Notes
Editions prior to the 1990 edition were subtitled "Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965"; the later revised editions were subtitled "Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1960-1965".
- No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
- The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1988), the ISBN (0-87795-947-1), and the LCCN: 87-27205. There is no record for this LCCN on the LoC website, and this edition is not listed by LCCN. The LCCN number shown below is for the 1993 "Masquerade" edition.
- Month of publication from the date code "388" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- "Jacket design by Thomas Canty" (over) "Painting for jacket illustration 'Samuel R. Delany Writing: "We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line",' Rifton, NY, 1967, by Jack Gaughan" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- The uncredited photograph of the author on page x was the basis for the cover design of the expanded Paladin edition, where it is credited to photographer Bernard Kay.
- "The Peripheries of Love" is a 300-page memoir, divided into 85 sections, most of which have been divided further into subsections. This numbering system has no correspondence with that used in the expanded 1990 Paladin edition.
