ppint. 25th May 2024 | | BookKurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle | dell's mmpb cat# remained 1149 for many printings, through the beginnings of a renumbering that eventually turned into adopting the extension of the uk sbn system into the isbn system - isbn10 numbers each ending with the checksum digit.
non-systematic numbers on the spines of some printings include 440-01149-125 where the final element is the merkin cover price in cents.
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ppint. 25th May 2024 | | BookKurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle | cover art by murray tinkelman (unsigned, retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing where credited)
cat# 11149 essentially retained from 9/1965 first dell mmpb printing cat# 1149
cover price u.s. $3.25, can(ada) $3.95
192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange | almost all mmpbs follow this, not the full contents of the doubleday first edition & book club editions, until the hamlyn paperbacks uk p/b & the daw mmpb 1978 editions, which are complete.
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange | publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Touch Of Strange | contents:
mr costello, hero (novelette) galaxy vol.7 #3, 12/1953; galaxy strato bre #14, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
the touch of your hand (novella) galaxy vol.6 #6, 9/1953; galaxy strato bre vol.3 #11, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller
affair with a green monkey (short story) venture vol.1 #3, 5/1957
a crime for llewellyn (ss) mike shayne mystery magazine 10/1957
it opens the sky (nlla) venture vol.1 #6, 9/1957, the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, with one b+w illustration by john giunta; venture atlas bre #9, 5/1964
a touch of strange (ss) f&sf vol.14 #1, 1/1958; venture atlas bre #20, 4/1965
the other celia (ss) galaxy vol.13 #5, 3/1957; galaxy strato bre #50, both: with one b+w illustration by diane dillon, leo dillon
the pod in the barrier (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #5, 9/1957 with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood; galaxy strato bre #56, 11/1957 with one b+w illustration by wallace wood
the girl had guts (ntte) venture vol.1 #1, 1/1957 with one b+w illustration by john giunta
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep | publisher should be corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group name, nor the ultimate corporate owner
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ppint. 8th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep | almost certainly scheduled and in production when macfadden books (and the larger macfadden-bartell corporation too?) were taken over and turned into manor books.
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ppint. 7th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air | daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition
cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.50
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 291
176 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1978 and both bear full first printing number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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ppint. 7th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Warlord Of The Air | shares the merkin-printed covers of the daw books, inc. mmpb first printing
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths | elric series #1.5:
#1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Woods Of Arcady | the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #2:
#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Whispering Swarm | the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #1:
#1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), (this book)
#2: "the woods of arcady" (2023), q.v.
#3: "the wounds of albion" (nyp)
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookDean R. Koontz - The Long Sleep | popular library mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by jack faragasso (signed)
445-00325-125 number-string on cover is not an (i)sbn
cover price $1.25
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookDamon Knight - In Deep | manor books mmpb first printing, not first merkin mmpb edition
cover art by jack faragasso (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
2/1973; near-identical manor books mmpb second printing differs:
drops the mb logo from fly top corner of front cover,
adds manor books in small black type vertically on two lines before the author's name
cat# 75444 (i.e. drops the hyphen)
indicia publishing history adds two lines:
first printing. . . . august, 1972
second printing . . . . february, 1973
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookChristopher Priest - Inverted World | * - check if my faber h/cvr includes andrew stephenson's illustrations
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookGail Kimberly - Flyer | art is for sale on ixgallery.com
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ppint. 6th May 2024 | | BookJames P. Fisher - The Great Brain Robbery | belmont publications belmont mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by jack faragasso (signed faragasso bottom edge or guillotined off, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
160pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp: 2 blank, 3 advertising, 1 mail-order form
number-string 505-2072-075 on spine (nor sbn, nor isbn; last 3 digit element is cover price)
date of printing nor publication given, copyright date year ©1970 taken as date of publication
cover art was for sale (now sold) on ixgallery.com, faragasso's signature is clearly visible
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ppint. 5th May 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumVanilla Fudge - Star Collection | this was distributed to perfectly ordinary record/music shops in the uk, which is where yr hmbl srppnt. bought their copy; they also carried other "midi" label albums.
i do not know whether all of the midi label releases were distributed by wea (kinney, etc.) in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni (& the republic of ireland?), though.
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ppint. 5th May 2024 | | BookG. McDonald Wallis - The Light Of Lilith | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by ed emshwiller (signed, uncredited)
cover price 40¢
½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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ppint. 5th May 2024 | | BookGeorge O. Smith - Fire In The Heavens | half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover price 35¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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ppint. 3rd May 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumPink Floyd - BBC 1967 | "mono" i'll believe - but "45rpm" - ?
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ppint. 3rd May 2024 | | BookJohn Lymington - Froomb! | macfadden books mmpb second printing, with new
cover art by jack faragasso
cover price 75¢
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookAnthony Powell - Books Do Furnish A Room | a dance to the music of time duodecology #10:
#1: "a question of upbringing" (1951), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookAnthony Powell - The Valley Of Bones | a dance to the music of time duodecology #7:
#1: "a question of upbringing" (1951), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookAnthony Powell - The Acceptance World | a dance to the music of time duodecology #3:
#1: "a question of upbringing" (1951), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookAnthony Powell - A Question Of Upbringing | a dance to the music of time duodecology #1:
#1: "a question of upbringing" (1951), (this novel)
#2: "a buyer's market" (1952), q.v.
#3: "the acceptance world" (1955), q.v.
#4: "at lady molly's" (1957), q.v.
#5: "casanova's chinese restaurant" (1960), q.v.
#6: "the kindly ones" (1962), q.v.
#7: "the valley of bones" (1964), q.v.
#8: "the soldier's art" (1966), q.v.
#9: "the military philosophers" (1968), q.v.
#10: "books do furnish a room" (1971), q.v.
#11: "temporary kings" (1973), q.v.
#12: "hearing secret harmonies" (1975), q.v.
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookDan Jones - Powers And Thrones | barcode number truncated by too-small field: 978178954354490200
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ppint. 2nd May 2024 | | BookDan Jones - Powers And Thrones | bloomsbury publishing plc head of zeus ltd. p/b first printing, first p/b edition
head of zeus logo on spine, title page; but stated below title page log:: an apollo book.
no other reference to apollo including in the indicia.
head of zeus ltd. editorial address: 5-8 hardwick street london ec1r 4rg is distinct from that of the owning bloomsbury publishing plc, which is not given.
dedication: for anthony, who thinks of everything
cover art (none: typographical cover)
b+w maps by jamie whyte (unsigned, credited)
cover price £12.99
744pp. including twelve (two unnumbered, ten (i-) x(!)) pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 69 end pp: 29pp. notes, 17pp. bibliography, 1p. picture credits, 18pp. index, 1p. note on dan jones, 3 blank pp., and three unnumbered, unpaginated eight page colour photographic sections, between pp.180/181, pp.324/325, & pp. 516/51
refer to indicia publishing history to see what number printing is held: 97531(0)2468 = first printing (the 0 is optional), 97532468 = second printing, 9753468 = third printing,975468 = fourth printing, etc, etc
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ppint. 1st May 2024 | | BookRobert Don Hughes - The Faithful Traitor | barcode number truncated by too-small field: 070999-00399-3-36090
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ppint. 1st May 2024 | | BookRobert Don Hughes - The Forging Of The Dragon | barcode number truncated by too-small field: 070999-00395-5-33744
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