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P & 20- Series

40-Series

40-300 & 41-Series

00-Series

6-digit Series

220800 -

New York, 1969 - 1973

Pinnacle Books was a spin-off of Bee-Line Books, which were published at that time by David Zentner.  It was successful enough to be bought up by a west Coast conglomerate.  

   (info by Kenneth R. Johnson)

And here's a lot more info from Grant Thiessen:

There were two sequences of Pinnacle books, the first of which was very confusing: the first sequence, (1970-1977) were first identified with the prefix ‘P’. NEXT, titles were identified on the front cover with a ’00’ replacing the ‘P’, still in the same sequence.

In the late 300’s, the front cover identification could be a variety of preceding numbers before the actual three digits of the sequence (see below). This numbering chaos also applied to later reprints of these books, where 00025 might replace P25. This was all part of the same sequence, and encompassed their first 1000 books. In reality, only the last three digits of each number is relative, and as a means of comparing cover styles, and subsequent reprints, the same title could have several different prefixes through the various reprints, with only the final three digits remaining the same in all cases.

Here are the various prefixes:

P = not a price indicator, used for the first 168 titles on 1st printings (highest number seen P168). However, the SUFFIX was a price indicator:

D = 1.50, N = .95, S = .75, Z = 1.25

00 and 1- = not a price indicator, used from 169 to the late 300’s, and scattered titles beyond, as well as reprints of the earlier numbers. The lowest number seen 00157 on a first printing, lower numbers on reprints

They then introduced these price indicators in the late 300’s

210xxx = .95
220xxx = 1.25
230xxx = 1.50
240xxx = 1.75
250xxx = 1.95

(A note from Bruce: Okay, that means these books are out of printing order in the BookScans website. They should be sorted by the last three digits in the book number, not the first. However, at least for now, I'm going to leave them in six-digit sequence to help viewers find pictures of the books they're look for more easily.)


After they reached 1000, they started a new sequence, beginning the numbers with ’40’, and did not use a price indicator.
 

Pinnacle remaindered some of their books to places like Wal-Mart. To prevent covers being returned for credit, they stamped a gold symbol across the price and numbering on the front cover.

(info by Grant Thiessen)

(Scan above Courtesy of Brian Maginnity)

This page was updated in July, 2022