The Space Merchants

Overview:

  • Title: The Space Merchants
  • Author: C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
  • Year: 1974
  • ISBN-10: 0345242904
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Price: C$1.50
  • Pages: 158
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Space Merchants
  • Notes:
    • Printing History:
      First Printing: May, 1953
      Second Printing: June, 1953
      Third Printing: March, 1960
      Fourth Printing: February, 1965
      Fifth Printing: March, 1968
      Sixth Printing: July, 1969
      Seventh Printing: May, 1972
    • No number line
    • Actually the eighth printing, simultaneous with the US eighth but without the interior/text being updated [ads in the back still have books with 95¢ pricing]
    • The cover art is different from the seventh printing [a Berkey cover] and has the signature of Robert Grossman
    • Cover printed in the US, book in Canada
    • OCLC has no record for the ISBN and the only record for an eighth printing has 1972 and an incorrect page count, the only 1974 record also has an incorrect page count with no printing identified