ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookW. T. Ballard - Walk In Fear | first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1952
this is the first book publication, and the first publication of the novel.
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)
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookHarry Whittington - The Brass Monkey | first published year is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1951
first published by handi books u.s.a. in 1951
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookCarl G. Hoges - Crime On My Hands | first published by phantom books in australia in digest format p/b cat# 503, in 1951
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookCarl G. Hoges - Crime On My Hands | alexander moring p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned sfaics, uncredited
cover price 2/-
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookGunard Hjertstedt - Wake Up To Murder | first published year is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1951
"wake up to murder" by gunard hjerstedt as by "day keene" was first published by phantom books australia in 1951
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookGunard Hjertstedt - Wake Up To Murder | cover price 35 cents, 2/- aust.
- is it known whether the first-mentioned price was the cover price in new zealand, or elsewhere in the british empire, e.g. in the federation of malaysia, or in canada; or was it confirmation of the cover price in the u.s.a., should copies "leak" thither, where the same title was published as phantom books cat# 513 ?
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookBrian W. Aldiss - The Eighty-minute Hour | jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition or first uk edition°
cover d-j art by alan tunbridge
cover d-j price £2.25
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
° - textual differences between this and the doubleday h/cvr indicate this may have been brian's original text, and jonathan cape ltd. the originating publishers; they were his originating publishers in the nineteen seventies through the mid nineteen-eighties
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookJohn Carnell - New Writings In SF 8 | bantam books mmpb first printing, first edition thus
reprint anthology of six short stories and three novelettes
cover art by david mccall johnston (signed)
cover price 75¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookJohn Carnell - New Writings In SF 8 | thanks, jimess.
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ppint. 18th Apr 2024 | | BookBrian Aldiss - The Eighty Minute Hour | uk p/b of extremely dubious legality produced as a run-on or slight variant bind-up of the 1975 leisure books mmpb edition. both drop the hyphen from the title on the front cover.
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookGardner F. Fox - Kyrik And The Wizard's Sword | kyrik series #3
#1: "kyrik: warlock warrior" (1975), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookGardner F. Fox - Kyrik And The Lost Queen | kyrik series #4 and thankfully last.
#1: "kyrik: warlock warrior" (1975), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookGardner F. Fox - Kyrik Fights The Demon World | kyrik series #2
#1: "kyrik: warlock warrior" (1975), q.v. for series listing and links.
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Sturm auf mein Herz | author should^W has been corrected to "ann maxwell"
"elizabeth lowell" is the pen name under which ann maxwell (a. e. maxwell)'s romance, romantic thrillers and historical romances are published
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Liebe Auf Widerruf | author should^W has been corrected to "ann maxwell"
"elizabeth lowell" is the pen name under which ann maxwell (a. e. maxwell)'s romance, romantic thrillers and historical romances are published
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Blutiges Gold | author should^W has been corrected to "ann maxwell"
"elizabeth lowell" is the pen name under which ann maxwell (a. e. maxwell)'s romance, romantic thrillers and historical romances are published
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumEartha Kitt - Down To Eartha | the date of this rca uk lp is^W was wrong, and it should^W has been corrected to 1958
the rca uk edition was released in 1958, not in 1955, when it was released on the hmv label
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Change | kensington publishing corp. pinnacle imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art none: typographical cover (on granulated in purples field)
cover price (no prices visible on front cover) (canada $5.99) u.s. $5.99
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Timeshadow Rider | kensington publishing corp. pinnacle imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art none: typographical cover (with a vaguely "spacey" background)
cover price (canada $7.99) u.s. $5.99
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Dancer's Illusion | kensington publishing corp. pinnacle imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art none: typographical cover
cover price (no prices visible on front cover) (canada $5.99) u.s. $5.99
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Dancer's Luck | kensington publishing corp. pinnacle imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art none: typographical cover
cover price (no prices visible on front cover) (canada $5.99) u.s. $5.99
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Fire Dancer | kensington publishing corp. pinnacle imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art none: typographical cover
cover price (canada $5.99) u.s. $5.99
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - Name Of A Shadow | the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
288pp. (check) including unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 17th Apr 2024 | | BookAnn Maxwell - A Dead God Dancing | the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
288pp. (check) including unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - Land Of Unreason | tom stacey h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by david l. fletcher (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £1.80
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookMartin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong | author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author field to co-editor
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookMartin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong | contents:
introduction (nf) brittiany a. koren
the poisoned chalice (novelette) brian stableford
battle of wits (short story) mickey zucker reichert
the hero of killorglin (ntte) fiona patton
goblin lullaby (ss) jim c. hines
crumbs (ntte) esther m. friesner
fellow traveller (ss) donald j. bingle
food fight (ss) alan dean foster
moonlighting (ss) devon monk
the rose, the farmboy and the gnome (ntte) phaedra m. weldon
a day at the unicorn races (ss) christina af. york
dragonslayer: being the true and terrible tale of a fearsome meeting between a man and a monster (ntte) jana paniccia
the murder of mr. wolf (ss) josepha sherman
new yorke snow (ntte) susan sizemore
meet the madfeet (ss) michael jasper
finder's keeper (ss) janny wurts
is this real enough (ntte) lisanne norman
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookMartin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong | daw books mmpb first printing, first edition
original anthology of nine short stories and seven novelettes, introduction by brittiany a. koren
dedication: for robert j. ambrose, when my reality wasn't always what i expected, and my fantasies were far from coming true, you were there to listen. thanks, dad, for always knowing.
---b.a.k.
cover art unsigned, uncredited (of two determined-looking women carrying a garden gnome-model dwarf-in-a-red-conical-hat slung from a pole that's bowing under his weight uphill)
near-meaningless daw books collectors no. 1377
no separate cat# on cover, nor within (would've been UE2380 if there were one)
cover price 7.99 u.s. (10.99 can)(ada)
320pp. including (i-)viii pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., 2pp. nf introduction, 3 end pp. advertising
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Heirs Of Hammerfell | daw books h/cvr first printing, first edition
dedication: for betsy, a chip off the old block.
cover (d-j) art by richard hescox (signed stylized hescox, dated, credited also on d-j back flap), jacket design by susan bissett (credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price u.s. $18.95, canada $22.95
near-meaningless daw books collector no. 800
304pp. including eight pages (2pp. reader's guide to darkover°) titles, indicia etc, four blank end pp. quarter-bound with light blue endpapers between light blue paper-covered boards in dark blue cloth, with title, author, daw logo in silver on spine cloth
° - separation of darkovan history into six outlined ages, with daw-published titles listed after each age's synopsis, plus listing of the six darkover anthologies published thus far; ace-published novels not listed
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ppint. 16th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur | london weekend television hutchinson & co. arrow p/b first printing, first uk edition
"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 a fictional darkovan cartographer
cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn, uncredited)
cover price £1.25, $4.15 australia, $3.95 new zealand
388pp. (check °) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising
° - pagination starts at "13", but this is not preceded by twelve unnumbered pages - only four...†
† - "publishers!"
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