Flowers for Algernon

Overview:

  • Title: Flowers for Algernon
  • Author: Daniel Keyes
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9781857989380
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: 216
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Flowers for Algernon
  • Notes:
    Stated 16th 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: "17 19 20 18 16"
    • "ISBN 978 1 85798 938 0"
    • "Printed in Great Britain by [over] Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    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 the 4th and this 16th printing. Here, on the spine, the "Daniel Keyes" text is 60 mm long, and "Flowers For Algernon" is 66 mm long. Here, on the front cover, the beginning of the letter 'W' at the start of the text line "Winner of the Hugo Award and" falls between the first two words of the title and the text measures 53.5 mm.