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Editor:	Kingsley Amis
Co-editors:	Robert Conquest
Title:	Spectrum
English Title:	Spectrum 1
Publisher:	Victor Gollancz
Country:	UK
Date:	Sep 1961
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	3
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ppint. 17th Nov 2022		victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint anthology containing two novellas, five novelettes and three short stories, introduction by the editors cover (d-j) art (none: typographical in black and magenta on ''gollancz yellow'' ground; thin black zigzags surrounding the typography) cover (d-j) price 18/- 304pp. (check) including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards author field should^W has been varied to editor, and co-author to co-editor.



ppint. 19th Nov 2022		author field should^W has been varied to editor, and co-author to co-editor. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 19th Nov 2022		reprint anthology of two novellas, five novelettes and three short stories, introduction by the editors (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 19th Nov 2022		contents: introduction (nf) kingsley amis, robert conquest the midas plague (novella) frederik pohl, galaxy vol.8 #1, 4/1954; galaxr bre #18, 9/1954; both: 3 b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller limiting factor (short story) clifford d. simak, startling stories vol. 20 #2, 11/1949 the executioner (novelette) algis budrys, astounding vol. lxvi #5, 1/1956, 4 b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas; astounding bre vol. xii #6, 6/1956 (no illustrations) null-p (ss) william tenn, worlds beyond vol.1 #2, 1/1951 the homing instinct of joe vargo (ntte) stephen barr, f&sf vol.17 #6, 12/1959; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #4, 3/1960 special flight (ntte) john berryman, astounding vol. xxxiii #3, 5/1939 inanimate objection (ntte) h. chandler elliott, galaxy vol.7 #5A, 2/1954; galaxy bre #17, 7/1954 pilgrimage to earth (ss) robert sheckley 1956, playboy 9/1956, f&sf vol.12 #6, 6/1957 as ''love, incorporated'' unhuman sacrifice (ntte) katherine maclean, astounding vol. lxii #3, 11/1958; asf bre vol. xv #2, 2/1959; both: 3 b+w illustrations by john schoenherr by his bootstraps (nlla) robert a. heinlein, astounding vol. xxviii #2, 10/1941; cover story, cover art & 4 b+w illustrations by hubert rogers (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Nov 2022		pan macmillan pan books imprint p/b third printing bearing new cover design and new cover art (unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed; damn! i recognise that tentacled plant from someone's art pages - but whose?...) cover price 30p, (overseas territories prices) 320pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th May 2019		author (editor) field should^W has had '' and robert conquest'' deleted: two wholly different people not conjoined - not even slightly. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd May 2019		spectrum reprint anthology series #1: aka and originally ''spectrum'' (1961), q.v, #1: ''spectrum'' (1961) (this anthology) aka ''spectrum 1'' #2: ''spectrum II'' (1962), q.v. aka ''spectrum 2'' #3: ''spectrum III'' (1963), q.v. aka ''spectrum 3'' #4: ''spectrum IV'' (1965), q.v. aka ''spectrum 4'' #5: ''spectrum V'' (1966), q.v. aka ''spectrum 5'' (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th Nov 2017		pan books ltd. pan books imprint p/b first printing, not first p/b edition (first p/b edition was the berkley medallion 1963 mmpb) cover art unsigned, uncredited typographical on reddish orange splodge on yellowish orange background cover price 5/- low on fly corner of front cover°, 8/- australia, $1.25 new zealand on back cover ° - not all copies carry the uk price 320pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising there're two near-identical 1964 printings of this pan p/b edition: refer to the indica publishing history to distinguish between them by absence/presence of ''2nd printing, 1964'' (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Kingsley Amis - Spectrum 1 - Pan - Paperback - UK (1964)

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Kingsley Amis - Spectrum 1 - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330027115 (1971)