Twice Twenty-two
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Overview:
- Title: Twice Twenty-two
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Year: 1966
- Publisher: Doubleday / SFBC
- Price: $1.90
- Pages: 406
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: A Medicine for Melancholy
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for March 1966.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Both are taken from Tuck.
- "2696" printed at the bottom on the back flap of the dustjacket. This is only present on later printings. The first book club printing did not have an ID number.
- First printing has gutter code "01H" [verified] on page 405, indicates a printing in January 1966.
- Known reprint codes: "06H" (February 1966)[PV7], "20M" (May 1971) on page 389, "42Q" (October 1974) [PV1], "M39" (September 1982, with no year on title page)[PV7].
- "Jacket by Joseph Mugnaini" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- This omnibus reprints the complete contents (in the same order) of The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) and A Medicine for Melancholy (1959). This fact is stated on the front jacket, the spine of the book, and on the title page.
- The title of each collection is printed as the running title at the top of even-numbered pages.
- Each collection has its own dedication. There is no dedication for the entire book.
- There are frontispieces by Joseph Mugnaini at the beginning of each of the two collections.
- Pagination continues from one collection to the next, with the tables of content back to back on an unpaginated page at the front of the collection. The Golden Apples of the Sun runs on pages 1-209, and A Medicine for Melancholy runs on pages 210-406.
- The dustjacket (both front cover and spine) and spine of the book itself show the title as Twice 22. Only the title page gives the title as Twice Twenty-two.