Publication: The Machine-God Laughs

Publication: The Machine-God LaughsPublication Record # 43456
Editor: uncredited
Date: 1949-00-00
Publisher: Griffin Publishing Co.
Price:
$1.50^?$: US dollar
Pages: 134
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Machine-God Laughs by Laura Ruth Crozetti
Notes:
- No statement of edition or printing on book or jacket. Date on title page is "1949".
- "Copyright 1948-49 by Fantasy Publishing Co. Inc." on copyright page. Fantasy Publishing's name and address is also on front flap of jacket. However, the publisher on the title page is "Griffin Publishing Co., Los Angeles".
- $1.50 price and "Jacket Designed by Crozetti" on front flap of jacket. Artist Laura Ruth Crozetti confirmed from the Merril collection at the Toronto public library.
- Basil Wells' "Crusader" is reprinted as by Wells even though it was originally published as by "Gene Ellerman" in Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 5, 1949.
- "Son of Daddy!" by Jack L. Chalker in Fantasy Newsletter No. 62, September 1983 states that 1500 copies were printed, of which 1200 were clothbound and 300 sold for Pick-a-Book. 1st Verification copy is green cloth. 2nd is red boards with headbands and the publisher as F.P.C.I on the spine in gold.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 4372370
- Reginald-1: 03558

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Anthology Title: The Machine-God Laughs • anthology by William L. Crawford [as by uncredited]

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