La Bantam Bibliographically Speaking Part II

In part I of the blog I discussed the differences between various issues (variants) of the books published by Bantam Publications. Here I'll look in detail at one of the books.

Book 22, The Green Death and other stories by Brett Hutton, has five variant covers, four with text and one illustrated. The text covers are strong blue/light blue, strong blue/light gray, strong blue/light green and strong yellowish green/light blue.

Aside from the colours, there are two sets of text covers. The strong blue/light blue and strong yellowish green/light blue versions have the following:

• "Green Death" all in capitals
• the cover blurb not italicized and large type face
• a blank Bantam eye
• the title in small type face on spine
• list of 11 books on back cover.

The strong blue/light gray and strong blue/light green versions have the following:

• "Green Death" capital and lower case with a smaller "G" and "D"
• the cover blurb italicized and small type face
• a black Bantam eye
• the title in large type face on spine
• list of 12 books on back cover with the book titles in slightly larger type face.

The text block is identical in all variants. So far I have seen no way to establish any printing priority for the text cover issues of the second group of books - 21 through 28.

The difference in the blue colour below is not evident on the books.