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ppint. 27th Jun 2024		Book P. D. James - Death Comes To Pemberley	faber & faber h/cvr first printing, first or simultaneous first edition typeset by faber & faber ltd. dedication: to joyce mclennan friend and personal assistant who has typed my novels for thirty-five years with affection and gratitude cover (d-j) art monochrome vignette by neil gower (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price £18.99 320pp. including (i -) x pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, perfectbound onto a flexible strip with deep red endpapers between black paper-covered boards, with title, author & faber & faber logo on spine in gold
ppint. 27th Jun 2024		Book Derek Tangye - Went The Day Well	author field should^W has been varied to "editor"
ppint. 27th Jun 2024		Book Derek Tangye - Went The Day Well	"went the day well? we died and never knew. but, well or ill, freedom, we died for you."
ppint. 27th Jun 2024		Book Derek Tangye - Went The Day Well	the penguin group ltd. michael joseph imprint reissue first printing adds new 1p. foreword by the editor cover (d-j) art photographic banner in chief by courtesy of the trustees of the imperial war museum cover (d-j) price £14.99, $35.00 canada 256pp. including (i -) x pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 2 blank end pp, perfectbound onto a flexible strip with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, title, author & publisher below publisher's logo on spine in gold all royalties to the star & garter home for disabled sailors, soldiers & airmen registered charity number 210119
ppint. 27th Jun 2024		Book Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders	it matters on bookcat because the various editions of the same book are listed as different editions of different books if the form of the title differs - - unless the "english title" field is used to combine them; which ordinary mortals can't achieve other than by submitting a correction, once an edition's been added.
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book Agatha Christie - The A B C Murders	a hercule poirot detective fiction story that turns into a railway race against time before the perpetrator commits his fourth murder, which he has evidently already time-tabled - to the minute. . .
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book Agatha Christie - The A B C Murders	harpercollinspublishers b format p/b first printing, definitely not first uk p/b edition refer to indicia printing number to distinguish between printings: it's immediately below the line "this paperback edition 2018" but is not dated, nor actually stated to be the printing number; highest printing number of this edition i've seen so far is 4 cover art photographic composition by charlie grey, ben blackall (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £8.99 272pp. including (i -) vi pp. titles, indicia nf-within-f foreword overtly by captain arthur hastings, o. b. e., etc.
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book Richard Ingrams - The Best Of 'Dear Bill'	collecting the 'dear bill' fortnightly letters bottled chateau st. denis 18 may 1979 - 1 june 1985
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book Richard Ingrams - The Best Of 'Dear Bill'	andre deutsch/private eye h/cvr first printing, first edition sub-title appears on front cover only cover art photographic by john lawrence jones of fluck and law's "spitting image" denis thatcher puppet b+w illustrations by brian bagnall cover price £7.95 272pp. including 5pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 blank end pp, perfectbound onto a flexible strip with endpapers, between laminated boards
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book George Herbert - A Choice Of George Herbert's Verse	george herbert 4/1593 - 1633
ppint. 26th Jun 2024		Book George Herbert - A Choice Of George Herbert's Verse	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) tp/b first printing, first edition reprinted 1969, 1972, 1979 and 1981 69 poems by george herbert selected and introduced by r. s. thomas cover art unsigned, uncredited reproduction in red on white of an engraving presumably of the author cover price £1.95 96pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, 10½pp. introduction etc, 4 end pp: 3pp. index of first lines 1 blank page
ppint. 25th Jun 2024		Book Roy Lewis - What We Did To Father	aka "the evolution man" (penguin p/b 1963), q.v., (corgi p/b 1989, adds introduction by terry pratchett), q.v., aka "once upon an ice age" (berkley mmpb c.1968 iirc), q.v: p/b editions lack the embellishments by hewison :( translated at least once each into french, german, italian, and spanish, under various titles.
ppint. 24th Jun 2024		Book Laurence M. Janifer - The Final Fear	starbooks publications star books p/b cover art unsigned cover price 65¢, 25p uk (mayn't've seen uk trade distribution) 144pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 24th Jun 2024		Book Jean Vernon - The Secret Lives Of Garden Bees	pen and sword books ltd. white owl imprint large format pb first printing, simultaneous first edition simultaneous with h/cvr bind-up of the same signatures, isbn 1 52671 186 1 this book is dedicated to my wonderful mum, berry, who shared her love of nature and the beauty of all small things. dearly missed, but never forgotten. cover art by jon wilkinson (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £16.99 (u.s.$29.95) 192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, forward by brigit strowbridge howard 8/2020) etc, 1 blank end page
ppint. 24th Jun 2024		Book Patricia Wentworth - The Alington Inheritance	a miss silver mystery
ppint. 24th Jun 2024		Book Patricia Wentworth - The Alington Inheritance	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks division coronet books imprint first printing 1979 third impression 1981 first edition hodder & stoughton h/cvr 1960 cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic close-up of part of revolver, very old key on red rope cover price £1.10 224pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Jun 2024		Book Harlan Ellison - Over The Edge	thank-you, jimess.
