (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 28th May 2019
| | two near-identical printings/bind-ups sharing slightly differing covers, cat#, isbn and
cover art by vincent difate (credited and art is signed ''v. difate'')
cover price $2.95
this cover price overprinted on front cover with grey rectangle and below, new
cover price $3.95 (canadadian-distributed copies)
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
near-identical 7/1990 second baen books mmpb printing bears new
isbn 0-671-72012-0
cat# 72012-0 and
cover price $3.95 (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th May 2019
| | there seem to be two near-identical penguin p/b printings dated 1979 sharing cover design,
cover art by adrian chesterman (credited on rear cover)
cover price 70p, australia $2.25, canada $1.95
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
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
and also one with differing cover prices:
cover price 80p, australia $2.50
these may be two separate printings, or two bind-ups of the one printing: needs confirmation. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th May 2019
| | penguin books first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on rear cover)
cover price 25p 5/-, south africa R0.60, australia $0.85, new zealand $0.85
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
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
number in the isbn10 field is the sbn actually borne on the book's back cover
it is arithmetically fully compatible with isbn10s (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 27th May 2019
| | near-identical second ballantine books mmpb edition/printing sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#,
cover art by richard powers (uncredited, unsigned: attributed by jane franks; re-used from first mmpb edition in redesigned cover)
cover price 50¢
168pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority stated, but next printing gives a date of august for the canadadian printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 25th Nov 2018
| | cooyright 1985 as the novel was rewritten to considerably greater length by frederik pohl. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 25th Nov 2018
| | cover art uncredited, unsigned
cover price $1.50
168pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
this should^W has been re-flagged a merkin mmpb
(published in uk: 1963 digit p/b, 1968 rapp+whiting h/cvr, 1970 & 1979 penguin p/bs) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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