Greybeard

Overview:

• Title: Greybeard
• Author: Brian W. Aldiss
• Year: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0586024603
• Publisher: Panther / Granada
• Price: £1.95
• Pages: 272
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Greybeard
• Notes:
  • Only "Aldiss" on front cover, "Brian Aldiss" on spine, but "Brian W. Aldiss" on title page.
  • On copyright page:
    • Published by Panther 1968
    • Reprinted 1972, 1974, 1984 (twice)
    • Copyright © Brian W. Aldiss 1964, 1984
  • Publisher is stated as:
    • "Granada" on spine
    • "Panther" (over) "Granada Publishing" on title page
    • "Panther Books" (over) "Granada Publishing Ltd" on copyright page
  • Cover artist credited on rear cover
  • Other price: NZ $6.95
  • This edition contains an expanded version of the text. Compare with the abridged 1964 Harcourt hc
  • The chapter structure is:
    • 1 The River: Sparcot
    • 2 Cowley
    • 3 The River: Swifford Fair
    • 4 Washington
    • 5 The River: Oxford
    • 6 London
    • 7 The River: The End
  • The Harcourt edition does not contain chapter 6 "London". This additional chapter contains approximately 9000 words
  • This publication contains further textual revisions compared with some previous editions, eg: 1972 Panther pb. These take the form of minor re-wordings or occasional additions / deletions of sentences. There do not appear to be any substantial changes to the structure or essence of the story
  • In tandem with these revisions, a fair number of spelling errors have been introduced throughout the text
  • There is no explicit statement in the book regarding these further textual revisions but the second copyright year (1984) stated on the copyright page suggests that either this publication or the earlier 1984 printing is the first to contain these revisions