Edison's Conquest of Mars - Publication History

Publication History

• 1898, USA, New York Evening Journal, Pub. date 12 January – 10 February 1898, serialized in 26 parts, with illustrations by P. Gray
• 1947, USA, Carcosa House OCLC 2494245, Pub. date 1947, Hardback, first book publication, with an introduction by A. Langley Searles, and with selected illustrations redrawn by Bernard Manley, Jr.
• 1954, USA, Hanover House OCLC 2581070, Pub. date 1954, Hardback, abridged version included in The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics, edited by Harold W. Kuebler
• 1969, USA, Powell Publications OCLC 1184448, Pub. date 1969, Paperback, slightly abridged by Forrest J. Ackerman as Invasion of Mars
• 1972, USA, Ace Books, Pub. date 1972 – 1973, Paperback, heavily abridged version serialized in Perry Rhodan, nos. 16 – 22 as The Conquest of Mars
• 1998, USA, Routledge/ Thoemmes Press, ISBN 0-415-19296-X, reprinted from the 1947 edition, without the illustrations, with new pagination (together with The War of the Wenuses and The Struggle for Empire) in the series Sources of Science Fiction: Future War Novels of the 1890s, edited and introduced by George Locke
• 2006, Canada, Apogee Books ISBN 0-9738203-0-6, Pub. date August 2006, Paperback, unedited unabridged version with the original newspaper illustrations