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All are Digest Format Issues:

Strato bre issues

Strato's british reprint editions started off reprinting the complete third anniversary merkin issue of October 1952 - as "Volume 3 Number 1"!;
Vol.3 No.2 was a complete reprint of the previous month's issue, followed by a complete reprint of the November 1952 issue as Vol.3 No.3... - whereafter reprinting continued in more orderly fashion, with odd short stories being ommitted from Vol.3 No.7 onwards.
The "Volume 3" was quietly dropped after the twelfth issue, with numbering of the monthly issues continuing consecutively up to No.71 (though two of the merkin originals saw no corresponding bre published); from No. 72 through No. 79 the bre was a reprint of the complete, now bi-monthly original, corresponding to the merkin issues February 1959 through April 1960, the last to see a Strato Publications bre.

From No. 80 onwards, the "bre" was the merkin original with a "for-uk" variant cover (June 1960 through August 1962, No. 93) and possibly as far as October 1962 (which would have been No. 94), though i have not seen this; whereafter merkin copies were rubber-stamped with uk price and numerically, with the month of distribution (or perhaps of taking off-sale by news stands).

for-uk covered merkin issues

  • #80 (June 1960 Vol.18 #5) ukL 3.95
  • #81 (August 1960 Vol.18 #6) ukL 3.95
  • #82 (October 1960 Vol.19 #1) ukL 3.95
  • #83 (December 1960 Vol.19 #2) ukL 3.95
  • #84 (February 1961 Vol.19 #3) ukL 3.95
  • #85 (April 1961 Vol.19 #4) ukL 3.95
  • #86 (June 1961 Vol.19 #5) ukL 3.95
  • #87 (August 1961 Vol.19 #6) ukL 3.95
  • #88 (October 1961 Vol.20 #1) ukL 3.95
  • #89 (December 1961 Vol.20 #2) ukL 3.95
  • #90 (February 1962 Vol.20 #3) ukL 3.95
  • #90 (February 1962 Vol.20 #3) (cover creased open 0.25" from spine, else good) ukL 2.95

From No. 91 onwards, the original merkin date was added to the uk number cover (April*1962 through Aug. 1962, No. 93) and possibly as far as October 1962 (which would have been No. 94), though i have not seen this; whereafter merkin copies were rubber-stamped with uk price and numerically, with the month of distribution (or perhaps of taking off-sale by news stands).

for-uk covered merkin issues

  • #91 April 1962 (Vol.20 #4) ukL 3.95
  • #91 April 1962 (Vol.20 #4) (cover creased open from base spine to 0.25" from top spine, old light scored line 0.75" towards fly from this crease, top fly corner creased, else good) ukL 2.95
  • #92 June 1962 (Vol.20 #5) ukL 3.95
  • #92 June 1962 (Vol.20 #5) (cover almost un-glued, else good-v.good) ukL 3.95
  • #93 August 1962 (Vol.20 #6) ukL 3.95

Gold Star Publications briefly published a bre consisting of merkin copies with re-dated six months on for-uk covers, in 1967, after which merkin copies were distributed in the uk (if at all) until the magazine was bought by Universal Publications in 1969
Gold Star for-uk covered merkin issues

Universal-Tandem's bre was a for-uk recover of the merkin issue dated one month later, September 1969 (of the merkin original August 1969) through the end of 1970, with some uk advertisments replacing merkin ads, after which the original was distributed as a "joint edition"; both were distributed by New English Library's Magazine division.

  • April 1970 (April 1970 on masthead) "Vol.29 #6" (v. good) ukL 4.95
  • June 1970 (June 1970 on masthead) "Vol.30 #2" (fair-good) ukL 3.95
  • September 1971 (September-October 1971 on masthead) "Vol.32 #2" (front cover creased back from base of spine to 0.25" away from spine at top, else fair) ukL 2.95

(By this time renamed "Tandem Books Ltd.") Tandem again published and now also distributed (poorly) a bre consisting of the merkin original re-covered and re-numbered for the uk from mid 1972; but theirs was a re-numbering scheme most peculiar -
and as the merkin vol. numbering also went fairly strange at this time, i list Tandem Books bre issue number - (month[s] year date) - merkin original "volume number issue number":

