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ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Faithful Traitor	wizard and dragon trilogy #2: #1: "the forging of the dragon" (1989), q.v. prequel trilogy to the pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy #1: "the prophet of lamath" (1979), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Forging Of The Dragon	wizard and dragon trilogy 2#1: 2#2: "the faithful traitor" (1992) q.v. prequel trilogy to the pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy 1#1: " the prophet of lamath" (1979) q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Wizard In Waiting	pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy #2: #1: ''the prophet of lamath'' (1979), q.v. for series listings, and links.
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Power And The Prophet	pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper trilogy #3: #1: ''the prophet of lamath'' (1979), q.v. for series listings, and links.
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Power And The Prophet	wm. collins sons fontana books first printing, first uk edition dedication: for my parents, who pointed me to the power cover art unsigned, uncredited (?geoff taylor, i think, but this is not an attribution) cover price £2.95, australia $9.95, new zealand $12.95 352pp. including 8 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, map etc, 5 end pp: 1 blank p., 4pp. advertising: 1p. the three books of the winter king's war trilogy by susan dexter, 1p. stephen depressing donaldson's first two interminable trilogies, 1p. national book tokens, 1p. random fontana fiction p/bs barcode number truncated by too-small field: 97800617345800295
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Wizard In Waiting	wm. collins sons fontana books first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited (?geoff taylor, i think, but this is not an attribution) cover price £2.95, australia $9.95, new zealand $12.95 368pp. (check) including 6 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, map etc, end pp. advertising barcode number truncated by too-small field: 97800617344100295
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Robert Don Hughes - The Prophet Of Lamath	pelman the prophet / pelman the powershaper #1: #1: "the prophet of lamath" (1979) (this novel) #2: "the wizard in waiting" (1982), q.v. #3: "the power and the prophet" (1985), q.v. followed in publication by the prequal wizard and the dragon trilogy: 2#1: "the forging of the dragon" (1989), q.v. 2#2: "the faithful traitor" (1992), q.v. 2#3: "- ? -" (2#3 was completed (very late) by the author, but was rejected by ballantine's by-then del rey fantasy series editor; iirc it was eventually published, or announced as to be published by another publisher in tp/b, but i have not seen this.)
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book George MacDonald Fraser - The Complete Mcauslan	barcode number truncated by too-small field: 978000651371100999>
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book John Lewis-Stempel - Nightwalking	doubleday imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition doubleday stated on title page, doubleday logo on d-j spine, spine & title page transworld publishers stated in chief upon indicia page, as a wing of the random penguin group, penguin random house uk stated first published in great britain in 2022 by bantam an imprint of transworld publishers in indicia cover (d-j) art beci kelly/tw (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price £9.99 128pp. including fourteen unnumbered, unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 40 end pp: epilogue: "bright lights, dark skies" 10pp., a nightwalker's glossary 6pp., blank p., credits 2pp., brief note on the author, advertisements for other titles in this series 7pp., 3 blank pages; pefectbound with light blue endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards, title, author & doubleday logo on spine in silver
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book John Lewis-Stempel - The Sheep's Tale	penguin books imprint first printing, first p/b edition penguin books stated on title page, penguin logo on front cover, spine & title page transworld publishers stated in chief upon indicia page, as a wing of the random penguin group, penguin random house uk dedication: this one is for the sheep. every day is better because of them. (as first line upon the acknowledgements page, unnumbered p.179 cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £9.99 192pp. including ten unnumbered, unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 40 end pp: appendix "some native breeds of sheep..." 18pp., glossary 10pp., bibliography 8pp., acknowledgements, blank p, brief note on the author, advertisement for "nightwalking" by john lewis-stempel
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon & Other Macabre Tales	contents: introduction (nf) august derleth complete chronology (nf) h. p. lovecraft dagon the tomb polaris beyond the wall of sleep the doom that came to sarnath the white ship arthur jermyn (as "the white ape" 1921) the cats of ulthar celephais (as "celephaïs" 1922) from beyond the temple the tree the moon-bog the nameless city the other gods the quest of iranon herbert west--reanimator (novelette) (serialised as "herbert west: reanimator" 1942-3; serialised in fanzine as "grewsome tales" 1922) the hound hypnos the lurking fear (novelette) the festival the unnamable imprisoned with the pharaohs (novelette) he the horror at red hook (novelette) the strange high house in the mist in the walls of eryx (novelette; written with kenneth sterling) the evil clergyman early tales (nf) august derleth: the beast in the cave the alchemist poetry and the gods (written with anna helen crofts) the street the transition of juan romero four fragments (nf) august derleth: azathoth the descendant the book the thing in the moonlight supernatural horror in literature (nf) h. p. lovecraft (27/10/2021: original publication details of the stories to follow in some dim, distant and twisted year...)
