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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | near-identical first and second bantam books short mmpb printings, first being first p/b edition
cover art (unsigned, uncredited) (seen attributed to charles binger, but no source given)
cover price (none; almost all mmpbs were 25¢ for a decade)
indica gives first bantam edition published 4/1952, first printing 3/1952
check indica publishing history for statement of undated second printing
(date given as 6/1952 in thrid printing), to determine which you hold.
10/1954 bantam books third mmpb printing is in the taller pocketbook format (close to uk a format) and adds a band of red across the top above the same cover art; it was printed from the same typesetting:
cat# 1282
cover art by charles binger (presuming the attribution above is correct)
cover price 25¢
192pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising |
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OldMod67 17th Apr 2023
| | Rear cover pic added (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 11th Aug 2021
| | transworld publishers corgi books imprint fifth printing
first and only silver coloured background uniform design cover ray bradbury series printing
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, credited on back cover, also on his website)
cover price 4/- (25p), 50c south africa, 65c australia, 65c new zealand
192pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 5th Aug 2021
| | transworld publishers corgi books imprint sixth corgi p/b printing
first ''corgi sf collector's library'' design cover printing
on purpley-blue coloured textured card cover
cover art unsigned, uncredited, striking picture but sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.05 (check) new zealand
192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 24th Mar 2021
| | cover art by david wardle (designedbydavid.co.uk)
cover price £7.99
296pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
the short story, ''the veldt'', follows the eight earlier panther, granada & grafton printings in entitling it as ''the veld''... (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | bantam books mmpb now in the high thirties of printings, from cat# ~10551-5 with this cover price and
cover art by dean ellis (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | cover art by josh kirby now severely spherically cropped from previous corgi books printing, q.v.
cover price 3'6
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | two near-identical printings of this edition with same cat#, printing date, cover art and cover price;
consult indica to determine whether you hold bantam books' declared fourth or fifth printing
(the second and third printings of the new mmpb edition)
cover art by louis s. glanzman (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from illustration #19, summer 2007)
cover price 50¢
192pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
(it is possible that the carcass (''book'') of one of these two states in its printing history that it was printed in canada: should you find you hold such a copy, please post a comment here stating this, giving the wording from the printing history and also whether it is stated on the card cover where this was printed. thank-you. ppint.) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | first tall (normal uk, later "a format") format corgi p/b printing
cover art by josh kirby (collected in ''a cosmic cornucopia'' josh kirby (1999) q.v.)
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
two near-identical variants of this printing with same cat#, cover art exist: finished with either uk cover price of 3/- in box top left-hand corner of front cover, or 4/6 aust (for australian) in box. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | second corgi books printing/edition, new corgi books logo, cat# and cover price and typography, but retains short format and
cover art by john richards
cover price 2'6
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
this corgi edition indica's accounting of the merkin sister company, bantam books' mmpb publishing history is at least a little confused, prob'ly misinterpreting the distinction made between first published & first printing dates therein as two separate printings, and so creating a phantom third 1952 bantam mmpb printing, when only two occurred. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Jan 2018
| | cover art by john richards
cover price 2'-
192pp? including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
short format paperback, common in merkin mmpbs through 1966-7, but rare in uk p/bs outside early corgi & scottie books, and the first world distributors (manchester) wdl p/be & their earliest consul p/bs. (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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