daw books near-identical mmpb first printings, first p/b edition, sharing merkin-printed covers, and also cat#,
cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his jg monogram)
near-meaningless daw books collectors number 52
cover price 95¢
192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be, both bear first printing april, 1973, number-string 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
half new english library (by now owned by hodder & stoughton, but both halves of this still state times mirror on title pp. etc.) undated° ''double'' p/b with single front cover
doubled with ''monument'' lloyd biggle, jr. (1974), q.v.
dedication: for elizabeth a. h. green, who will understand the substitution for the violin concerto once rashly promised
cover art (reductions of art by colin andrew from 2/1980 new english library p/b overlapped by art by tim white from ''monument'' lloyd biggle (8/1975 & ff.), lain in perspective view upon a monochromatic (black +) red colour reduction of the part of this latter originally used on the back cover)
cover price £1.25 (no other prices)
sbn 450 04553 6 internally in this novel's indicia publishing history, further stating
first nel paperback edition february 1980
new english library / times mirror
414pp. including titles, indicia°° etc, with n.b. each novel separately paginated:
''the light that never was'' 240pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia°° etc, no end pp;
''monument'' 174pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia, sbn etc, no additional end pp.
° - assigned date obtained by interpolation into the rising isbns, cat#s assigned to new english library p/bs of known publication month and year date
°° - indicia publishing history data of both refer to them as the february 1980 printings, indicating that this double is an omnibus bind-up probably of unsold, previously unbound signatures of the 2/1980 new english library p/b printings of the separate novels, or from a hurried kludge of a production reprinting both as quickly as possible to help provide urgently-needed additional cash-flow.
(whilst it could in theory have been a rebound omnibus made up of stripped or partially-stripped unsold copies/whole copy returns of the single novels, the double p/b's binding shows no sign of this having occurred.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
times mirror (or only just sold to hodder & stoughton?) new english library p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by colin andrew (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 95p (overseas territories prices?)
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
a morley book published by the elmfield press h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by josh kirby (may be signed, check; credited for book d-j design)
cover (d-j) price (none, publisher's price gun label (£check - if it's still there))
240pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)