ppint. ● 14th Jul 2024 | | BookS. M. Stirling - The Stone Dogs | draka series (originally a trilogy) #3:
#1: ''marching through georgia'' (1988), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 14th Jul 2024 | | BookLesley Grant-Adamson - Lipstick And Lies | hodder headline plc hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition
dedication: for alisoun gort
cover (d-j) art (unsigned monochrome red & black photographic, uncredited in indicia)
cover (d-j) price £16.99
272pp. (check, reference copy has library part-laminated boards incorporating the d-j) including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between red cloth-covered boards
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - City Of The Chasch | daw books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed, uncredited)
2pp. b+w map of tschai (unsigned, uncredited: reprinted from the ace books mmpb edition)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.339
cover price $1.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $1.75 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution)
160pp. including titles, indicia , b+w map etc.
refer to indicia publishing history to see if the carcass of the copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1979/123456789
and to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing, which drops the first two digits from the printing number line, was wholly merkin-printed, and bears
cover price (? not as yet seen/seen reported: probably $1.75)
some copies of this bear a lengthways oval white sticker printed in black stating $1.95 price in canada
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ppint. ● 9th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - The Pnume | planet of adventure or tschai tetralogy #4:
#1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. ● 9th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Servants Of The Wankh | planet of adventure #2:
aka "wankh", aka "the wannek", qq.v.
#1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Trullion: Alastor 2262 | alastor cluster #1, a novel of the gaean reach:
#1: ''trullion: alastor 2262'' (1973), (this book)
#2: "marune: alastor 933" (1975), q.v.
#3: "wyst: alastor 1716" (1978), q.v.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Trullion: Alastor 2262 | alastor cluster #1:
#1: "trullion: alastor 2262" (1973), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Wyst: Alastor 1716 | alastor cluster #3:
#1: "trullion: alastor 2262" (1973), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - City Of The Chasch | the planet of adventure, aka "tschai", aka "tschai, the planet of adventure" tetralogy #1:
#1: "city of the chasch" (this novel), aka "(the) chasch" (1986), q.v.
#2: "servants of the wankh" (1969), q.v., aka "wankh" (1986), aka "the wannek" (2006), qq.v.
#3: "the dirdir" (1969), q.v.
#4: "the pnume" (1970), q.v.
omnibus edition of the tetralogy:
#O: "planet of adventure" (1985 uk), q.v.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJack Vance - The Dirdir | planet of adventure #3:
#1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookJohn Wyndham - The Outward Urge | contents:
the space-station: A.D. 1994 (novelette) new worlds #70, 4/1958 as ''for all the night''; fantastic vol.7 #11, 11/1958 as ''the troons of space''
the moon: A.D. 2044 (ntte) new worlds #72, 6/1958 as ''idiot's delight''; fantastic vol.7 #12, 12/1958 as ''the troons of space - A.D. 2044''
mars: A.D. 2094 (ntte) new worlds #73, 7/1958 as ''the thin gnat-voices''; fantastic vol. 8 #1, 1/1959 as ''the troons of space - mars A.D. 2094''
venus: A.D. 2144 (ntte) new worlds #75, 9/1958 as ''space is a province of brazil''; fantastic vol. 8 #2, 2/1959 as ''the troops of space - venus A.D. 2144''
the emptiness of space: the asteroids A.D. 2194 (short story) new worlds #100, 11/1960; amazing vol.35 #1, 1/1961
''the emptiness of space'' had the date added in amazing and ''the asteroids'' added for book publication
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Wings Of Flame | arrow books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited sfair
cover price £2.95 (overseas territories prices)
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Godbond | sea king trilogy #3:
#1: "madbond" (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Mindbond | sea king trilogy #2:
#1: "madbond" (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Godbond | macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £3.50, ($? australia, $? new zealand - scratched out)
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 7th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Mindbond | macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £3.50, ($? australia, $? new zealand - scratched out)
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 6th Jul 2024 | | BookLarry Niven - Fleet Of Worlds | known space collaborative spin-off series #1:
by larry niven, edward m. lerner:
2#1: "fleet of worlds" (2007), (this novel)
2#2: "juggler of worlds" (2008), q.v.
2#3: "destroyer of worlds" (2009), q.v.
2#4: "betrayer of worlds" (2010), q.v.
2#5: "fate of worlds: return from the ringworld" (2012), q.v.
see known space core collection for full series listing, and links:
#C1: "neutron star" (1969), q.v.
