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Author:	James White
Title:	The Secret Visitors
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1957
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	D-237
Total Editions:	5
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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An Ace Double, paired with Master Of Life And Death by Robert Silverberg.
156 pages (320 pages total). 35-cent cover price.

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ppint. 31st Mar 2024		ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet not authoritatively attributed sfaik) cover price 35¢ ½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc., advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with "master of life and death" robert silverberg (1957), q.v.



annaloog ● 24th Jul 2024		Thanks, that confirms my conclusion. I have combined the two entries. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 22nd Jul 2024		this would appear to be the same printing as that bookcat item contributed by davie gordon; i do not know of a near-identical (to the second) third ace books mmpb printing, nor indeed of any further ace books printing/edition. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



annaloog ● 21st Jul 2024		? Same edition as Ace G-675? (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Mar 2024		serialised in new worlds #52, 53, 54; 10, 11, 12/1956 as "tourist planet"; don wollheim reportedly required the additional all-on space battle that appears in the ace books first edition and is retained in all further english language book publications of which i know. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Jul 2019		times mirror new english library nel imprint first printing (not first uk p/b, was digit books (1961)) cover art uncredited, unsigned (has some distinct similarities to known josh kirby covers but this is not yet an attribution; it also has similarities with some of tim white's work, though it's three years too early to be by him) cover price 25p (5/-), pts 65 spain, 80c australia, 80c new zealand 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp: 2 pp. advertising, 1 blank (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 28th Apr 2019		brown, watson digit books imprint second edition/printing bearing new cover art unsigned, uncredited, still sfaik unattributed cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Mar 2019		ace books mmpb undated° second printing, with new cover art by bob schinella (unsigned, credited to schinella on the back cover, fuller attribution ace image library) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc., end pp. advertising number-string on spine, 020-07675-050, is not an sbn or isbn of any variety. it may be the abn. ° assigned year date taken from donald h. tuck is consistent with that of others with closely propinquant catalogue numbers (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Nov 2017		brown, watson digit books imprint first printing, first uk edition cover art by ed emshwiller re-used from that painted by him for ace books, inc., on ace D-358 mmpb of "recruit for andromeda" by milton lesser (1959), q.v. cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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James White - The Secret Visitors - Ace - Paperback - USA (1967)

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James White - The Secret Visitors - Digit - Paperback - UK (1961)

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James White - The Secret Visitors - Digit - Paperback - UK (1963)

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James White - The Secret Visitors - New English Library - Paperback - UK - 450006662 (1971)