Spectrum Paperback books catalogue

175 items

The “Spectrum Paperback” series (SP) started out in 1974 as a visibly numbered series, with the number on the back. Around 1980 the number disappeared from the back. But they were still numbered. That numbering only stopped at No. 1000 in 1992. More

Over the years, Het Spectrum has published many book series. Most visibly numbered, but others not. The Spectrum itself just kept numbering everything, and they had a special code for that that can often be found in the colophon of all their books. That code had the format “aa-bbbb.cc”. “aa” is the identifier of the string. “bbbb” is the number in the appropriate series and “cc” is the pressure of the edition. The sequence code for the “Spectrum Paperbacks” was 20. Thus, in No. 1000, Mary Stewart's “The Last Enchantment” reads: 20-1000.01. Many of the "paperbacks" entered in CW are therefore entered unnumbered, because not everyone knows where that code can be found and what it means. On the other hand, there are now, unnecessarily, many items entered under fancy series names such as "White Series (Spectrum)" when they simply belong under the book series "Spectrum Paperbacks".

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175

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Oldest item

De ziekte-industrie (1974)