Flowers for Algernon

Overview:

  • Title: Flowers for Algernon
  • Author: Daniel Keyes
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9781407230030
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: 216
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Flowers for Algernon
  • Notes:
    Stated 4th printing of the 2002 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • Gollancz colophon.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © Daniel Keyes 1966, 1994"
    • "First published in Great Britain in 2000 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Victor Gollancz [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9EA"
    • "This edition published in Great Britain in 2002 by Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group"
    • Number line: "4"
    • "Printed in Great Britain by [over] Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    • No ISBN.
    Spine:
    • "SF Masterworks", "Flowers For Algernon" in black; "Daniel Keyes" in blue, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Back cover:
    • "UK £7.99" (no additional pricing)
    • "Based on illustration by Chris Moore/ Artist Partners" (no visible signature on the artwork)
    Page 1 is numbered. Semi-gloss cover.

    Gollancz produced two slightly different covers for this Masterworks II edition, changing sometime between this 4th printing and the 16th (for example). They differ in two lettering aspects; on the spine and on the front cover: Here, on the spine, the "Daniel Keyes" text is 51 mm long (60 mm in the 16th and later printings 28th and 29th), and "Flowers For Algernon" is 60 mm long (66 mm on later printings). Here, on the front cover, the beginning of the letter 'W' at the start of the text line "Winner of the Hugo Award and" is under the 'S' in "Flowers". In later printings the line has been shrunk, measuring 53.5 mm, so that the start of the letter 'W' falls between the first two words of the title. The text "The Nebula Award" has also been shrunk proportionally.