Enterprise the First Adventure - Help!!

[PaulSimpson]

Hi

For a feature on Kirk, we need a scan of the cover of Enterprise: The First Adventure - but I want the original version (with the pic of the 3 crew) not the reprint one that just had the ship on it.

Can anyone on here oblige? If so, can you drop me a line on paul.simpson@titanemail.com

Many thanks in advance!

Paul

 

[Lonemagpie]

If you're OK with it being the UK edition, I've got one

 

[Dayton Ward]

Hi

For a feature on Kirk, we need a scan of the cover of Enterprise: The First Adventure - but I want the original version (with the pic of the 3 crew) not the reprint one that just had the ship on it.

Can anyone on here oblige? If so, can you drop me a line on paul.simpson@titanemail.com

Many thanks in advance!

Paul

The original U.S. edition had a blue cover with "ENTERPRISE" in big letters, with the Enterprise just visible in the upper right hand corner. When you opened it, you saw the picture with Kirk, Spock, McCoy.

(I also have a cover flat with the complete picture, featuring the entire crew, somewhere in a file.)

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have a US first edition if you still need it, Paul!

Starlog once printed the full artwork with the other crewmembers.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

(I also have a cover flat with the complete picture, featuring the entire crew, somewhere in a file.)

Which was used on the hardcover Sci-Fi Book Club edition. Unfortunately, my copy is back in San Diego—wah.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

My version is evidently somewhere between the 2nd and latest printings - it's blue with Enterprise! and probably the ship, but I don't recall a picture of Kirk, Spock and McCoy being in it. Bought sometime in the 90s.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Now that I've Googled it on Google Images, it seems Paul needs a good version of THIS:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/1594467887_31de9cbd82.jpg?v=0

I think this is a UK release.

For the Pocket US first edition, the image of Kirk/Spock/McCoy was hidden on glossy paper, under the card cover, with the Enterprise appearing due to a die-cut corner. Later editions omitted the extra art underneath and put the Enterprise onto the corner of the card cover. (When "Starlog" ran a story on ST novels, they printed the original hidden artwork intact, and that added Uhura, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov to the lineup.)

"Strangers From the Sky" and "Final Frontier", the other TOS "giants" of the day, continued the first edition's style for their first editions. Again, the reprints omitted the hidden artwork (including Robert & Sarah April from "Final Frontier") and removed the need for die-cut corners by putting the ships on the outside.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Yeah. that's the one I did two scans of for him on Thursday afternoon... Except my copy's in better nick than that one!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Except my copy's in better nick than that one!

Yeah, reminded me of my ST III novelization that got passed around - without my knowledge - in the agonizing months between the US and Aussie premieres of that movie. Had to buy a new one.