DELL "Binary Stars" Image Library

No. 1. FRITZ LEIBER Destiny Times Three (c.1973) bound with NORMAN SPINRAD Riding the Torch (cover by George Tsui with interior illustrations by Freff; c.1974; August 1978; 1st DELL printing; Dell code number 11090)

Listed as "Two Great Novellas in a Single Volume."  James R. Frenkel is credited [but only in the introductions] as the series editor.

Note that for each of these "double" volumes, there is an "Afterwords" essay by the other author in the book.  For example, the Fritz Leiber story has an "Afterwords" essay penned by Norman Spinrad, and vice versa.

Information concerning the interior illustration artist Freff (aka Connor Freff Cochran) can be found at: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11513

No. 2. GORDON EKLUND The Twilight River (c.1973) bound with F. PAUL WILSON The Tery (cover by George Tsui with interior illustrations by Stephen Fabian; February 1979, 1st DELL printing)

No. 3. RON GOULART Dr. Scofflaw bound with ISIDORE HAIBLUM Outerworld (cover by George Tsui with interior illustrations by James Odbert; August 1979, 1st DELL printing)

This is a true first paperback edition for both of these stories as copyright publication for both is 1979.

No. 4. JOAN D. VINGE Legacy (c.1976, 1977, 1978, 1980) bound with STEVEN G. SPRUILL The Janus Equation (cover by George Tsui with interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan; February 1980; 1st DELL printing; Dell code number 10821)

No. 5. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Nightflyers (c.1980) bound with VERNOR VINGE True Names (cover by George Tsui with interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan; February 1981, 1st DELL printing)

Last update: 12 February 2021

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