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  • Publication: Contemporary Science Fiction AuthorsPublication Record # 263588
  • Author: R. Reginald
  • Date: 1975-04-00
  • ISBN: 0-405-06332-6 [978-0-405-06332-9]
  • Publisher: Arno Press
  • Pub. Series: Science Fiction [Arno Press]
  • Price:
    $20.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: [xii]+368
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Webpages: archive.org
  • Notes:
    • A reprint of the main text of Stella Nova, privately printed in 1970, with a new Introduction, Title Index, List of Pseudonyms, and Afterword. The book was also paginated, which the original was not, and minor corrections were added to the text.
    • Library binding (no dustjacket) in a limited press run, initially of 250 copies. The book had at least two printings: the first in violet cloth, the second (undated) in turquoise cloth.
    • Copy used for cover scan & primary verification has, on the title page:
        CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS First Edition Compiled and Edited by R. Reginald ARNO PRESS ... New York –– 1975
      but on the copyright page,
        Reprint Edition 1974 by Arno Press Inc. Copyright © 1970 by Unicorn & Son, Publishers. New material Copyright © 1974 by R. Reginald. ... Reprinted by permission of R. Reginald Reprinted from a copy in the California State College, San Bernardino Library First published 1970 as STELLA NOVA: THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS; reprinted 1974 by Arno Press Inc., with additions and changes by the author. ...
      and the following LoC CIP Data also has 1974. Presumably I have the first Arno printing, because it has a purple cover, but because of the contradiction of title page cf copyright page, I left the dates as 1975-04, as they were before I edited this record. [... clarkmci, May 2015]
    • The Afterword is dated 28 July 1974.
    • The source of the price above is not known to primary verifier.
    • Artist of illustration on page [vi] taken from the artwork.
    • The cover art isn't credited (although likely to be "Hughes", based on style comparison).
  • External IDs:
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 1085661
    • Reginald-3: 32152
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Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Clarkmci 2015-05-12 05:42:23 Permanent 2019-02-28

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