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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 1st Oct 2024		Book Lin Carter - Dragonrouge	terra magical series #2: #1: "kesrick" (1982), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - City [complete]	octopus publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing, octopus having engulfed abp, essentially the second printing of the abp/methuen london 1988 edition, with new cover art (unsigned, uncredited) cover price £3.99 276pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - City [complete]	abp/methuen london first complete uk edition°, first printing thus cover art by nick rodgers (unsigned, credited on back cover as nick rogers) cover price £3.50 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus. ° - includes "epilog" (short story) in "the john w. campbell memorial anthology" eds. harry harrison, brian aldiss (1973) plus clifford simak's musing notes concerning the wisdom - or otherwise - of returning to a greatly loved series after so long a time.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Out Of Their Minds	abp/methuen london first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.50 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus. chris moore's covers art is not a copy of frank kelly freas' art for the daw mmpb, but would seem to owe at least a little to it, for the appealig/appalling figure. . .
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Out Of Their Minds	daw books simultaneous near-identical first printings, not first mmpb edition cover art by frank kelly freas (signed, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.514 cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing number line 123456789 cover price $2.95° canadian-carcased variant intended for distribution north of the parallel,; though published simultaneously, the indicia printing number line first printing, november 1980/23456789 identifies them as the second printing ° - the second letter of the cat# is not varied to reflect the different cover price
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Out Of Their Minds	may be the berkley medallion mmpb fourth printing, as an earlier printing is also stated to be the third.
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Book Joan D. Vinge - Eyes Of Amber And Other Stories	contents: eyes of amber (novelette) analog vol. xcvii #6, 6/1977; cover story, art by john schoenherr to bell the cat (ntte) iamsf vol.1 #2, summer/1977 view from a height (short story) analog vol. xcvii #6, 6/1978; cover story, art by ron miller media man (novella) analog vol. xcv #10, 10/1976; cover story, art by vincent difate, also two b+w difate illustrations the crystal ship (nlla) "the crystal ship" ed. robert silverberg (1976) tin soldier (nlla) "orbit 14" ed. damon knight (1974)
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Out Of Their Minds	dent/david & charles readers union science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover d-j art (unsigned, uncredited yellow & black composition including partial view of a human eye) cover d-j price (none, though the £1.60 price of the 1972 sidgwick & jackson uk h/cvr is noted) 188 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, perfect bound (check) with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Out Of Their Minds	the berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by herbert norton rogoff (signed, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 192 pp. including 4 unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc. refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing° which differs: adds line stating third printing° ° - this statement may have been erroneous, whether through the expected or actual appearance of a near-identical second printing, or the presumption of the existence of a canadian-carcased variant first printing, later accounted the second - or simple publishing office/printer's mistake; the berkley medallion 11/1975 mmpb cat# Z2997, q.v., bearing new cover art by richard powers is also stated to be the third berkley medallion mmpb in its indicia
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - Star Loot	rim worlds: john grimes #12: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for rim worlds, john grimes series listings, and links.
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - Star Loot	robert hale first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by jim cambridge (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £6.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - Matilda's Stepchildren	rim worlds; john grimes #11: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for rim worlds, john grimes etc. series listings & links.
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book Tanith Lee - The Silver Metal Lover	daw books mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, and hence also isbn, cat# and cover art by don maitz (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece by tanith lee (unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collectors no.476 cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing history line first daw printing, april 1982, number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 includes digit "1" cover price $2.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, indicia printing history line first daw printing, april 1982/23456789 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc., end pp. advertising though published simultaneously, the printing number line formally identifies the canadadian-carcassed variant as the second printing refer also to indicia to check where carcass of the copy held was printed
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book Tanith Lee - The Silver Metal Lover	unwin paperbacks orion imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by danny flynn (signed "dan", credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device	unwin paperbacks orion imprint b format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by fred gambino (may be signed hidden in-picture as a graffito, credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; aken from locus
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Book M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device	granada publishing panther books first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition cover art by peter (paj°) jones (unsigned, uncredited; collected in "solar wind" peter jones (1980), q.v. cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising cover bears the 9-digit sbn; ° - peter jones's signature may well be on the full painting.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - To Keep The Ship	rim worlds: john grimes #10: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for john grimes & rim worlds series listings and links.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - To Keep The Ship	daw books near-identical undated simultaneous 5/1983° third & fourth printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by h. r. van dongen (credited) (retained from daw books first edition) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph, uncredited) (also retained) near-meaningless daw books collectors number is dropped from the front cover cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed third printing, indicia printing history number-string, first printing, june 1978/3456789 cover price $2.95 canadian-carcased fourth printing intended for distribution north of the parallel, indicia printing history number-string, first printing, june 1978/456789 (second letter of cat# is not changed to reflect different cover price) 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - date of publication not given in the indicia, taken from sheldon jaffery, gordon benson & philip stephensen-payne
