The Joy Makers

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Overview:

Title: The Joy Makers
Author: James Gunn
Year: 1961
Publisher: Bantam Books
Price: $0.35
Pages: 160
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Joy Makers
Notes:
• "A Bantam Book / published March 1961" • No statement of printing, no number line. • The artist is not credited; Hofmann is on the cover. • Author is James Gunn on the cover, spine and title page, no "E." • Copyright page acknowledges three previously printed stories, but the books just has three Parts, no other titles. • Contento1 lists this as a collection • Signature "Hofmann" is the same signature as on the 1969 cover of Earth Abides; that book identified the artist as William Hofmann.