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ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book James Blish - A Work Of Art And Other Stories	contents: common time (short story) science fiction quarterly vol.2 #4, 8/1953 testament of andros (ss) future vol.3 #5, 1/1953, the cover story, art by milton luros the art of the sneeze (ss) f&sf vol.63 #5, 11/1982 statistician's day (ss) in "science against man" ed. anthony cheetham (1970), q.v. who's in charge here? (ss) f&sf vol.22 #5, 5/1962 (credit mis-stated, given as "none so blind", which is also a blish ss (1962): it is not the same story retitled) how beautiful with banners (ss) (uncredited) in "orbit 1" aka "orbit one" ed. damon knight (1966), q.v. this earth of hours (ss) f&sf vol.16 #6, 6/1959 (miscredited: given as published in thrilling wonder stories 1959); venture atlas bre #15, 11/1964 there shall be no darkness (novella) (uncredited) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxvi #1, 4/1950; magazine of horror vol.5 #1, 1/1969 a work of art (ss) science fiction stories (u.s.) vol.7 #1, 7/1956 as "art-work"
ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book James Blish - A Work Of Art And Other Stories	severn house first printing, first edition severn house ltd. 9-15 high street, sutton surrey sm1 1df (severn house inc. merkin office 475 fifth avenue, ny ny10017) reprint collection of eight short stories and a novella assembled by frances lyall cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price £13.99, u.s. $19.00 192pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, nf introduction by frances lyall, no blank end pp, sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, author's surname, title and severn house logo in gold on spine
ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun	#18 in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised)	#18a in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur	#19 in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 22nd Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur	daw books undated° mmpb seventh printing cover art by george barr (signed, now credited correctly to george barr) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover price $2.50 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising wholly merkin-printed: indicia publishing history states first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 the near-meaningless daw books collector number remains absent from the front covers; the cat# remains in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo ° - year of publication of not given: months and year taken from sheldon jaffery there may have been a simultaneous canadian-carcased variant, formally identified as the eighth printing by printing number line, but i've not yet seen, nor seen any report of the eighth printing
ppint. 21st Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur	daw books undated° simultaneous near-identical mmpb fifth and sixth printings sharing cover art by george barr (signed, now credited correctly to george barr) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover price $1.95 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. 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 first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /6 7 8 9 (?10 11 12 13 14?) for the merkin-carcassed copies and /5 6 7 8 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 reported for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the fifth printing (the canadian-carcased variant was generally assigned the higher printing number, so this could be worth double-checking) the near-meaningless daw books collector number remains absent from the front covers; the cat# remains in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo ° - year of publication of not given in their indicia: year by even interpolation between those of the printings to either side
ppint. 21st Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur	daw books undated° simultaneous near-identical mmpb third and fourth printings sharing new cover art by george barr (signed, miscredited to jack gaughan) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover price $1.95 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. 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 first printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /3 4 5 6 7 8 9 for the merkin-carcassed copies and /4 5 6 7 8 9, for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the fourth printings the near-meaningless daw books collector number is removed from the front covers; the cat# takes its former place in the boxed yellow-fielded daw books logo ° - month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus 202, 7/1977
ppint. 21st Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur	century hutchinson/century arrow imprint first, arrow books second over-all printing, with new cover art "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" (b+w map) "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer cover art by peter a. jones (no visible signature, painting likely signed paj, dated; credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 (overseas territories prices - check) 388pp. (check°)(double-check!°°) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; taken from locus ° - pagination starts at "13", but this is *not* preceded by twelve unnumbered pages - only four...† °° - this printing seen given as 428pp. - for 432pp inclusive?? - but it's very unlikely to've been re-set... † - "publishers!"
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Das Vermächtnis Von Erdsee	n.b. not the first edition of this collection.
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Interfaces	a somewhat belated "thank-you, jimess".
