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  • Publication: Science Fiction Adventures, No. 5Publication Record # 212649 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editors: John Carnell, Larry T. Shaw
  • Date: 1958-11-00
  • Publisher: Nova Publications Ltd.
  • Price:
    2/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: 118
  • Format:
    digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Cover: Science Fiction Adventures, No. 5 by Ed Emshwiller (variant of Science Fiction Adventures, June 1957 1957) [as by Emsh]
  • Notes:
    • Vol. 1 No. 5 at top right contents page. No. 5 (over) Volume 1 at top front cover. Volume 1. No. 5 running downwards at top spine.
    • Printing date 11/58 at bottom right contents page. Publication date of 1958 at top right contents page.
    • No copyright information in book.
    • "American edition edited by Larry T. Shaw" on contents page.
    • "British edition edited by John Carnell" on contents page.
    • The Editor's Space has a short essay which ends -LTS for Larry T. Shaw. Not titled.
    • "Cover and illustrations by EMSH" on contents page. Cover art signature "EMSH" at bottom left cover art.
    • Frontispiece illustration with "This World Must Die!" with Ivar Jorgenson under that, followed by "Illustrated by Emsh". Includes further captioning but signature not found.
    • Frontispiece illustration with The Starcombers by Edmond Hamilton, captioning, and "illustrated by Emsh" below it. Signature "EMSH" at bottom left of sketch.
    • Frontispiece illustration with Vengeance of the Space Armadas by Calvin M. Knox, followed by captioning, and "illustrated by Ed Emsh". Signature not found.
    • Above title on story title page of Vengeance of the Space Armadas is this. "This is the third and final story in the 'Chalice' series, the previous two being Chalice of Death in No. 1 and Earth Shall Live Again in No 3. The entire trilogy has been published as a pocketbook in New York by Ace Books under the title Lest We Forget Thee, Earth.
    • Price 2/- at top right front cover.
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Editor Title: Science Fiction Adventures UK 1958 • [Science Fiction Adventures (1958-1963) (UK)] • edited by John Carnell and Larry T. Shaw

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