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ppint. ● 6th Jul 2024 | | BookLarry Niven - Fleet Of Worlds | thomas doherty associates tor imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by stephen martiniere (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price $7.99 ($9.99 can(adian))
320pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp; 1p. advertising between 2 blank pp.
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ppint. ● 5th Jul 2024 | | BookErskine Childers - The Riddle Of The Sands | grove atlantic ltd. atlantic books imprint b format p/b first printing
crime classics series
cover art by gradiate (unsigned line-drawn representation of a chart detail, credited on back cover)
cover price £7.99
368pp. including twenty unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), 8 pp. four b+w maps etc, 25 end pp: 1 p. blank, 15pp. case notes (nf) professor robert giddings, 9 blank pp.
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ppint. ● 4th Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Madbond | sea king trilogy #1:
#1: "madbond" (1987), this novel
#2: "mindbond" (1987), q.v.
#3: "godbond" (1988), q.v.
omnibus of #1, #2 & #3:
#O: "sea king trilogy" (2018), q.v.
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ppint. ● 4th Jul 2024 | | BookRobert Foster - A Guide To Middle Earth | mirage press limited edition 1250 unnumbered tp/b 1971
card-covered edition of the h/cvr sewn signatures
anthem series
cover (d-j) art by tim kirk (signed, credited on d-j back flap)
cover(d-j) price $3.75
320pp. (i-) xiii titles, introduction, concordance° etc, 1 blank p, 13 end pp: 1p. statement of limitation, statement of printing & publication of trade p/b bind-up, blank pp;
sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between card covers
° - identifies and correlates page references in the ballantine mmpb and the houghton miflin revised h/cvr merkin editions of the three separately-published volumes
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ppint. ● 4th Jul 2024 | | BookRobert Foster - A Guide To Middle Earth | mirage press limited edition 1500 numbered h/cvrs published in two batches of 750, 4 & 11/1971
voyager series
cover (d-j) art by tim kirk (signed, credited on d-j back flap)
cover(d-j) price $6.95
320pp. (i-) xiii titles, introduction, concordance° etc, 1 blank p, 13 end pp: 1p. statement of limitation, limited edition copy number, statement of printing & publication of trade p/b bind-up, six blank pp;
sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, title , author & publisher blocked in gold on spine
° - identifies and correlates page references in the ballantine mmpb and the houghton miflin revised h/cvr merkin editions of the three separately-published volumes
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ppint. ● 4th Jul 2024 | | BookCharles Williams - The Concrete Flamingo | aka and originally "all the way" dell mmpb (1958), q.v.
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ppint. ● 4th Jul 2024 | | BookCharles Williams - Dead Calm | first published by viking (h/cvr 1963) so first publication year is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1963
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ppint. ● 3rd Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Madbond | macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia, $12.99 new zealand
216pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia etc, 5 end pp: 3pp. glossary, 1p. mail-order data, 1p. advertisement for interzone
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ppint. ● 3rd Jul 2024 | | BookNancy Springer - Chains Of Gold | macdonald & co. futura publications p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
first uk publication in h/cvr by macdonald & co. (publishers) (1987), q.v.
cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly geoff taylor, on stylistic grounds; not "an attribution")
cover price £2.95, $9.95 australia, $14.99 new zealand
240pp. including four unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 3rd Jul 2024 | | BookDuncan Kyle - Terror's Cradle | fontana/collins p/b seventh impression so stated
first published in h/cvr by collins (1975), q.v.
first published in fontana p/b edition 1976
dedication: this one for robert with my thanks
cover art by peter elson (signed with his pe in a line-drawn box, uncredited)
cover price £1.95
224pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
© 1974 robert crew ltd.
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ppint. ● 3rd Jul 2024 | | BookRobert Tralins - The Cosmozoids | tower books mmpb simultaneous first printings, stated second printing as accounting included the belmont mmpb first edition, tower publications having taken over belmont publications
a big t science fiction
cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly by jack faragasso?)
cover price 60¢
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin-printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state (p) 1966, 1969
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ppint. ● 3rd Jul 2024 | | BookGerald Griffin - The Collegians | grove atlantic ltd. atlantic books imprint b format p/b first printing
crime classics series
cover art by sean freeman (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £7.99
496pp. including ten unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 18 end pp: 11pp. case notes (nf) professor robert giddings, 7 blank pp.
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ppint. ● 2nd Jul 2024 | | BookDonna Leon - Venezianisches Finale | english title is^W was slightly wrong and should^W has been corrected to "death at la fenice"
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