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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.
The 22nd book published by Bantam Publications is The Green Death and Other Stories by Brett Hutton. I can find no sources for the stories.
In common with all but one of Bantam's books The Green Death is 100 pages long and is 110 mm (4 5/16") wide by 152 mm (6") tall. Cover and pages are made from high acid pulp paper. The page collation is:
[1] title page,
[2] copyright and contents page,
3-70 The Green Death,
71-85 The Man Who Would Not Fight,
86-100 Legionnaires of Death.
The copyright date is 1940.
In common with most LA Bantams there are variant covers, four with text and one illustrated. The text covers are strong blue/light blue, strong blue/light gray, strong blue/light yellowish green and strong yellowish green/light blue. The first two text and illustrated covers are below.