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised)	daw books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition, nor first mmpb of the revised, expanded edition cover art by david a. cherry (unsigned, credited as david cherry) daw uniform darkover edition borders design by richard hescox (credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.944 cover price (canada $5.99) • u.s. $4.99 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, and presumably "to keep the oath" (1979), end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised)	berkley publishing group charter communications ace books mmpb fifth printing of the revised edition, 9th printing over-all, including printings of the original, unexpended edition, stated seventh printing includes "to keep the oath" (a darkover novelette) marion zimmer bradley (5/1979), and with new cover art by james warhola (signed j.warhola, credited) cover price (canada $3.95) u.s. $3.50 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, revised edition of novel, original novelette, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised)	ace books imprint mmpb printings so far seen (& seen recorded in detail) of this revised, rewritten and greatly expanded novel: 5/1979 revised edition first printing, first edition; fourth printing including original unrevised printings with a five digit system cat#, fifth over-all cat# 06854 isbn 0-441-06854-5 cover price $2.25 4/1980 its presumed second printing as evinced by cat# advance by 1 fifth printing including original unrevised printings with a five digit system cat#, sixth over-all cat# 06855 isbn 0-441-06855-3 cover price $2.50 4/1981 presumed third printing as evinced by cat# advance by 1 sixth printing including original unrevised printings with a five digit system cat#, seventh over-all cat# 06856 isbn 0-441-06856-1 cover price $2.75 5/1983 presumed fourth printing, as evinced by cat# advance by 1; stated sixth printing in indicia seventh printing including original unrevised printings with a five digit system cat#, eighth over-all cat# 06857 isbn 0-441-06857-X cover price $2.95 the 6/1985 next known ace books mmpb printing was definitely by the berkley publishing group and bears new cover art by james warhola, cat# 06858, isbn 0-441-06858-8, cover prices (canada $3.95) u.s. $3.50 and is stated in its indicia to be the seventh printing but is the ninth printing over-all
ppint. 20th Apr 2024		Book John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16	nods - so it was a bit rich for one of the "new worlds gang" to put down "traditional" sf as old-fashioned & boring, when you consider that, the odd arts council grant aside, the primary finance of new worlds post- roberts & vinter were the advances michael moorcock received from granada publishing, allison & busby and the like for his interminable° trilogies of trilogies piled ever higher and higher, until they toppled willy-nilly into an inconsistent, incoherent multiverse. . . ° - but commercially successful - the granada publishing mayflower, then granada, later grafton (and eventually harpercollinspublishers) & namara group quartet books uk p/bs and the berkley publishing group & lancer books mmpbs are still around on secondhand bookstalls and in charity shops...
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Bull And The Spear	quartet books fourth printing 1976 on same isbn and from same plates/type-setting has new cover design, dedication: "for marianne" new cover art by chris achilleos (uncredited, unsigned, collected in "beauty & the beast" chris achilleos (1978), q.v.) cover price 60p, canada $2.50 160pp. including 6 unnumbered, uncounted pp. titles, indicia etc.4 end pp. advertising and mail-order information (barnicoats, un-id-ed) the new distributor, futura publications, 's sf imprint orbit logo appears on front cover & spine, but this remains a quartet books limited publication. at least some copies bore a black-on-white peelable sticky label with the quartet logo over the orbit logo on the front cover, when originally distributed, possibly all. indicia publishing history includes: published by quartet books limited 1973 27 goodge street, london w1p 1fd (uk) first published in great britain by allison & busby ltd, 1973 copyright © 1973 by michael moorcock printed in great britain by hunt barnard printing ltd., aylesbury, bucks.
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book Lucy A. Snyder - Spellbent	#1 of the spellbent trilogy: #1: "spellbent" (2009), (this book) #2: "shotgun sorceress" (2010), q.v. #3: "switchblade goddess" (2012), q.v. "what dwells within" (novelette) in "shadowed souls" eds. jim butcher, kerrie l. hughes (2016), q.v. is apparently set in the spellbent world; i've no idea when it occurs by the series' internal chronology
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16	it'd be worth noting by whom the review published in new worlds was written: the magazine was by then a flag-waver for "the new wave" and for "speculative fiction", and rather prone to get very sniffy about perfectly good "traditional" sf that did not adhere to their - somewhat ironically - rather narrow definitions of what "speculative fiction" was, or ought to be - or, was simply written by the "wrong (/wrong kind of) writers".
