cover (dust-jacket) art by richard powers (attribution "the art of richard powers" jane frank, q.v.)
cover (dust-jacket) price $2.95
284pp? plus endpapers, bound between boards, distributed in paper dust-jacket
(publication month from the whole sf data base 7)
reprinted by harcourt, brace & world 1962, retaining d-j art.
first printing to bear a cat# in the ace books five-digit system, last to bear the long-retained cover art from the ace double first mmpb printing. (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from previous printings, attributed to harry barton
cover price 60¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
° - date taken from andre-norton.com which gives this as fifth printing, incorrectly (this comment is from another edition of this book)
ace books undated° mmpb fifth printing, revised cover design retained from third & fourth printings
cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from earlier printings, attributed to harry barton
cover price 45¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
° - tuck gives 1967, but this printing places in 1966 in the sequence of ace books cat#s (this comment is from another edition of this book)
ace books mmpb undated° third printing, cover design changed, shrinking
cover art attributed to harry barton retained from previous printings
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
° - date entered in field above presumably taken from donald h. tuck fits into cat# sequence known dates (this comment is from another edition of this book)
ace books mmpb undated° fourth printing, cat# & cover price changed in design from third printing
cover art retained from previous printings attributed to harry barton in ace image library
cover price 40¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
° - date entered in field above presumably taken from donald h. tuck (this comment is from another edition of this book)
ace books undated° second mmpb printing, first solo p/b edition
cover art retained from half ace double format mmpb first p/b printing, unsigned, uncredited attributed to harry barton in ace image library
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
° - publication date assigned in field may've been taken from ''double your pleasure'' james corrick; it cannot've been before the ace double or after the 1962 next ace books double format mmpb
andre-norton.com lists this as cat# D-096, but this is incorrect: the cat# borne is D-96 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
half ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers and contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by harry barton (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from the ace image library)
cover price 35¢
½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indica etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with ''a man obsessed'' alan e. nourse (1955), q.v. (expanded: ''the mercy men'' (1968 & ff.), q.v.)
andre-norton.com lists this as cat# D-096 but this is incorrect; the cat# borne is D-96 (this comment is from another edition of this book)