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Editor:Frederik Pohl
Title:The Eighth Galaxy Reader
Publisher:  Victor Gollancz
Country:UK
Date:1965
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:3
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eighth reprint anthology in the series, "the #th galaxy reader", of stories from galaxy magazine.

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ppint.
14th May 2020
 first uk edition; first edition was doubleday h/cvr (u.s. 1965), q.v.
aka "final encounter" curtis books mmpb (1970), q.v.

cover (d-j) art typographical on ''gollancz yellow'' paper, title, figure "12" in magenta, else in black
cover (d-j) price 18/-
248pp. bound with end-papers between red cloth-covered boards

contents:
varieties of the science-fiction experience (introduction, nf) frederik pohl
comic inferno (novelelette) brian w. aldiss (vol.21 #3, 2/1963)
the big engine (short story) fritz leiber (vol.20 #3, 2/1962)
a day on death highway (ntte) h. chandler elliott (vol.22 #1, 10/1963)
the end of the race (ss) albert bermel (vol.22 #4, 4/1964)
the lonely man (ntte) theodore l. thomas (vol.21 #4, 4/1963)
a bad day for vermin (ss) keith laumer (vol.22 #3, 2/1964)
dawningsburgh (ss) wallace west (vol.20 #5, 6/1962 (thorpe+porter bre #92)
and all the earth a grave (ss) c. c. macapp (vol.22 #2, 12/1963)
hot planet (ss) hal clement (vol.21 #6, 8/1963; cover story, art by jon pederson, 4 b+w by virgil finlay)
final encounter (ss) harry harrison (vol.22 #4, 4/1964; cover story, art by dember, 1 b+w by nodel)
if there were no benny cemoli (ntte) philip k. dick (vol.22 #2, 12/1963)
critical mass (ntte) c. m. kornbluth, frederik pohl (vol.20 #3, 2/1962)
 

 
ppint.
27th Apr 2023
 author field should^W has been varied to editor
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
27th Apr 2023
 pan books ltd. first p/b printing, first p/b edition

reprint anthology of five novelettes and seven short stories, nf introduction by frederik pohl
see the victor gollancz h/cvr edition for the contents in detail

cover art unsigned, uncredited (treated photographic, restricted to small disc in orange field)
cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 

 
ppint.
12th May 2020
 reprint anthology aka and originally "the eighth galaxy reader" doubleday h/cvr (1965), q.v.
first uk edition victor gollancz h/cvr (1965), q.v., including for contents listing.

first mmpb edition, not first p/b edition (was pan books uk p/b (1968), q.v.)

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 75¢
nor publication nor copyright dates of anthology given in indica publishing history
copyright data for individual stories is given
224pp. including titles, indicia etc.

cover number-string incorporating cat#, price in three digits appended, may be this edition's abn.

publication date from "index to science fiction anthologies and collections" william contento (1978)
(this comment is from another edition of this book)
 


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Frederik Pohl - Final Encounter - Curtis Books - Paperback - USA (1970)
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Frederik Pohl - The Eighth Galaxy Reader - Pan - Paperback - UK (1968)

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