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Steve Frazee - The Sky Block	very approximately one to two thousand copies imported by thorpe & porter and distributed in the yuk-of-gb (?'n'norniron?) bearing a small blue teepee 1/9d price label with the figure "2" on the line-drawn teepee - i do not know whether this indicates the month of distribution.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Steve Frazee - The Sky Block	the 1955 bodley head h/cvr was apparently the first uk edition, but i've no record of ever having seen it.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Steve Frazee - The Sky Block	mayflower books mayflower dell imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art signed indecipherably (vertically upwards near lower fly corner), uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 2/6 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Steve Frazee - The Sky Block	lion library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by bob (robert) maguire cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Dwight V. Swain - The Transposed Man	"serialized" in thrilling wonder stories vol. xliii #1, 11/1953, with two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay thrilling wonder stories pembertons bre #102, 1/1954; may not include virgil finlay's illustrations
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Book Andrew J. Offutt - Conan And The Sorcerer	grosset & dunlap charter communications sunridge press tp/b first printing, first edition later accounted their first p/b printing in the first mmpb printing over-all by ace°, which is stated to be the second p/b printing cover art by sanjulian (credited) b+w interior illustrations by esteban maroto (credited on back cover) cover price $5.95 (well, actually states u.s.a. 0005.95 canada 0005.95) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. ° - this sunridge press tp/b bears a grosset & dunlap/charter communications isbn, 0-441-11683-3; the cat# is in the ace books five-digit cat# system: so it'd appear sunridge press was a grosset & dunlap group (including ace books after their purchase by grosset & dunlap) imprint, was considered equivalent to being an ace imprint, and which later likely became an putnam / berkley publishing group imprint.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book Edmond Hamilton - The Valley Of Creation	"serialized" in startling stories vol.17 #3, 7/1948 with four b+w illustrations by virgil finlay
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book L. Sprague De Camp - The Goblin Tower	the reluctant king trilogy #1: #1: ''the goblin tower'' (1968), (this novel) #2: "the clocks of iraz" (1971), q.v. #3: "the unbeheaded king" (1983), q.v.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book Terri Windling - Borderland	#1 in the borderlands original anthology series: #1-#4 edited by terri windling, #1 & #2 with mark alan arnold, #4 with delia sherman: #5 edited by holly black, ellen kushner: #1: "borderlands" (1986), (this anthology) #2: "bordertown" (1986), q.v. #3: "life on the border" (1991), q.v. #4: "the essential bordertown" (1998), q.v. #5: "welcome to bordertown" (2011), q.v.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book Terri Windling - Borderland	the introduction by farrel din is non-fictional within the fantasy of borderlands - as indeed is farrel din.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book A. Bertram Chandler - The Rim Of Space	concerning bookcat's cataloguing of ace books - yes, it's a mess: or possibly several superimposed messes: ace - 1302 "bookcat items" ace books - 191 items ace charter - 11 items ace fantasy books - 7 items ace science fiction - 16 items ace star - 4 items charter - 22 items charter communications, inc. - 3 items sunridge press - 3 items, a charter communications imprint appears quite closely associated with ace mason/charter - 2 items, may or may not be connected charter uk - 1 item, rather murky background; may be an entirely illegal publication. it bears an 0-425- berkley block isbn, a uk price on the front cover, one copy only known, apparently, bought in texas. (excluding ace books ltd. which was an unconnected uk publisher, and the ace/stoneshire imprint whose origins, existence and disappearance are, to put it mildly, shadowy - but appear to be british.) (also excluding new infinities books, gary gygax's publishing co. whose mmpbs were distributed by ace / the berkley publishing group and bore 0-441- ace, ace charter, charter block isbns, also excluding the iron crown tolkienquest/merpquest gamebooks distributed by ace/berkley, and definitely excluding prestige & ace/prestige titles, which are a whole other complication, being part of the extremely messy collapse and bankruptcy of lancer books and its aftermath.) ace books, later the ace imprint, timeline: 1953 - 1969/70 ace books set up & owned by a. a. wynn, ace books inc. 1969/70 - ?1971? ace books, charter communications, inc. who also publish charter books, ace/charter books, and own other imprints and possibly also own other publishers. charter communications, inc. run out of cash, and ran out of any credibility with authors and agents. ?1971? - 1983 publishers grosset & dunlap, inc. buy charter communications, inc. and ace books, possibly simultaneously (likeliest), eventually straighten out certain accounting problems that have come to light, turn it around, continue ace books as a profitable and properly-run publishers 1983 the berkley publishing group (or putnam-berkley publishing group) buy ace books or grosset & dunlap publishing including the ace imprint 1996 penguin or random penguin buy the putnam / berkley publishing group, including the ace imprint 2013 random house and penguin merge to become random penguin or similar, which since some time in 2020 has been wholly owned by the bertelsmann multinationalmegaconglomerate.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Book Leigh Brackett - The Sword Of Rhiannon	Rated 10/10 this is the edition first read by yr hmbl srppnt. sometime in the early-to-mid sixties, when my elder bother° borrowed it from church end public library, and the sub-teenage me glommed onto it, devoured it, and has never forgotten it since - despite having only had time to read it the once before he returned it - and couldn't remember the author, its title - nor even having read the book from my memory of the key word, ''rhiannon'', detailed description of the set-up, and the bones of the story! ° - the russian for ''brother'' is ''brat'' - and rightly so! a superb, technically "sub-burroughsian", "planet stories"-style exotic science fiction adventure story, a true gem of its kind, with the accent almost as heavily upon the powerfully exotic setting, as upon the adventure that pits matthew carse, a low-life chancer of a man, a would-be tomb-robber, against an actual, veritable god - and against the cruel, conscienceless saurian race that rules their thalassocracy on mars of yore - exercising their dominion over all other races - including lowly humanity - upon the planet through their fawning worship of this god, and their apparent obedience of him, and his kin, and studying his technological teachings, and wielding the great powers they gain thereby without any shred of compassion, no achilles heel of any inclination towards mercy - thousands of years before our would-be tomb-robber was born. . . - against such inhuman and uncaring, overbearing and unfeelingly callously cruel overlords, what chance does one, very far from heroic - let alone perfect - and utterly out of his depth chancer-on-the-run have ? - this gripped the young ppint.'s imagination, as it has enthralled so many readers in the decades since first it saw the light of day. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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