  • 1 (May-June 1972) "Vol.32 #6"
  • 2 (July-August 1972) "Vol.33 #1"
  • 3 (September-October 1972) "Vol.33 #2"
  • 4 (November-December 1972) "Vol.33 #3"
  • 5 (January-February 1973) "Vol.33 #4"
  • 6 (March-April 1973) "Vol.33 #5"
  • 7 (May-June 1973) "Vol.33 #6"
  • 8 (July-August 1973) "Vol.34 #7" (woops!) ukL 1.95
    three moth worm-holes eaten in top edge of some 112pp & inside back cover, pages browning from edges, front & back covers strained, name neatly inscribed top fly inside front cover, "else good"
  • 9 (September 1973) "Vol.34 #8" (the same woops continued) ukL 1.95
    top front cover 3/4s scored along, pages browning from edges, front cover strained also light crease down 0.5" from spine, name neatly inscribed top fly inside front cover, "else good"
  • 10 (October 1973) "Vol.34 #1"
  • 11 (November 1973) "Vol.34 #2" ukL 1.95
    top 1-1.5" front cover faded, pages browning from edges, front cover strained, light crease in spine, bottom fly corner front cover c. 1" diagonal crease, "else fair-good"
  • 11 (December 1973, "Vol.34 #3" ukL 3.95
    pages browning from edges, front cover strained to c. 50 degrees, name neatly inscribed top fly inside front cover, else good-vg
    Inverted World - Christopher Priest #1/4: "I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles"...; The Dream Millennium - James White #N/N; Sweet Sister, Green Brother - Sydney J van Scyoc; Unbiased God - Doris Piserchia; Her Fine and Private Place - Roland Green; A Better Rat-Trap - Charles Hoequist & Robert Phillips; depts.
  • 12 (January 1974) "Vol.34 #4"
  • 12 (February 1974) "Vol.34 #5" ukL 2.95
    2.5 & 1" creases fly bottom corner front cover, pages browning from edges, light crease down centre spine, front cover strained to c. 20 degrees, else good
    Inverted World - Christopher Priest #3/4; Created Equal - Bill Higgins; Deathsong - Sydney J van Scyoc; Rivers of Damascus - R A Lafferty; Protest - Peter Tate; depts.
  • 12 (March 1974) "Vol.34 #6"
  • 14 (April 1974) "Vol.34 #7" (mega woops!!)
  • 17th Edition (May 1974) "Vol.35 #5"
  • 18th Edition (June 1974) "Vol.35 #6"
  • 19th Edition (July 1974) "Vol.35 #7"
  • 20th Edition (August 1974) "Vol.35 #8"
  • 21st Edition (September 1974) "Vol.35 #9"
  • 22nd Edition (October 1974) "Vol.35 #10" ukL 2.95
    front cover creased from by top spine corner to c. 2.5" down fly edge, back cover top fly corner c.1.5" near dog-ear crease, pages browning from edges, front cover strained to c. 90 degrees, name neatly inscribed top fly inside front cover, else good
    The Company of Glory - Edgar Pangborm #3/3; The Eastcoast Confinement - "Arsen Darnay"; Under the Hammer - David Drake; Witch Children - James F Lacey; Easy Rider - H Carl Hill; The Last Destination of Master G - Mal Warwick; The Long Night - John Christopher; The Twist - Tim Altom; depts. incl. Ships for Manned Spaceflight - Jerry Pournelle
  • 23rd Edition (November 1974) "Vol.35 #11" ukL 2.95
    pages browning from edges, front cover top fly corner bumped, front cover also strained to c. 10 degrees, else good-vg
  • 24th Edition (December 1974) "Vol.35 #12"

this "24th Edition" was the last of the Tandem Books bre, strictly, though the "Edition" numbering ran on through the 32nd Edition (July 1976) "Vol.36 #7"; but the last seven were "joint editions" with the merkin issues, the uk edition numbers printed in a small (low point size) plain font somewhere - anywhere - upon the covers.
The merkin original was again distributed in the uk therafter, more or less, by Comag (Conde Nast-National Magazines), via the news wholesalers, until the eventual sale of the title to Avenue Victor Hogo Publications, the owners & publishers of the 'til then fairly successful Galileo SF magazine, whose sole, large-format issue of Galaxy in 1980 saw no general uk distribution.
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