Strange Worlds
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Overview:
- Title: Strange Worlds
- Author: Ralph Milne Farley
- Year: 1952
- Publisher: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: 134+177
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Radio Man
- Notes:
- Currey, Clute and Reginald1 have the year of publication as 1953, Tuck and Contento1 as 1952.
- Tuck, Reginald1 and Currey all give 311 as the page count.
- This book is an omnibus of 2 earlier books, binding together the 134 pages of Farley's 1950 collection 'Hidden Universe' followed by the 177 pages of Farley's 1948 novel 'Radio Man'. Each of the included books includes its original half-title, title, copyright, and table of contents pages, plus original page numbering. There is no title page or copyright page for the omnibus itself.
- The spine of book has 'Farley', 'Strange Worlds', and 'F.P.C.I.' stamped in silver. The dust jacket blurb on front flap starts, 'This entertaining volume contains two complete novels by the author of The Omnibus of Time.'
- 'Jacket design by Walter' at bottom of front flap of dust jacket.
- Pages were left over from binding of originals and selected to bind together because these titles were printed the same size according to "Son of Daddy!" by Jack L. Chalker in Fantasy Newsletter No. 62, September 1983.
- Chalker also reports that 300 copies were bound, that the cover artist was Crozetti, that there were 311 pages and that publication was in 1953.