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Author:	Isaac Asimov
Title:	The Gods Themselves
Publisher:	Doubleday
Country:	USA
Date:	May 1972
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	8
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published by doubleday and company, inc.

near-identical editions/printings sharing
dust-jacket typographical design "cover art" by david november

cover (dust-jacket) price: $5.95; (no price printed on 6/72 doubleday sf book club dj iirc, but sometimes the corner is clipped to disguise this; for sale to club members only: $1.98)
the first edition indica also states first edition.
288pp bound between boards

eccentric magazine serialization in over three issues of two magazines due to time pressure on ejler jakobsson-editor's main two upd magazine's publishing schedules:
#1/3 in the then bi-monthly galaxy 3/1972;
#2/3 in the also bi-monthly if 4/1972;
#3/3 back in the bi-monthly galaxy 5/1972 (galaxy {bre} no.1)
(there were complaints about this at the time, as if was less-commonly stocked by merkin newsstands; but subscribers to only one were allowed to opt for receiving issues of the other as part of their subscriptions both in advance of the magazines' publication dates, and in retrospect.)

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ppint. 2nd Aug 2023		granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box may be visible, uncredited) front cover bears sbn: 586 03772 1 horizontally in lower corner near spine cover price 40p, $1.35 australia & new zealand, $1.50 canada 256pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month not given: entered to place this after the readers union science fiction book club h/cvr; this month may need to be varied if a firm date is found in the publisher's catalogues et sim. bears red flash diagonally across bottom fly corner stating his nebula award-winning new novel refer inter alia to indicia publishing history to distinguish between this and various near-identical reprintings: 1974 second printing 1975 third printing which differs: cover bears a red pinked-edge roundel stating winner of the hugo and nebula awards for the year's best sf novel cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada 1976 fourth printing which differs from third: cover price 60p, $1.95 australia, $1.95 new zealand, $1.95 canada 1978 fifth printing which differs from fourth: cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box may be visible, now credited) cover price 80p, $2.30 australia, $2.45 new zealand, $2.50 canada 1979 sixth printing 1981 seventh printing 1982 eighth printing which differs from fifth: all red flashes/roundels now gone from front cover cover price £1.50, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand 1985 ninth printing which differs from eighth: sbn now gone from front cover cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jul 2023		j. m. dent & sons readers union the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited) cover (d-j) price 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards cat# 1075 renumbered 5075 c.12/1972-1/1973 after david & charles' purchase of the readers union group of book clubs, including remaining stocks, from j. m. dent & sons. greg pickersgill reports that both these cat# sequences were used for internal purposes, and upon/in leaflets/flyers advertising the clubs' monthly choices, specials etc. iirc, they were also used in advertisements' and upon order forms. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jul 2023		fawcett publications fawcett crest imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art by charles moll (signed cm, but this guillotined off many copies, uncredited) cover price $1.25 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state june 1973 and also to distinguish from near-identical undated unspecified reprintings which differ: (? possible reprints with no visible external difference?) (these would be the earliest reprints) ... ... undated (except for 1973 first mmpb date) near-identical next known printings after the above, differ: cat# Q2460 cover price $1.50 likely 1975 from interpolation of cat#s and cover price of fawcett crest mmpbs of similar extent ... ... cat# X2883 cover price $1.75 (first half of 1976 by interpolation of cat#s and comparison of cover prices of crest mmpbs of this extent) (cat# (?price-code letter?)3756 (cover price $1.95 (?any printings bearing this cat# & cover price, but without nine digit sbn or ten digit isbn ?) cat# first issued c. 11-12/1978; an isbn might've appeared printed only in the indicia initially ... ... ... ... undated 19th printing by indicia publishing history printing number line 27---19 cat# 3756 isbn 0-449-2-3756-7 cover price $1.95 undated 20th printing by indicia publishing history printing number line 27---20 elsewise identical ... ... 1982 24th printing by number line also bears isbn 0-449-2-7536-7 incorporating cat#, $2.50 cover price by november 1984 random house group had taken over fawcett publications from cbs, and the first ballantine books del rey series mmpb edition was an 11/1984 publication, cover art by barclay shaw, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jul 2023		victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art: none, typographical in black and magenta, black escutcheon sf logo top left, on ''gollancz yellow'' field cover (d-j) price £(not visible on library copy) 288pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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