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon & Other Macabre Tales	title is^W was slightly but significantly wrong and should^W has at last been corrected: the first word in the title should^W be^W now is "dagon" (and not " dragon ") - as per the title of the very first story contained therein. . .
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Andre Norton - The Beast Master	ace books mmpb first printing, first thus: ace books' abridged edition of this novel half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by ed valigursky (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from ace image library) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with "star hunter" also by andré norton (1961), q.v.
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book Christopher Priest - Darkening Island	manor books first printing, first mmpb edition, not first p/b edition aka and originally "fugue for a darkening island" (1972), q.v. cover art by j. friere (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 192pp. including six unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, 1 end p. advertising
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book John Lymington - The Year Dot	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition dedication: this small satire is for my sons: the reverend david b.a., priest in the diocese of canterbury; cadet richard, in the royal navy at dartmouth; simon john, at school in cornwall. they all liked the idea, but i hope they never see it happen. john newton chance, sometimes john lymington, cornwall december, 1971 cover (d-j) art by jefferson godwin (unsigned, credited for design on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £1.80 (from an abe books seller; obscured on copy seen, at top of front flap) 192pp. including eight unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 1st May 2024		Book John Lymington - Froomb!	the acronymphomaniacal title's expansion is "fluid's running out of my brakes!" if fluid is running out of your brakes, you have either just driven a vehicle equipped with brake drum (+ brake shoes) through liquid - hopefully water - deep enough to flood them, in which case it would be highly advisible to wait until it has ceased to flow - - and even then, to drive extremely carefully and defensively, testing and re-testing said brakes fairly frequently for their returning effectiveness, or continued lack thereof - - or else you've just managed to raise the temperature of your vehicle's disc brakes' discs and/or disc pads above the melting point of the steel alloy from which they're made; in which case you should probably evacuate your vehicle fairly soon. . .
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book John Lymington - Starseed On Eye Moor	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by lee noel (attributed in article in "the science fiction encyclopedia" online) cover (d-j) price £3.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between blue covered boards, title, author, h&s stylised chess king logo on spine in gold
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Keith Laumer - A Plague Of Demons	hodder & stoughton coronet books first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by lee noel (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in "the tourists guide to transylvania" stewart cowley (1981) entitled "minor demons") cover price 60p, $1.95 australia, $1.95 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Keith Laumer - A Plague Of Demons	millington books first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition cover (d-j) art by w. f. phillipps (signed) cover (d-j) price £2.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Keith Laumer - A Plague Of Demons	10/1975 warner books mmpb simultaneous first printings, accounted the third printing, sharing merkin-printed covers in redesigned cover with warner logo, bearing new cat# 86-001 isbn 0-446-86001-8 cover art by davis meltzer (signed, uncredited; retained from previous paperback library mmpb printings) cover price $1.25 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state third printing: october, 1975
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joseph C. Stinson - Sudden Impact	liable also to exist as near-identical canadian-carcased variant printing sharing merkin-printed covers° isbn 0-446-32204-0 (canada) cover price ($3.75 can(ada)) $2.95 usa 224pp. including titles, indicia etc,end pp. advertising ° - refer to indicia printing history to see if a canadian- or merkin- printed carcassed copy is held; no priority established nor liable to be.
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - The Witch Of Clatteringshaws	the thirteenth and last of her good king james III alternate history novels, #11 in the series (them including a prequel, and an associated, but non-series novel): #1: ''the whispering mountain'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, etc, and links.
