Greybeard

Overview:

• Title: Greybeard
• Author: Brian W. Aldiss
• Year: 1964
• ISBN-10:
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
• Price: $4.50
• Pages: 245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Greybeard
• Notes:
  • On copyright page:
    • © 1964 by Brian W. Aldiss
    • first edition
    • Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-18276
  • Publication year not explicitly stated in book
  • Year from Currey and Tuck
  • Full date "12Aug64" from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: 1964: July-December, ref: A712340
  • Author's website states: "FIRST EDITION: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964"
  • "Jacket design by James and Ruth McCrea" on rear dust jacket flap
  • This edition is abridged in comparison with some later editions. Clute/Nicholls states: "Greybeard (cut 1964 US; full version 1964 UK)"
  • The chapter structure is:
    • 1 The River: Sparcot
    • 2 Cowley
    • 3 The River: Swifford Fair
    • 4 Washington
    • 5 The River: Oxford
    • 6 The River: The End
  • Some later editions, eg: 1972 Panther pb have an additional chapter titled "London" located between chapters 5 and 6 of this Harcourt edition. This chapter is a flashback, so the narrative in this edition flows seamlessly from chapter 5 to 6
  • The chapter "London" contains approximately 9000 words.