Novels

Hanging On

See Also: Dean Koontz Writes

Uncorrected Proof

Release Date: 1973
Copyright: Copyright © 1973 by Dean R. Koontz
Format: Trade paperback in plain wraps (26.9 x 13.7 x 1.5cm)
Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc.
Page Count: unnumbered
States: "UNCORRECTED PROOF" on cover and "9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Photo courtesy of Paul Evans.

Trade Hardcover

Release Date: 1973
Copyright: Copyright © 1973 by Dean R. Koontz
Publisher: M. Evans & Co.
Page Count: 312
ISBN-10: 0-87131-118-6
Cover Price: $6.95
States: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"

UK Trade Hardcover

Release Date: 1974
Copyright: Copyright © 1973 by Dean R. Koontz
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins
Page Count: 312
ISBN-10: 0-214-20036-8
Cover Price: £2.50
States: “First published in Great Britain 1974 by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd”
From the author description on the back dj flap:
”…though Hanging On is the first to be published in England.”

UK Book Club Edition

Release Date: November 1975
Copyright: This collection © 1975 by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd
Publisher: Oldham Books
Page Count: 509
SBN: 600779424
Original List Price: Unknown
States: No statement of printing

Issued without dust jacket

Contains Knock Down by Dick Francis, Hanging On by Dean R. Koontz, and Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen by P.G. Woodhouse

Hanging On is on pages 169-389


Mass Market Paperback

Release Date: February 1976
Copyright: Copyright 1973 by Dean R. Koontz
Page Count: 271
SBN: 440-05437
Cover Price: $1.50
States: "Reprinted by arrangement with M. Evans and Company, Inc." and “First Dell printing – February 1976”

Notes

June 2025:
It seems that there is an alternate hardcover dust jacket that uses an alternate sans-serif font. The one or two people who have noticed and have compared the two version of the book can find no other differences. However, based on an ABE Books listing, the alternat version may have been just on advance copes sent out by the publisher. The listing states:
“This was a review copy – included in the book is the newspaper cut-out of the review (from the Harrisburg independent press – which is where Koontz went to college and clearly the reviewer knew Koontz personally), the reviewer (Dick Sassaman) then gifted this review book later that same year (Christmas 1973) per the gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Flat signed (not inscribed to a person) on the pre-title page by Dean Koontz.”

Hanging On - Two fonts
Hanging On – Two fonts
Hanging On - ARC with Alternat Sans-serif Font ABE Books listing (1)
Hanging On – ARC with Alternat Sans-serif Font ABE Books listing (1)
Hanging On - ARC with Alternat Sans-serif Font ABE Books listing (2)
Hanging On – ARC with Alternat Sans-serif Font ABE Books listing (2)

Additional proof photos courtesy of Paul Evans (no relation to the publisher):

Hanging On (proof title page)
Hanging On (proof title page)
Hanging On (proof copyright page)
Hanging On (proof copyright page)
Hanging On (proof spine)
Hanging On (proof spine)

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Hanging On inscription to Art Stone courtesy of Michael Lee Sudduth
Hanging On inscription to Gary Elswick
Hanging On author promo photo courtesy of Michael Lee Sudduth

Other editions:

UK mass market paperback

Last updated on November 15th, 2024