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Author:	Brian N. Ball
Title:	Timepiece
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Apr 1970
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	01903-2
Total Editions:	3
First Published:	1968
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Ballantine Science Fiction Original
First American edition, Apr 1970
SBN 345-01903-2-075
Cover artist: Mort Engle
Cover price 75c

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Brian N. Ball - Timepiece - Dennis Dobson - Hardcover - UK (1968)

Comments and Reviews


ppint. 13th Aug 2024		the statement - or claim - that the ballantine mmpb is/was an original is (and was) at least debatable.



ppint. 13th Aug 2024		the three-digit last element of the number string stated to be the american sbn is the cover price in cents; it is not in fact part of the book's sbn, as the standard book number is/was defined as a nine digit number, the first element of which identifies the publisher, the second element identified the book title in that publisher's then-current catalogue (which allows for eventual re-used of any particular sbn), and the final digit is the checksum digit calculated from the first eight digits allowing errors to be detected (and, if this was the most common error, that of the accidental swapping of two adjacent digits, allowing this to be identified and corrected by a human being or, later, a computer program routine). possibly because of the way the failing rival - and incompatible - abn (american book number) system, which does not seem ever to have made use of a checksum digit, had been used, different merkin mmpb publishers committed a variety of more(-or-less) catastrophically non-compliant variations when they began to adopt the sbn (standard book number) system, up to and including creating fake, and usually - almost inevitably - non-checksum-digit-system-compliant - "isbn"s. the standard book number system was later extended to become the international standard book number system by prepending (or deeming to have been prepended) the digit zero, 0, to all current sbn system numbers; being arithmetically equivalent to these isbn ("isbn10" on bookcat) numbers, 9-digit sbn system numbers may be treated identically by number-crunchers human, mechanical, electrical and electronic. the much later isbn13 system is not backwards-compatible with the sbn/isbn10 system.



ppint. 13th Aug 2024		intext publishing group ballantine books imprint mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by mort engel (unsigned, credited as by mort engle; full first name seems to've been morton) cat# 01903 sbn 345-01903-2 cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first american edition: april, 1970 refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first american edition: april, 1970