New Writings in SF2

Overview:

  • Title: New Writings in SF2
  • Author: John Carnell
  • Year: 1966
  • Publisher: Bantam Books
  • Price: C$0.50
  • Pages: [8]+150
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: A Round Billiard Table
  • Notes:
    Dated Canadian 1st printing of this 1966 edition. Title page:
    • "New Writings in [over] SF2 [over] edited by John Carnell"
    • Bantam colophon.
    Copyright page:
    • "New Writings in SF2"
    • "A Bantam Book"
    • "Printing History"
    • "Originally published in Great Britain [over] by Dobson Books, Ltd., 1964"
    • "Corgi edition published 1965"
    • "Bantam edition published October 1966"
    • " "Hell-Planet": Copyright © 1964 by John Rackham. "The Night- [over] Flame": Copyright © 1964 by Colin Kapp. "The Creators": Copy- [over] right © 1964 by Joseph Green. "Rogue Leonardo": Copyright © [over] 1964 by G. L. Lack. "Maiden Voyage": Copyright © 1964 by John [over] Rankine. "Odd Boy Out": Copyright © 1961 by Bruce Royal Pub- [over] lishing Corp., Connecticut, U.S.A., for ESCAPADE magazine; re- [over] printed by permission of the author. "The Eternal Machines": [over] Copyright © 1964 by William Spencer. "A Round Billiard Table": [over] Copyright © 1964 by Steve Hall."
    • "Copyright © 1964 by John Carnell."
    • "Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada"
    • "Bantam Books are published in Canada by Bantam Books [over] of Canada, Ltd., [...]."
    • "Printed in Canada"
    • "Bantam Books of Canada Ltd."
    • "156 Front Street West, Toronto 1, Canada"
    • No number line.
    Front cover:
    • "F3379 * 50c * A Bantam Fifty"
    • No signatures on the artwork.
    Spine:
    • "F3379 [over] 9 [over] 50c" (9 being the last digit of the catalogue #, not a series number)
    • "New Writings in SF2"
    Back cover: First numbered page is page 1. ToC, on unnumbered page [5], states the page numbers which are the titling, one-paragraph editorial introduction, and start of each story. Whereas the Foreword pages are unnumbered, ToC states start as page vii, being a count from the very first page of the book. Foreword is titled "foreword", and is signed, on page [8], "John Carnell [over] August 1964". Last story finishes on the last numbered page, 150. Bottom of unnumbered page [152]: "Cover printed in U.S.A.". Gloss cover.