The Wrecks Of Time
New York: Ace, 1967 (December) mass-sized paperback;
an “Ace Double” combined with Tramontane by Emil Petaja;
original price: 60¢;
256 pages (135 + ii + 119pp.);
I.S.B.N.: none (code: H-36);
cover artist: Jack Gaughan (also interior);
no (individual) hardcover edition.
A (more or less) standalone novel, The Wrecks Of Time was first serialised in New Worlds (q.v.) in 1965/’66, as by ‘James Colvin’. It first appeared in book form (under Moorcock’s own name, as part of a double-feature anthology [see below]) in 1967 with unauthorised cuts and/or changes, before being restored and retitled as The Rituals Of Infinity in 1971, then later title-reverted back to The Wrecks Of Time in 1994. It was collected (as Wrecks…) revised in The Roads Between The Worlds (1996), and later with its original, unrevised text (mostly) restored in Travelling To Utopia (2014).
The Wrecks Of Time (135 pages) + Tramontane (119 pages + 2 of advertisements).
New York: Fantastic Books trade-sized paperback, 2012 (April);
original price: $13·99;
135 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-61720-364-0;
cover artist: Ian Randal Strock;
text follows 1996 revisions otherwise used (only) in The Roads Between The Worlds (omnibus).
cover artist: unknown.
London: Roc mass-sized paperback, 1994 (January 27th);
original price: £4·99;
192 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-14-017349-8;
cover artist: James Cawthorn.
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The Wrecks Of Time is also available as an e-book: 9780575092785.
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