The Space Merchants

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Overview:

Title: The Space Merchants
Author: C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
Year: 1953
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Price: $1.50
Pages: 179
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Space Merchants
Notes:
- Cover artist credited on copyright page.
- Date of publication from printing history provided in the 1960 third printing which states:
  FIRST PRINTING--April, 1953
  Published--May, 1953
- Catalog number from Carl Bennett's Ballantine Checklist (The Science Fiction Collector 6, May 1978).
- Catalog number mis-printed as "H 2" on front flap of dustjacket.