New Writings in SF 9

Overview:

  • Title: New Writings in SF 9
  • Author: John Carnell
  • Year: 1972
  • ISBN-10: 0553072455
  • Publisher: Bantam Books
  • Price: $0.75
  • Pages: x+180
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Last Time Around
  • Notes:
    Dated U.S.A. 1st printing of this 1972 edition. Title page:
    • "New Writings in SF 9 [over] Edited by John Carnell"
    • Bantam colophon.
    • "A National General Company"
    Copyright page:
    • "RLI:"
    • "VLM 8(VLR 6-9) [over] IL 8-up"
    • "New Writings in SF 9"
    • "A Bantam Book / published May 1972"
    • "The Last Time Around; Testament; The Macbeth Expiation; The [over] City, Dying; Copyright © 1968 by John Carnell."
    • "If You're So Smart; Tilt Angle; Symbiote; When I Have Passed [over] Away; Copyright © 1969 by [over] John Carnell."
    • "Copyright © 1972 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:
    • "S7245 * 75c" "A Bantam Book"
    • szafran is on the artwork.
    Spine:
    • "75c", "New Writings in SF 9", "553 07245 075". (ISBN-10 derived from this partial SBN)
    Back cover:
    • No artwork.
    • No other pricing. No artist credit stated.
    Though the title is similar to the Dobson and Corgi editions not one story is the same. P111 story is from New Writings in S-F 12; pps. 71, 89, 157 from S-F 13; pps. 55, 135 from S-F 14; pps. 3, 36 from S-F 15. The Foreword is specific to this edition. First numbered page is page ix. ToC, on unnumbered page vii, states the page numbers of the half-title pages for each story; respectively pps. 1, 33, 53, 69, 87, 109,133, 155. The story texts start on pages as below. ToC states the Foreword start correctly as page ix. Foreword is signed, on page x "June 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, 180. Gloss cover.