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Editor: Judith Merril Title: The Best Of Sci-Fi Publisher:   Mayflower Country: UK Date: 1963 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Cat#: 0543-8 First Published:   1961 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Compilation of 30+ stories (incl. 2 cartoons and 2 comic strips), edited and with an Introduction by Judith Merril
© 1961 by Judith Merrill
First publication in Great Britain
Published as a Mayflower Paperback, 1963
384 pp.
cover illustration: (not credited)
cover price 5/-

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ppint. 14th Oct 2022		mayflower books ltd. was set up by dell publishing, inc. (or some part thereof) as a wholly-owned uk subsidiary in 1962. it was not consistent in whether it badged its books as mayflower or mayflower dell (usually no hyphen on covers, separation of the two words by the mayflower logo-let in the logo iyswim) - sometimes being inconsistent in different places in the same printings of its books. bookcat currently recognises mayflower books ltd.'s mayflower and mayflower-dell (with hyphen) imprints as separate ''publishers''. bookcat practice is to identify separate imprints as separate publishers. i have no idea what - if anything - the terminal ''- 8'' added to (some) mayflower and mayflower dell imprint books indicated. i have attempted to discern a logical pattern, on more than one occasion, but have given up. i'm not sure it meant anything in particular. not all of mayflower books ltd.'s listings of (selections of) their books with their cat#s match the actual cat#s on the books as to whether they carry terminal ''-8''s. dell publishing, inc. (or whatever the merkin holding company by then was) sold mayflower books ltd. to the uk granada conglomerate in 1967, which eventually included it in granada publishing - this changed in precise name from time to time too - after which its history becomes that of the granada publishing group, though for quite a while the imprint seems to've been maintained as a separate, though wholly-owned, limited liability company. not very much that corporate publishers do makes very much sense to most of the people employed by the publishers - let alone, people outside them attempting to work with them.
annaloog ● 14th Oct 2022		Quote: cat# is wrong and should be corrected to 0543-8 That's an "8"? I looked at it three ways, with progressive levels of magnification, and the suffix still looks more like a "B". The "Mayflower-Dell" titles I looked at before creating this entry show as "Mayflower" ... presumably an arrangement with USA publisher Dell (or parent Delacorte), as the latter has a "Mayflower" imprint.
ppint. 13th Oct 2022		publisher should be corrected to mayflower-dell as bookcat goes by the imprint, rather than the owning publisher, where the two differ. even where this doesn't appear to be spectacularly sensible.
ppint. 13th Oct 2022		cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 0543-8
ppint. 13th Oct 2022		mayflower books mayflower-dell imprint p/b first printing or near-identical second printing reprint anthology, #6 in judith merril's best of the year annual series rather confusingly denumbered and retitled by mayflower books ltd. cat# 0543-8 cover art by john van zwienen (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from ''the sixth annual of the year's best sf'' dell mmpb (1962), where it is credited on the back cover) cover price 5/- 384pp. (check) including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc., end pp.

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