Literary agent Bernard Shir-Cliff convinced Ballantine Books to buy everything Clarke had, including Childhood's End, " Encounter in the Dawn " ( 1953 ), ( which Ballantine changed to Expedition to Earth ), and Prelude to Space ( 1951 ).

Ballantine wanted to publish Childhood's End before Expedition to Earth and Prelude to Space, but Clarke wanted to wait.

Imperial Earth is a novel written by Arthur C. Clarke, and published in time for the U. S. bicentennial in 1976 by Ballantine Books.

* Clarke, Comer England Under Hitler: Revealed at Last — The Secret Nazi Plans for the Rape of England, New York: 1961 Ballantine Books ( paperback edition )

* The earliest Del Rey listing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database is the December 1976 fourth Ballantine paperback printing of A Prelude to Space ( 1951 ) by Arthur C. Clarke.

Ballantine Books was one of the earliest publishers of original science fiction paperbacks by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl.

Ace printed the first paperback edition and caused such a furor that Tolkien rewrote the books enough to get a new copyright, then sold them to Ballantine.

) She was also instrumental in obtaining the rights to publish novels based on George Lucas's then un-released movie Star Wars, which would earn Ballantine / Del Rey several million dollars.

The books have been reprinted a number of times as a trilogy ( as well as many times separately ): in 1986 by Ballantine Books as " Galactic Empire Novel ", in 1992 by Spectra as " The Empire Novels " and in 2010 along with The End of Eternity by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

Battle For Berlin: End Of The Third Reich, NY: Ballantine Books, London: Macdomald & Co.

* Ziemke, Earl F. Battle For Berlin: End Of The Third Reich, NY: Ballantine Books, London: Macdonald & Co, 1969.

In 1982, Ballantine published the first widely-available Bill James Abstract, which helped fuel fantasy baseball interest.

The Signet first edition cover, a parody of the 1965 Ballantine paperback cover by Barbara Remington, was drawn by Muppets designer Michael K. Frith.

Richard Hodgens planned a multivolume translation, whose first volume, subtitled The Ring of Angelica, was published by Ballantine Books as the fifty-fourth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in October, 1973.

Barnaby received much critical praise when it first appeared, and it has been reprinted in Barnaby Quarterly ( three issues, 1940s ), by Henry Holt and Company ( two hardcover books, with strips redrawn ), Dover books ( reprinting the first hardcover, 1960s ), Ballantine Books ( six paperbacks, 1980s ) and in Comics Revue magazine.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Mary Jane Watson ( voiced by Sara Ballantine ) first meets a 19-year-old Peter Parker in " The Return of the Spider-Slayers " ( Season # 1 Ep # 4 ), where May Parker set Peter up on a date with her without Peter even knowing who she was ( making it as Peter put it, " a blind date ").

In 1968, Ballantine published the first non-fiction book related to Star Trek, The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.

It was Frost who in 1945 was entrusted with the reconstruction of Penguin Inc after the departure of its first managing director Ian Ballantine.

Earthlight was first published in 1955, in the US by Ballantine Books and in the UK by Frederick Muller Ltd, and was last printed as a paperback in New York by Del Rey in 1998, ISBN 0-345-43070-0.

It would eventually lead to a contract for his first novel from Ballantine Books, the anthology's publisher.

When Bishop's first novel, A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, was published by Ballantine Books in 1975, critics Alexei and Cory Panshin wrote that the novel " shows an interest in the anthropological comparable to Ursula K. Le Guin and a sense of the alien comparable to James Tiptree, Jr.

* 1964-Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute for " conception and development of the first continuous optical laser which utilised Neon and Helium "

Airframe is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton, first published in hardcover in 1996 by Knopf and as a paperback in 1997 by Ballantine Books.

The novella first appeared in the anthology The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin, published by Ballantine Books in April 1973.

The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the UK in 1953 and first published in the US in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback.

Originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, it was the first original full-length Star Wars novel to be published after the release of the 1977 Star Wars film, retroactively making it one of the earliest Expanded Universe works.

It was first published in 1954 by Ballantine Books ( catalogue number 73 ).

The first American paperback edition was in 1964, from Ballantine Books.

He then wrote the first eight books in Ballantine Books ' Chopper-1 series, under the pseudonym Jack Hawkins.

In the introduction to Mads first paperback collection, The Mad Reader ( Ballantine Books, 1954 ), he described Kurtzman's appearance:

This story was also adapted into the first Robotech novel by Jack McKinney, published by Ballantine Books in 1987.

Ballantine Books, which publishes the Garfield books, released a volume of Garfield Minus Garfield strips on October 28, 2008.

When publisher Ian Ballantine, novelist Theodore Sturgeon and Shepherd met for lunch, Ballantine hired Sturgeon to write a novel based on Shepherd's outline.

Betty Ballantine completed the final chapter after Sturgeon fell exhausted asleep on the Ballantines ' couch, having tried to meet the deadline in one marathon typing session.

The largest rod caught salmon in Britain, caught on the Tay by Miss Georgina Ballantine in 1922, weighing 64 lbs, retains the British record.

Before his death, Ballantine delivers a videotape to an academic friend, but when viewed on an ordinary videotape machine the only result is radio static.

The success of the lecture led to further publicity, and the suggestion from David Brower the executive director of the environmentalist Sierra Club, and Ian Ballantine of Ballantine Books to write a book on the topic.

Ballantine prevailed in the struggle for the Tolkien work, with their editions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings including a message on the back cover from Tolkien himself urging consumers to buy Ballantine's version and boycott " unauthorized editions " ( i. e. the version from Ace Books ).

Betty Ballantine recalled: " And we did put a little statement on the back covers saying that Ace was not paying royalties to Professor Tolkien, and everybody who admired Lord of the Rings should only buy our paperback edition.

The Ballantine gates, on the east side of the park by Forest Hill, Newark, New Jersey | Forest Hill, were given to Branch Brook Park by Peter Ballantine in 1899.

* Lionshead beer, Lone Star beer, and Ballantine Ale feature rebuses on the underside of the caps of their glass bottles.

The book, published by Ballantine, took the number-one spot on The New York Times trade paperback list, breaking the existing record for profitability.

In 1998, Dufresne collaborated with Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard and nine other South Florida writers on Naked Came the Manatee, a detective novel published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House.

" How To Write A Mystery ," 1997 Ballantine Books “ The best genre specific book on writing we ’ ve seen .” Denver Post

It opened on 27 September 1966 with Gerry Duggan as McLeavy, Sheila Ballantine as Fay, Kenneth Cranham as Hal, Simon Ward as Dennis, and Michael Bates as Inspector Truscott.

Another site-specific installation, Party Time — Re-Imagine America: A Centennial Commission was simultaneously on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, from July 1, 2009, to January 3, 2010, in the dining room of the museum ’ s 1885 Ballantine House.

Soon after, Ballantine departed and Fred Field, a well-respected tax lawyer who was a friend of Procter ’ s and a colleague of Ballantine ’ s at the Revenue Bureau, signed on, and the firm was then known as Goodwin, Procter, Field & Hoar.

* Lester Gruber, portrayed by Carl Ballantine, was a fictional Torpedoman's Mate on the American television series McHale's Navy.

Born on January 17, 1916, in New York City to Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen I and the former Adaline Havemeyer, Frelinghuysen's father was a banker who descended from 18th century Dutch settlers in Somerset County.