Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction

Overview:

• Title: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
• Author: David Wingrove, Brian W. Aldiss
• Year: 1986
• ISBN-10: 0689118392
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Price: $24.95
• Pages: 511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
• Notes:
  • Stated "First American Edition"
  • No date other than year. Publication date from Locus1.
  • No number line
  • No price on Primary verifier's copy (frequent price location on top right of front inside dust jacket flap has been cut off). Price from Library of Congress catalog record; also on front flap of Archive.org copy.
  • Cover photograph credit per front inside dust jacket flap
  • Cover design by Mike Stromberg per front inside dust jacket flap
  • Cover has only Aldiss' name, but title page credits Aldiss and Wingrove.
  • Introduction is credited per closing signature. It is listed separately as credited to Aldiss only.
  • There are 8 unnumbered pages of photographs printed on slick paper bound between pages 160 and 161, and another 8 between pages 352 and 353. Only artwork specific to written speculative fiction has been listed. Artwork in these sections is numbered as [last page + count] (ex. [160+2] would be the second one in the set between pages 160 and 161).
  • Artwork is titled per the List of Illustrations (p. 9) as on actual page, artwork does not have a title, but rather a descriptive paragraph.
  • "Cover of Edward S. Ellis's The Huge Hunter" is the cover of an unknown edition of "The Steam Man of the Prairies" (titled as "The Huge Hunter; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies")