Lots of things get announced that never come out. I still want my copy of The God Thing!
Hardcover versions of Star Trek paperback books
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Lots of things get announced that never come out. I still want my copy of The God Thing!
Oh hells yes! I was so bummed when those got shelved. Fingers crossed we get to read them some day.
hate to bump an old account but here we are.
I have stumbled into the Star Trek Hard Cover Book Club Edition rabbit hole after stumbling into Gregg Press copies of Triangle, Covenant of the Crown, & My Enemy, My Ally at a Antique Mall.
Anyway my question is are these book editions abridged, as they seem smaller than the paper back versions?
Thanks if anyone knows the answer
I have stumbled into the Star Trek Hard Cover Book Club Edition rabbit hole after stumbling into Gregg Press copies of Triangle, Covenant of the Crown, & My Enemy, My Ally at a Antique Mall.
Anyway my question is are these book editions abridged, as they seem smaller than the paper back versions?
Thanks if anyone knows the answer
Smaller? The smallest ST hardcover I have (other than a few MMPBs that I had custom bound by a local library-specialty bookbinder) is the Gregg edition of The Klingon Gambit, and it's still slightly larger in page size than the MMPB original (albeit maybe slightly thinner; if the pont-size of the type was held constant and the column size were expanded to fill the page size, that would account for a lower page-count).
So far as I'm aware, unless the fact that an edition was abridged is obvious (e.g., the Little Golden Books picture-book of Baum's The Road to Oz, or the Random House pop-up edition of Baum's The Wizard of Oz), I would expect a publisher to state, right on the cover, that an edition is abridged; otherwise, they might get sued for misrepresentation.
Incidentally, one of my custom-hardbound MMPBs is Spock: Messiah, by Cogswell & Spano. Not a terribly good book, but (other than the children's novel, Mission to Horatius), it was the only the second adult-audience ST novel published (after Spock Must Die), and the first single-author volume of adult-audience TrekLit not by James Blish. So it is of some historical interest.
So far as I'm aware, unless the fact that an edition was abridged is obvious (e.g., the Little Golden Books picture-book of Baum's The Road to Oz, or the Random House pop-up edition of Baum's The Wizard of Oz), I would expect a publisher to state, right on the cover, that an edition is abridged; otherwise, they might get sued for misrepresentation.
Incidentally, one of my custom-hardbound MMPBs is Spock: Messiah, by Cogswell & Spano. Not a terribly good book, but (other than the children's novel, Mission to Horatius), it was the only the second adult-audience ST novel published (after Spock Must Die), and the first single-author volume of adult-audience TrekLit not by James Blish. So it is of some historical interest.
The Gregg Press editions are photo offset from the Pocket Books paperbacks. They are, page for page, the exact text and formatting as the paperbacks, slightly enlarged so they don’t have annoyingly wide margins. Definitely NOT abridged. (Funny note: the hardcover reprint of the infamous Killing Time is the unexpurgated, slightly “slashy” text, so it’s totally worth seeking out.)
The first 5 titles were published in 1984, and were 5 x 8 inches (cover size). They did 6 more titles in in 1985, and an additional 6 in 1986. Those two years’ titles were 5 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches.
Gregg Press went out of business before they could get their 6 1987 titles into print, but those 6 were published (back in the 5 x 8 format) in the UK by Firecrest, who had previously published UK versions of most of the Gregg titles.
Gregg Press books were meant for the library market, but were also widely available in convention dealer’s rooms at the time (I remember first seeing them at NASFiC in 1987).
ETA: And I repeated a bunch of what I stated in a pair of posts a dozen years back. I’m such a book nerd!
The first 5 titles were published in 1984, and were 5 x 8 inches (cover size). They did 6 more titles in in 1985, and an additional 6 in 1986. Those two years’ titles were 5 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches.
Gregg Press went out of business before they could get their 6 1987 titles into print, but those 6 were published (back in the 5 x 8 format) in the UK by Firecrest, who had previously published UK versions of most of the Gregg titles.
Gregg Press books were meant for the library market, but were also widely available in convention dealer’s rooms at the time (I remember first seeing them at NASFiC in 1987).
ETA: And I repeated a bunch of what I stated in a pair of posts a dozen years back. I’m such a book nerd!
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