Who Goes There?

Overview:

  • Title: Who Goes There?
  • Author: John W. Campbell, Jr.
  • Year: 1951
  • Publisher: Shasta
  • Price: $3.00
  • Pages: 230+[1]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Who Goes There?
  • Notes:
    • On copyright page: "Second Edition", "Copyright (c) 1948, 1951, by John W. Campbell Jr.".
    • $3.00 price and "Jacket design by Malcolm Smith" on jacket front flap.
    • Dust jacket promotes 1951 movie "The Thing from Another World" instead of the Hannes Bok artwork of the first edition. Other jacket differences from the first edition: (1) "Second Large Printing" and slightly different blurb on front flap, (2) list of Shasta titles on the back flap is different, and (3) the jacket back promotes a Shasta title that was never published: "Beyond These Walls" by Rena Vale.
    • Contents are identical to the first edition, including the "About the Author" bio, except for: (1) Last page of Campbell's "Introduction" omits the location and date from the first edition ("New York, N.Y.", "2 February, 1948"); (2) there are 3 additional Campbell books on page before title page ("Who Goes There?", "The Incredible Planet" and "The Moon is Hell!"); and (3) the layout of the title & Contents pages are slightly different.