cover art & b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (art credited, both signed with his monogram)
cover price 40¢
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
(the indicia cover art credit is accidentally retained in the next ace books editions/printings, cat# 19681 - 19683, which actually bear completely different, as-yet unattributed cover art°.)
(° - which reminds me of the dillons' work.)
lloyd currey (1979) notes that all u.s. editions of this novel lack a chapter.
william collins & sons grafton books imprint uk p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by john harris (credited on back cover)
cover price £3.99, $10.95 australia, $15.95 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art by peter elson (signed with his initials in a line-drawn box, uncredited)
cover price 75p, 82½p ireland, 80c malta, $2.50 australia, $2.50 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
° indicia publishing history gives sphere books p/b printings as 1970, reprinted 1973, 1977
rather than as 1970, reprinted 1974, 1977
i don't think this means that this is in fact the fourth, rather than the third sphere books printing. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)
sphere books p/b second printing
sphere science fiction classics series cover, classics series #10
cover art by eddie jones (signed, uncredited)
cover price 30p, 7/25s east africa, 1.00c australia, 1.00c new zealand (both in error for $1.00)
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
also gives 5/1970 date month, as well as year, of sphere books first printing in indicia publishing history (this comment is from another edition of this book)
victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, first thus
includes a further chapter not in the ace books, garland books or other examined merkin editions.
cover (d-j) art (none: classic black & magenta typography on gollancz yellow, with black zigzags)
cover (d-j) price 21/-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)
sphere books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition, first full p/b edition
follows victor gollancz h/cvr edition text in adding a final chapter not in the ace books etc. merkin editions
cover art by bill botten (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced on billbottenjackets.co.uk)
cover price 5/- (25p), 6/00s east africa, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand
160pp.including titles, indicia etc, end p. (this comment is from another edition of this book)