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - A Creepy Company	contents: dead man's lane (original to this collection) the end of silence (''a quiver of ghosts'' ed. aidan chambers (1987)) my disability (original to this collection) toomie (original to this collection) the king of nowhere (- ? -; in ''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989)) they have found out (original to this collection) a rhyme for silver (''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989)) little nym (''the walker book of ghost stories'' ed. susan hill (1990)) the traitor (''the virago book of twentieth century ghost stories: volume two'' ed. richard dalby (1991)) die from day to day (original to this collection) fastness of light (original to this collection)
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - All And More	joan aiken's wonderful collections of whimsies: all with b+w illustrations by pat marriott: #1: ''all you've ever wanted'' (1953), q.v. #2: ''more than you bargained for'' (1955), q.v. #3: ''a small pinch of weather'' (1969), q.v. #4: ''a harp of fishbones'' (1972), q.v. #5: ''the faithless lollybird'' (1977), q.v. #A4: 'the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978) - contents differ; see below #6: ''up the chimney down'' (1984), q.v. #A5: ''up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985) - contents differ; see below omnibus of #1 and #2: #O: ''all and more'' (1971), (this book) abridged derivative collection: #Oa: ''all but a few'' (1974), q.v. posthumously-published (re-)collection: #P1: ''the serial garden: the complete armitage family stories'' (2008), q.v. delayed derivative, shuffled and abridged merkin collections with new titles: #A1: ''armitage, armitage, fly away home'' (1968), q.v. ten ''armitage family'' stories taken from: #1, four stories; #2, this merkin collection's title story retitled ''a batch of magic wands''; #3, five stories; #A2: ''smoke from cromwell's time'' (1970), q.v. ~half of #1 (drops ten stories out of nineteen), three from #3, two from #4; #A3: ''not what you expected'' (1974), q.v. most of #2 (drops four stories out of fourteen), three from #3, most of #4 (drops four stories); leaving 14 stories dropped: 6 from #1, 3 dropped from #2; 3 dropped from #3; 2 dropped from #4; shuffled and/or abridged merkin collections sharing uk titles: #A4: ''the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978), q.v. adds two stories from #6 #A5: ''up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985), q.v. drops three stories from #6, the two stories picked up into #A4 and ''a portable elephant'' and a re-shuffled merkin collection: #A6: ''shadows & moonshine'' (2001), q.v. five stories from #1, two from #3, three from #4, and three from #5; all in previous us collections
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - The Cuckoo Tree	alternate history novel set in the reign of good king james III, with dastardly hanoverians plots to be foiled, not least with the help of yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, and the rest of the gentlemen sending messages using twistycorks via the cuckoo tree...
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - The Cuckoo Tree	alternate history novel set in the reign of good king james III, with dastardly hanoverians plots to be foiled, not least with the help of yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, and the rest of the gentlemen sending messages to one another -using twistycorks - via the cuckoo tree...
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads	bloomsbury publishing bloomsbury imprint simultaneous h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with the card-covered yp/b bind-up of the same print-run signatures bearing isbn 978-1-4088-3998-0 dedication: to katarina, flora, francis and luke cover (d-j) art designed by emma ewbank incorporating interior decoration of the dome of mosque at naghsh-e jahan square, isfahan, iran (© shutterstock) cover (d-j) price £35.00 672pp: 656pp. including (i-) xx pages titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, 114 end pp: 95pp. notes section, 3pp. acknowledgements, 16pp. index, plus 2 x 8pp. photographic sections between pp. 220/221 and pp. 396/397, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 30th Apr 2024		Book Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads	bloomsbury publishing bloomsbury paperbacks bloomsbury imprint b-format p/b first general p/b edition dedication: to katarina, flora, francis and luke cover art designed by emma ewbank incorporating interior decoration of the dome of mosque at naghsh-e jahan square, isfahan, iran (© shutterstock) cover price £16.99 672pp: 656pp. including (i-) xx pages titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, 114 end pp: 95pp. notes section, 3pp. acknowledgements, 16pp. index, plus 2 x 8pp. photographic sections between pp. 220/221 and pp. 396/397 refer to indicia publishing history to see what number printing is held: given as a single number below the isbn table for the various editions
ppint. 27th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised)	this is the first uk printing of the comprehensively revised, doubled-in-length edition #18a q.v. confusingly, this nowhere upon the front cover mentions that it is this - far larger - revised edition - and it was published bearing the same isbn as the uk p/b of the shorter edition. i doubt richard evans cared...
ppint. 26th Apr 2024		Book Marge Piercy - Sleeping With Cats	judy piatkus (publishers) ltd. h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, possibly simultaneous first edition cover (d-j) art (none: photograph, presumably of the little marge piercy, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £17.99 352pp. including six unnumbered pages titles, indicia, table-of-contents, list of poems etc, perfectbound with endpapers between light brown cloth-covered boards, title, author & piatkus logo on spine in gold

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