ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - Transformer | the morphodite trilogy #2:
#1: ''the morphodite'' (1981), q.v.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - Waves | daw books undated° mmpb third printing
cover art by ken w. kelly (signed, also credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph)
cover price $2.50
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
the near-meaningless daw books collector number is dropped from front cover
refer also to printing history to distinguish from canadadian-carcassed first printing copies, which is now implicitly accounted the second printing:
the third printing mmpb history number line reads 3456789
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - The Day Of The Klesh | the ler trilogy #3:
#1: ''the game players of zan'' (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn | yr hmbl srppnt. needs to re-read ''the day of the klesh'' a second time, to be certain whether the ler series truly constitutes a thematic trilogy, or rests an absorbing but unbalanced series whose focus shifts so greatly, that the theme is fractured beyond the point of achieving more over-all than the sum of its parts.
i didn't consider it for inclusion in holocaus^W happy hamlyn paperbacks' sf & fantasy list, because hamlyn paperbacks was collapsed by its incompetent mangling-director walter clare before the question arose; but it'd've been a certainty.
this is a good-to-very good novel, in a good-to-very good series, which it is as well as the introduction of a unique concept into science fiction; i'm just not certain/convinced the series actually remains centered upon the twin underlying conceptual themes of the first two books.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn | the ler series #2, though first- written & published:
#1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977), q.v.
#2: ''the warriors of dawn'' (1975), (this novel)
#3: ''the day of the klesh'' (1979), q.v.
omnibus edition of #2, #1, #3:
#O: ''the book of the ler'' (2016), q.v.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund Cooper - Transit | faber & faber h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by brian c. rigby (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 18/-
232pp. including six pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund Cooper - Voices In The Dark | brown, watson digit books p/b second printing, with new cat#, new cover art
original collection of fifteen short stories with "proem" (Introduction) by edmund cooper
cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaiaa
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
precise publication date taken from l. w. currey
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund Cooper - Voices In The Dark | brown, watson digit books p/b first printing, first edition
original collection of fifteen short stories with "proem" (Introduction) by edmund cooper
cover art by ed valigursky
cover price 2'-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund Cooper - The Uncertain Midnight | hutchinson & co. first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition (hutchinson's may have originated the novel, but the ballantine books mmpb was the first edition to see publication).
cover (d-j) art by pat marriott (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 13/6
224pp. including eight pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJames White - The Secret Visitors | serialised in new worlds #52, 53, 54; 10, 11, 12/1956 as "tourist planet";
don wollheim reportedly required the additional all-on space battle that appears in the ace books first edition and is retained in all further english language book publications of which i know.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJames White - The Secret Visitors | 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; still as-yet not authoritatively attributed sfaik)
cover price 35¢
½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc., advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with "master of life and death" robert silverberg (1957), q.v.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - The Gameplayers Of Zan | the ler series #1, though second-written:
#1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977) (this novel)
#2: ''the warriors of dawn'' (1975), q.v.
#3: ''the day of the klesh'' (1979), q.v.
omnibus of #1, #2 & #3:
#0: ''the book of the ler'' (2006), q.v.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookEdward E. Smith - Subspace Explorers | ace books mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, credited)
b+w frontispiece by roy g. krenkel (credited, retained from the canaveral press h/cvr first edition (1965), q.v)
cover price 60¢
256pp. (check) including frontispiece, titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
° - only the 1965 copyright date is given: year of publication presumably taken from donald h. tuck
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookHope Mirrlees - Lud-in-the-mist | ballantine books ltd. first printing, first uk p/b edition
"about hope mirrlees and "lud-in-the-mist": the golden apples of the west" (introduction) lin carter (1970)
cover art by gervasio gallardo (shared from ballantine books, inc. mmpb first printings)
cover price 40p, 95¢ south africa, $1.25 australia, $1.25 new zealand, not for sale in canada
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJane Roberts - Die Natur Der Psyche | by-line of dorothy jane roberts (1929-1984)
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMark Clifton - When They Come From Space | hmph. i've just this week discovered that i've been labouring for sixty years under the misapprehension that this novel's title was "when they came from space" - and this, despite my evidently having typed it up correctly from time to time during these six decades. . .
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn Peake - Titus Groan | also distributed as the trilogy in a colour-printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers which are thirds of the one painting by bob pepper, signed "pepper"
at first this slipcase bore no sbn nor price.
a later printing of this slipcase bears sbn 345•23525•8 of its own printed upon it.
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn Peake - Gormenghast | also distributed as the trilogy in a printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers
which are thirds of the one painting, signed "pepper"
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn Peake - Titus Alone | also distributed as the trilogy in a printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers
which are thirds of the one painting, signed "pepper"
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookIsaac Asimov - Asimov | omnibus of six books, not five as incorrectly stated in notes section: the three books of the original foundation trilogy (long since expanded in both directions in time), composed of various novellas and novelettes as they were, the two novels, "the stars like dust", "the naked sun", and the thematic collection, "i, robot" (the uk variant).
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookTed White - The Spawn Of The Death Machine | warner paperback library mmpb first printing, second paperback library mmpb printing over-all
cover art by armand weston (signed weston, credited as a. weston)
cover price 95¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookTed White - Android Avenger | thank-you jimess.
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - Lest Darkness Fall | publication date of this printing entered above is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 8/1969.
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookMark Clifton - When They Come From Space | macfadden books mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by richard powers (signed, signature partly visible, uncredited, retained from first printing)
cover price 50¢
144pp. including titles, indicia 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....january, 1963 second printing..... january, 1967
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookMark Clifton - When They Come From Space | dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned
cover (d-j) price 15/-
184pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookMark Clifton - When They Come From Space | macfadden books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
cover art by richard powers (signed, signature partly visible, uncredited)
cover price 40¢
144pp. including titles, indicia 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. month of publication not given, taken from second printing
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookMark Clifton - When They Come From Space | serialised in amazing vol.36 #1, #2; 1/1962, 2/1962 as ''pawn of the black fleet''†
each episode with two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay (and b+w back cover art by him (?))
† - republished under this title as half an armchair fiction "double" tp/b (2011), q.v.
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookRoger Elwood - Demon Kind | thank-you jimess.
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ppint. 29th Mar 2024 | | BookRoger Elwood - Demon Kind | contents:
introduction (nf) roger elwood
linkage (short story) barry n. malzberg
mud violet (novelette) r. a. lafferty (a ''the men who knew too much'' story)
bettyann's children (ss) kris neville (''bettyann'' series #3)
child (ss) joan c. holly (aka j. hunter holly)
world of gray (ss) norman spinrad
dandy (ss) ted white
a proper santa claus (ss) anne mccaffrey
the marks of painted teeth (ss) jack dann
the eddystone light (ntte) laurence yep
from darkness to darkness (ss) terry carr
monologue (ss) philip josé farmer
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ppint. 27th Mar 2024 | | BookHarry Turtledove - Videssos Besieged | the videssos cycle:
the time of troubles #4:
the lost legion #1:
#1: "the misplaced legion" (1987), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
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