Battle for the Stars
London : Mayflower, 1963. –
190 p. ; 19 cm. – (Mayflower Dell ; 0480) pbk. ￡’3/6
“There were some men to whom Earth was more than just another planet” — Cover

Battle for the Stars
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1961.11. –
iv, 206 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book)
LCCN: 61-15300
Note: trade issue, with price “$2.95” at upper right corner of front inner flap, and which, released in November 1961, preceded the Book Club edition, which was a December 1961 selection (both issues printed from the same pressing, both having printing code “C42” on page 206 — Currey

Battle for the Stars
New York : Tom Doherty Association Book, 1989.5. –
107, 141 p. ; 18 cm. – (A Tom Doherty Associate Book ; 55960)
(TOR Double ; 8) pbk $0.5
Bound With: The Nemesis from Terra / by Brackett (141 p.)
Cover: Bryn Bernard ISBN: 0812559606
“Can the crew of the Starsong protect Earth from alien invaders?” — Cover
Followed in space
The Starsong was beginning to pass between the two huge red binaries into the thicker sprawl of stars through which the channel led. The channel was not straight, and you could not take it too fast—in that swarm of suns the fabric of a ship could be torn apart in some deadly gravity drag or vaporized in collision. The only thing was that the Orionids were still following them.
But Birrel said nothing. This was Garstang’s job and he let him do it. The enormous pairs of red suns flashed past them on either side and were gone, and they were in the channel. Under his feet he could feel the Starsong quiver, wincing and flinching like a live thing. On either side the overhanging cliffs of stars seemed to topple toward them. He looked upward at the nebula, like a glowing thundercloud roofing the channel, and then down at the shoaling suns below.
Garstang said flatly, “We didn’t get away quite fast enough. They’ll be barrelling in here after us and they’ll have us in range before we ever get through the channel.”
“As far as I can see,” said Birrel, “we’ve only got one way out of it.”
He looked up at the screens again, at the vast glow of the nebula overhead.
Garstang was silent for a moment. Then he said, “I hoped you wouldn’t think of that.”

Battle for the Stars
New York : Paperback Library, 1967. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Paperback Library ; 52-609)
(Science Fiction Series) pbk $0.5
NUC70-71455; LCCN61-15300
“In a galaxy gone wild, Earth’s fate depended on one man and one spaceship” — Cover
Cluster World N-356-44
“It was no place for a man to be. Men were tissue, blood, bone, nerve. This place was not made for them. It was made for force and radiation. Go home, men.
But I can’t thought Jay Birrel. Not yet … I have to go on into this place where a human being looks as pathetic as an insect in a furnace”
And so begins Edmond Hamilton’s most fascinating inter-planetary adventure – Battle for the Stars.

Battle for the Stars
New York : Paperback Library, 1964.8. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Paperback Library ; 52-311) pbk. $0.50
NUC70-71455
“In a galaxy gone wild, Earth’s fate depended on one man and one spaceship” — Cover
Cluster World N-356-44
“It was no place for a man to be. Men were tissue, blood, bone, nerve. This place was not made for them. It was made for force and radiation. Go home, men.
But I can’t thought Jay Birrel. Not yet … I have to go on into this place where a human being looks as pathetic as an insect in a furnace”
And so begins Edmond Hamilton’s most fascinating inter-planetary adventure – Battle for the Stars.

Battle for the Stars (Book Club Edition)
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1961.12. –
iv, 206 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 61-15300
Note: “BOOK CLUB/EDITION” at the lower right corner of the front flap of the original, first printing dust jacket is unclipped. — Currey
Note: Has printing code “4” on page 192 — Currey
“Time is the great deceiver, science fiction writers, who probe the future, are really writing historical novels of what will soon be the past.”
Now that both the United States and Russia have put an astronaut in space novel like this fascinating tale by Edmond Hamilton are as topical as they are gripping. In this story we see the descendants of the first astronauts celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first space flight from the “ancient planet” Earth. Jay Birrel, Captain of a squadron of space ships from Lyra constellation, is there with his lovely wife Lyllin, who was born on Vega. Alson present is Ferdias, Governor of Lyra, and Tausner, top agent of constellation Orion.
Jay and Lyllin, just back from a harrowing experience on a planet in cluster N-356-44, where they discovered that Orion is plotting against Lyra, are amazed and intrigued by the quaint, old-fashioned character of the planet from which all humanity came. They are living in an old farm house, north of New York City, when they discover that the Orion faction is plotting again. Before long Jay finds himself involved in a mighty battle between Lyra and Orion in which the courageous but ill-equipped natives of Earth fight beside the astronauts of Lyra to save the independence of the Home Planet.
Once again Edmond Hamilton has written a novel that holds the reader by its vivid characterization and its terse narrative style as well as by its imaginative exploration of the future that is now just around the corner.