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book Kenneth Bulmer - New Writings In Sf27	sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first edition original anthology of ten or twelve (depending on accounting method) short stories and a novelelette, introduction by ken. cover (d-j) art by david sumner (unsigned, credited for jacket design as dave sumner on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price (updated by sidgick & jackson price-gun label, or possibly no price printed on d-j flap) 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book Kenneth Bulmer - New Writings In Sf27	contents: foreword (nf) kenneth bulmer bartholemew & son (and the fish-girl) (novelelette) michael g. coney the day they cut off the power (short story) vera johnson a time of mind (ss) keith wells year by year the evil gains: three deadly enigmas v (1 or 3 ss, or chapters) brian aldiss xiii. within the black circle xiv. killing off the big animals xv. what are you doing? why are you doing it? long time ago, not forgotten (ss) bob van laerhoven (english translation of "liefde" (1974)) zone (ss) peter linnett heatwave (ss) david langford heal thyself (ss) john rackham (john t. phillifent) the observer (ss) graham charnock cassius and the mind-jaunt (ss) colin kapp
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16	dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition (as scheduled: possibly preceded by corgi books p/b) original anthology of two short stories, three novelelettes and a novella, introduction by john carnell cover (d-j) art none: typographical in black on dennis dobson's long-time uniform two-colour "new writings in sf" design by eric ayers (credited on d-j front flap) cover price 21/- 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16	contents: foreword (nf) john carnell getaway from getawehi (novella) colin kapp (an unorthodox engineers story) all done by mirrors (short story) douglas r. mason throwback (ss) sydney j. bounds the perihelion man (novelelette) christopher priest R26/5/PSY and i (ntte) michael g. coney meatball (ntte) james white (a sector general story)
ppint. 19th Apr 2024		Book John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16	6/1969 was presumably the month in which dennis dobson first advertised this original anthology would be published° - but the copyright date of 1970 does seem pretty conclusive, doesn't it - ? ° - traditionally, publishers advertised their new titles lists seasonally; this may've started off as a direct consequence of the link between the ecclesiastical and law terms, and a considerable proportion of early book publishing's catering to these two of the three oldest professions. by nineteen-sixties & seventies, this had long since settled down into a spring and an autumn list, with titles having their scheduled month of publication noted, where this had been decided upon (plus a dedicated christmas list from those publishers as indulged themselves in such). so titles might commonly be announced up to six months before their provisionally scheduled publication date - and then other factors might intrude, including matters from the real world™. . .
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book Joan Aiken - Dark Interval	sbn 671-77730-0 compatible with isbn10ses by design of the latter being extended from the sbn system, all issued sbns being deemed to be prefixed by invisible "0"s.
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book John Cooper - Yesterday I Died	cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 35 cents, 4/6 n.z., 2/- aust.
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book Milton K. Ozaki - Too Young To Die	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1954 first published in book format in 1954
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book Albert L. Quandt - Gang Girl	should^W have^W has had the original title, "gang moll", added in the "english title" field, so that book cat will automagically sort the two editions of the same book together correctly
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book Laura Hale - Woman Hunter	notes section is wrong in saying that the first edition bore revised cover art, and the statement should be deleted: no practical tardises having been introduced by or during 1953, nobody could go back in time to ex-post-1953-factually publish a reprint edition of a 1953 original in 1952, with a cover revised in 1952 from that used in 1953.
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book W. T. Ballard - Walk In Fear	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1952 the first book publication, and the first publication of the novel, was in 1952 no h/cvr edition of this novel was published by *anyone* in 1948, and certainly not by street & smith. (a shorter version saw magazine serialization as "i could kill you" in the shadow magazine in 1948)
ppint. 18th Apr 2024		Book W. T. Ballard - Walk In Fear	first published year date is^W eas wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1952 the first paperback book publication, and the first publication of the novel, was in 1952 no h/cvr edition of this novel was published by *anyone* in 1948, and certainly not by street & smith, who were a major magazine publisher, primarily of pulp magazines. (a shorter version saw magazine serialization as "i could kill you" in the shadow magazine in 1948)

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