Notes: Dated 1st printing of this 1972 edition. Title page:

• "John Carnell [over] New Writings in SF—20"
• Corgi colophon [over] "Corgi Books [over] Transworld Publishers Ltd [over] A National General Company"

Copyright page:

• "New Writings in SF—20"
• "A Corgi Book 0 552 08879 X"
• "Originally published in Great Britain by [over] Dobson Books Ltd."
• "Printing History"
• "Dobson Books edition published 1972" [there is no evidence such an edition exists]
• "Corgi edition published 1972"
• "Copyright © 1972 by John Carnell"
• "Corgi Books are published by Transworld Publishers, Ltd., [over] Cavendish House, 57–59 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, [over] London, W.5."
• "Made and printed in Great Britain by [over] Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk."
• No number line.

Spine:

• "0 552 08879 X"

Back cover:

• The cover artist is not credited, no visible signature on the artwork. This cover is in the style of other covers by Solution.
• "UK 25p, Australia 80c, New Zealand 80c, Canada 95c"

Month/day from Open Library and readinglength.com as of 2024/09/29. Amazon UK states 1972-01-28. ToC on the first numbered page, 5, lists the page numbers of the half-title pages for each story; respectively pps. 11, 29, 63, 83, 135, 161. The story texts start on pages as below. Foreword is titled "Foreword [over] by John Carnell", and is signed, on page 10, "May 1970 John Carnell". An advert (bep) for ordering available Corgi books is dated "(Jan. 72)". Last story finishes on the last numbered page, 188. There are no Acknowledgements. Gloss cover.