Doomed Nation of the Skies!

Overview:

  • Title: Doomed Nation of the Skies!
  • Author: Steve Future
  • Year: 1953
  • Publisher: Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library
  • Price: -/9
  • Pages: 64
  • Binding: digest
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Doomed Nation of the Skies!
  • Notes:
    • No copyright page. Title is placed at top of page 1 with "by Steve Future" below it. [This Publication Record]. Novel starts immediately after.
    • No printing date, printing, printing number line, catalog number or edition in/on book.
    • No copyright data in book.
    • Print font of novel is very small. Probably double or triple the word count for similar period publications.
    • Inside covers and back cover are full page advertisements.
    • Title is without ! after Skies on front cover and spine.
    • Cover artist not credited in/on book. However the cover has been shown and attributed to Ron Turner here [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5792/RonTurnerGalley.htm].
    • Price located near top right front cover (large type). Also running down bottom spine (small type).
    • "Tit-Bits (over) Science Fiction (over) Library" in irregular rectangle at bottom right front cover.
    • 'Titbits' Science Fiction Library running downwards at top spine.
    • Pearson running downwards at very bottom spine.
    • At very bottom inside back cover is this statement: "Printed and bound in England, by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, for the Publishers C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street, London, W.C.2" (number is one-third the size of lettering). Though this statement is below an "APAL" advertisement, it appears to be for the novel printing, not the advertisement.
    • This item is of digest size with two staples stapled through pages one through 64 (actual count)(front to back not center page). The book and cover was crimped to one-quarter inch down spine length and glued onto binding.
    • Adds: synopsis, printing month. Questions if the author is actually Steve Gilroy. Information on page 56, Harbottle/Holland.
    • Tuck III, pg. 651, bot. rt. col., states Pearson, T-B, 1953, 64 pages, 9d.