Publication: Doomed Nation of the Skies!

Publication: Doomed Nation of the Skies!Publication Record # 266601
Author: Steve Future
Date: 1953-11-00
Publisher: Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library
Price:
-/9^?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: 64
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: CHAPBOOK
Cover: Doomed Nation of the Skies! by Ron Turner
Notes:
- No copyright page. Title is placed at top of page 1 with "by Steve Future" below it. [This Publication Record]. Novel starts immediately after.
- No printing date, printing, printing number line, catalog number or edition in/on book.
- No copyright data in book.
- Print font of novel is very small. Probably double or triple the word count for similar period publications.
- Inside covers and back cover are full page advertisements.
- Title is without ! after Skies on front cover and spine.
- Cover artist not credited in/on book. However the cover has been shown and attributed to Ron Turner here [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5792/RonTurnerGalley.htm].
- Price located near top right front cover (large type). Also running down bottom spine (small type).
- "Tit-Bits (over) Science Fiction (over) Library" in irregular rectangle at bottom right front cover.
- 'Titbits' Science Fiction Library running downwards at top spine.
- Pearson running downwards at very bottom spine.
- At very bottom inside back cover is this statement: "Printed and bound in England, by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, for the Publishers C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street, London, W.C.2" (number is one-third the size of lettering). Though this statement is below an "APAL" advertisement, it appears to be for the novel printing, not the advertisement.
- This item is of digest size with two staples stapled through pages one through 64 (actual count)(front to back not center page). The book and cover was crimped to one-quarter inch down spine length and glued onto binding.
- Adds: synopsis, printing month. Questions if the author is actually Steve Gilroy. Information on page 56, Harbottle/Holland.
- Tuck III, pg. 651, bot. rt. col., states Pearson, T-B, 1953, 64 pages, 9d.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 63091276
- Reginald-1: 05697

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