ppint. 13th Jun 2024		Book C. J. Cherryh - Defiance	astra publishing house daw books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition to you, our readers, to our excellent surgeons and doctors, and to our very patient publisher and editor°, we respectfully dedicate this book, and a very special dedication to jane's brother, allen "chip" fancher, pilot extraordinaire, our technical advisor - clear skies forever, chip! ---c. j. cherryh ° - betsy wollheim cover (d-j) art by todd lockwood (signed © lockwood, credited & credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $28.00 usa \| $37.99 can(ada) near-meaningless daw books collector no.1697 368pp. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), two b+w maps (one line-drawn, one grayscale), 1 blank p; 3 end pp. appendix; perfectbound onto backing strip with endpapers between bright blue paper-covered boards; title, authors, daw logo in gold on spine
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book George MacDonald - The Princess And The Goblin	image 2292987: this is *still* not the 1967 first airmont books printing claimed in the notes: section: this is the second or a further subsequent airmont classics printing.
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire	indicia publishing history of the canadian-printed declared second printing states: pocket book edition published october, 1971 second printing ..... august, 1971 the canadian-printed "second printing" was intended for distribution north of the parallel
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire	pan macmillan pan books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b, first slightly shorter revised edition cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, uncredited; on geofftaylor-artist.com website) cover price 75p (overseas territories prices) 192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. author's note, 1p. advertising
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire	simon & schuster pocket books canadian mmpb "second printing" apparently first mmpb edition followed by merkin "first printing"; these may have been published simultaneously cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; his very distinctive style is recognisable) cover price 95¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising canadian-printed copies bear a small maple leaf cutout in the richard powers artwork on the front cover
ppint. 9th Jun 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Indoctrinaire	faber & faber (he + himself) h/cvr first printing, first edition cover art (unsigned restricted palette (red & black, title left white) of ear on a wall) cover price £1.40 228pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, a blank end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 8th Jun 2024		Book Jules Verne - A Journey To The Center Of The Earth	at least three near-identical printings with rising cover prices, not fully reported/recorded: the material copyright noted as ©1965 in the thomas bouregy/airmont books indicia is the forward by robert a. w. lowndes ("doc lowndes") 1965 cat# CL60 no sbn (not yet invented) cover price 50¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia,forward etc. ... (1972??) cat# CL60 cover price 75¢ ... (c.1979 ?) cat# CL60 (cover price liable to've been c.95¢-$1.25) ... 6/1982 cat# CL60 isbn 0-8049-0060-4 cover price $1.50 front & back cover images provided by oldmod67 above
ppint. 7th Jun 2024		Book Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers	random penguin group penguin first uk p/b printing first uk h/cvr edition random penguin group michael joseph imprint 2018 dedication: for kati. and for dad with lots of love from me cover art unsigned, uncredited other than images © getty images cover price £8.99 464p. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, 2pp. introductions, etc, 20 end pp. including acknowledgements, 3pp. interview, 1p. questions for discussion, 1p. how i created tranquilium house (nf) liane moriarty, 2pp. adverts, 8 blank pp. unexplained indicia printing number: from 001, rising through (at least) 020 which identifies the twentieth printing
ppint. 4th Jun 2024		Book Christopher De Hamel - Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts	random penguin group penguin books p/b first printing, probably first p/b edition first edition was published under allen lane, and this edition bears "an allen lane book" on back cover cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w frontispiece anonymous, reproduced from painting in the house of jean de navarre, paris c.1334 cover price £12.99, $27.99 can(ada) 656pp (640pp. including eight pages titles, indicia etc, plus 16pp. unnumbered colour plates section), 62 end pp: bibliographies and indices, 2 blank pp. unexplained indicia printing number: 001
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Ivan Howard - 6 And The Silent Scream	contents: ask a foolish question - robert sheckley (short story) science fiction stories #1, undated (6/1953) children of fortune - d. a. jourdan (novelette) science fiction quarterly vol.4 #6, 2/1957 peace on earth - irving e. cox, jr. (ntte) future vol.5 #1, 6/1954 riddle of the deadly paradise - frank belknap long (ntte) (the original) science fiction stories vol.9 #4, 11/1958; strato bre #7, both as by charles long vulcan's hammer - philip k. dick (novella) future #29, 4/1956 the ear-friend - r. e. banks (ntte) (magazine title later prefixed, ''the original...'') science fiction stories vol.5 #5, 3/1955
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Charles Willeford - The Machine In Ward Eleven	contents: the machine in ward eleven (novelette) playboy 3/1961 selected incidents (short story) (? 1962) a letter to a. a. (almost anybody) (ss) apparently original in this collection jake's journal (ntte) apparently original in this collection "just like on television -" (ss) apparently original in this collection the alectryomancer (ss) (? 1959)
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Richard Aldington - Death Of A Hero	states "the first complete and unabridged edition" on front cover.
ppint. 30th May 2024		Book Richard Aldington - Death Of A Hero	states "complete unabridged" (split by "penguin looking left" logo) on front cover.

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