New Writings in SF 8

Overview:

  • Title: New Writings in SF 8
  • Author: John Carnell
  • Year: 1971
  • ISBN-10: 0553069160
  • Publisher: Bantam Books
  • Price: $0.75
  • Pages: viii+184
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Apple
  • Notes:
    Dated U.S.A. 1st printing of this 1971 edition. Title page:
    • "New Writings in SF 8 [over] Edited by John Carnell"
    • Bantam colophon.
    • "A National General Company"
    Copyright page:
    • Dedication to Groff Conklin 1904-1978.
    • "RLI:"
    • "VLM 8(VLR 6-9) [over] IL 8-up"
    • "New Writings in SF 8"
    • "A Bantam Book / published December 1971"
    • "The Imagination Trap; Apple; Birth of a Butterfly; Robot's Dozen; [over] copyright © 1967 by John Carnell."
    • "The Wall to End the World; Dead to the World; Shock Treatment; [over] Visions of Monad; They Shall Reap; copyright © 1968 by [over] John Carnell."
    • "Copyright © 1971 by John Carnell."
    • "Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada"
    • "Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc., a National [over] General company. [...] Bantam Books, Inc., 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019."
    • "Printed in the United States of America"
    • No number line.
    Front cover:
    • "S6916 * 75c" "A Bantam Book"
    • Artist's faint signature visible on the artwork.
    Spine:
    • "75c", "New Writings in SF 8", "553 · 06916 · 075". (ISBN-10 derived from this partial SBN)
    Back cover:
    • Reproduction of front cover artwork.
    • No other pricing. No artist credit stated.
    First numbered page is page vii. ToC, on unnumbered page v, states the page numbers of the half-title pages for each story; respectively pps. 1, 47, 61, 71, 87, 107, 125, 143, 159. The story texts start on pages as below. ToC states the Foreword start correctly as page vii. Foreword is signed, on page viii "1971", "John Carnell". There are one-paragraph editorial introductions to each story beneath the half-page titling. Last story finishes on the last numbered page, 184. Gloss cover.