The Making Of Star Trek....

[JE Smith]

AHEM.

Surely there's a Lost In Space thread where this digression could be taken?

 

[Christopher]

^Did those first two editions have the 64 pages of photographs?

 

[JE Smith]

^Did those first two editions have the 64 pages of photographs?

I think so. The second one is the one I bought off the paperback spinner at the IGA grocery store in the early '70s. And somewhere around here I've got a copy of the first edition, which I'm pretty sure also had the same photo section.

 

[Christopher]

^I figured as much, but they didn't have the note about the photos on their covers, so that made me wonder. (Maybe it's on the back covers?)

 

[Warped9]

My first copy was the second one. My current copy is the bottom one and the content of both is identical even though the front and back covers differ.

 

[Christopher]

My first copy was the Del Rey edition but in silver instead of white. My current copy is the white version of same.

 

[Galileo7]

My first copy was the second one. My current copy is the bottom one and the content of both is identical even though the front and back covers differ.

Me too. This is a great book. I got my first copy as a boy.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

My copy looks like the second one, except the price was $1.50 not $1.25, and the partial ISBN number in the upper-left is different. Mine says thirteenth U. S. printing, September, 1974.

 

[Kor]

I think that over the years I have owned copies with the first and second covers. I'm not sure where my current copy is at the moment.

This book is an excellent resource, without a doubt.

Kor

 

[ZapBrannigan]

My first copy was the second one. My current copy is the bottom one and the content of both is identical even though the front and back covers differ.

Me too. This is a great book. I got my first copy as a boy.

Check and double-check. I have the same ones. I wore out that first one (95-cent price, my Dad brought it home one for me night) and now have it preserved in Saran Wrap.

But my copy of the bottom one, which I've kept in near-mint condition, has a red emblem on it saying "STAR TREK 25th Anniversary!"

It was the 27th printing, September 1991. Cover price $5.99:

I bought it in '91 thinking that the book might go out of print, or that future editions would not have all the photos. I'm glad I did.

 

[Warped9]

The only time I ever saw the first cover, other than decades later online, was when I once came across a hardcover copy in my highschool library. By then I already had a newer paperback edition such as I mentioned already upthread.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

The only time I ever saw the first cover, other than decades later online, was when I once came across a hardcover copy in my highschool library. By then I already had a newer paperback edition such as I mentioned already upthread.

I never knew there was a hardcover edition. I'd love to see a web image of that baby.

 

[JE Smith]

I always thought it was odd that the second version has a big blurb in red letters at the very top: THE BOOK ON HOW TO WRITE FOR TV! I mean, sure, there's some discussion of the writing, but it's hardly the main focus of the book. Hawking it as some how-to guide for writers is seriously misleading.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I've owned two or three copies. But a hardcover? I would love to see that. The only hardcover TOS-related books I have from that era are the Blish Star Trek Reader series.

 

[Christopher]

I always thought it was odd that the second version has a big blurb in red letters at the very top: THE BOOK ON HOW TO WRITE FOR TV! I mean, sure, there's some discussion of the writing, but it's hardly the main focus of the book. Hawking it as some how-to guide for writers is seriously misleading.

But at the time, there weren't a lot of other behind-the-scenes books about TV production; TMoST pretty much pioneered the genre, or so I gather. So it was "the book" on the subject because there wasn't much of anything else that covered it at all.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

But at the time, there weren't a lot of other behind-the-scenes books about TV production; TMoST pretty much pioneered the genre, or so I gather. So it was "the book" on the subject because there wasn't much of anything else that covered it at all.

--that, and John Gregory Dunne's The Studio (the behind the scenes look into 20th Century Fox business, TV & film production during 1967).

 

[J.T.B.]

My first copy was the Del Rey edition but in silver instead of white.

Mine was/is also silver, but Ballantine. Fifteenth printing, 1975, $1.95.

 

[Christopher]

^Oh, yeah, I guess mine was Ballantine too. I just meant it had the same cover as the Del Rey edition shown above. Mine was probably '74 or '75.

 

[mb22]

But a hardcover? I would love to see that.

It could have been a special library binding edition not available in stores.

 

[mb22]

Here's another cover: