Sinister Barrier
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Overview:
- Title: Sinister Barrier
- Author: Eric Frank Russell
- Year: 1948
- Publisher: Fantasy Press
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: 253
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Sinister Barrier
- Notes:
- "First Edition" stated on copyright page although this is actually the first US edition.
- Cover artist credited on the title page, the front flap of the dustjacket and signature visible on cover.
- Issued in two states: 500 copies with a numbered leaf signed by the author inserted and a 3,500-copy trade edition. Both editions had the same dustjacket and price.
- Limitation page (on glossy paper) contains a version of the cover illustration and the statement "This first edition is limited to 4,000 copies of which 500 are numbered and autographed."
- "The Science-Fantasy Publishers, 3rd Edition" by Chalker & Owings (page 158) claims there were 3,084 copies (of which 500 had the signature sheet) plus an additional 834 "Greenberg variants" (Fantasy Press sheets bound by Martin Greenberg's Pick-A-Book operation).
- Follows the text of the original version printed in Unknown in March 1939. [Currey]. This does not agree with Chalker & Owings (see above) who claim that this edition was re-written by Russell at his insistence.
- This edition contains a new foreword by Russell dated January, 1948.
- Interior illustrations consist of full-page B&W plates on the frontispiece and pages 63, 139 and 232.