Jem
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Overview:
- Title: Jem
- Author: Frederik Pohl
- Year: 1979
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press / SFBC
- Price: $3.50
- Pages: 314
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Jem
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for September 1979.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Both given here are taken from the SFBC announcement flyer and Locus #226 (October 1979). The date is confirmed by a printing statement in the first Bantam paperback.
- The first SFBC printing has the gutter code "J20" on page 313 indicating a printing in May 1979.
- Known reprint codes: "J32" (August 1979), "K31" (August 1980 from an Abebooks.com listing), "M39" (September 1982 with the SFBC # on the back cover).
- "5603" printed at the bottom of the back flap of the dustjacket.
- "Jacket design by Irv Freeman" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- J20 printing has burgundy leatherette boards with silver lettering; J32 printing has burgundy leatherette boards with black lettering; M39 printing 1/4 bound in burgundy cloth with grey boards and orange lettering