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ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985 this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14	victor gollancz yp/b first printing, simultaneous first uk edition card covers bind-up of the same print-run signatures as the victor gollancz h/cvr first printing cover art none, typographical cover cover price £4.95 376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between card covers 1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, simultaneous first uk edition collected signatures of the same printing also bound in card covers as the victor gollancz yp/b edition cover (d-j) art none; typographical cover cover (d-j) price £9.95 376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards 1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985 this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Fletcher Pratt - 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
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book L. Sprague De Camp - Land Of Unreason	ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition adds ''about ''land of unreason'', l. sprague de camp and fletcher pratt: a michigan yankee in king oberon's court'' (nf) lin carter cover art by donna violetti (signed violetti, credited) cover price 95¢ 252pp. (check) including (i-)xi pp. titles, indicia etc, nf introduction by lin carter, end p. advertising refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed; no priority established nor liable to be, both state first ballantine books edition: january, 1970
ppint. 20th Feb 2024		Book Henry Kuttner - Bypass To Otherness	contents: cold war (novelette) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxv #1, 10/1949; atlas bre vol.1 #3, 6/1950 (hogben) call him demon (ntte) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxix #10, fall(10)/1946 as by keith hammond the dark angel (ntte) startling stories vol.13 #2, 3/1946 the piper's son (ntte) astounding vol. xxxiv #6, 2/1945 as by lewis padgett absalom (short story) startling stories vol.14 #2, fall(10)/1946 (baldies) the little things (ss) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxix #1, fall(10)/1946 nothing but gingerbread left (ss) astounding vol. xxx #5, 1/1943 housing problem (ss) charm (merkin women's magazine) 10/1944
ppint. 19th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14	contents: introduction (nf) terry carr press enter [splodge] (novella) john varley blued moon (novelette) connie willis summer solstice (ntte) charles l. harness morning child (short story) gardner dozois the aliens who knew, i mean, everything (ss) george (geo) alec effinger a day in the skin (or, the century we were out of them) (ss) tanith lee instructions (ss) bob leman the lucky strike (ntte) kim stanley robinson greenhearts (ss) lee montgomerie bloodchild (ntte) octavia e. butler trojan horse (ntte) michael (g.) swanick fears (ss) pamela sargent trinity (nlla) nancy kress 1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown recommended reading (nf) terry carr
ppint. 19th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14	should be de-linked from the 1972 ballantine books #1: this tor book is the first edition of #14 as stated in submission, and as given in the english title.
ppint. 19th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14	thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first edition ''terry carr's best science fiction of the year'' on cover aka ''best sf/science fiction of the year 14'' ed. terry carr (victor gollancz 1985), q.v. reprint anthology of two novellas, five novelettes and six short stories, with nf introduction & recommended reading list by terry carr, review of the sfnal year by charles n. brown (founder-editor-publisher of locus) cover art by michael w. carroll (unsigned, credited) isbn 0-812-53274-0 can(ada) cover price can(ada) $3.95 cover price u.s. $3.50 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book David Griffiths - Astro Race	''king lang'' is/was a curtis warren house name used on novels by at least five different uk authors
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Gail Kimberly - Dracula Began	harcourt brace jovanovich pyramid books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by george ziel (unsigned, uncredited; on lyle munroe books website of cover artists) cover price $1.25 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers	bluejay books tp/b first printing, possibly first tp/b (the distribution system used for, and therefore the status of avon books' equinox p/b series is still uncertain) a bluejay special edition (series) adds new nf afterword by peter s. beagle dedication: to john v. padovano cover art by john pierard (unsigned, credited) cover price $5.95 232pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterword (nf) peter s. beagle, advertising
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers	avon books equinox imprint b-format p/b first printing rediscovery series #12 cover art by stanislaw fernandes (aka stanislaw fernandez) (signed, mis-credited to ark wong) cover price $1.95, canada $2.25 cat# 24711 in canada 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles	le comte de saint-germain series C#1: #1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Blood Games	le comte de saint-germain series #3: #1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Palace	le comte de saint-germain series #2: #1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles	contents: the spider glass (novelette) in ''shadows 4'' ed. charles l. grant (1981), q.v. renewal (novella) in ''shadows 5'' ed. charles l. grant (1982), q.v. art songs (short story) in ''a fantasy reader'' eds. jeff frame, jack rems (1981), q.v. seat partner (ss) in ''nightmares'' ed. charles l. grant (1979), q.v. cabin 33 (nlla) in ''shadows 3'' ed. charles l. grant (1980), q.v. my favourite enigma: the historical count saint-germain (nf) chelsea quinn yarbro (original to this collection)
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles	simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of two novellas, a novelette and two short stories, all featuring le comte de saint-germain cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $2.95 208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. including nf article by chelsea quinn yarbro, advertising
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Crusader's Torch	atta olivia clemens series #2: prequel series to le comte de saint-germain series, q.v. #1: ''a flame in byzantium'' (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 18th Feb 2024		Book Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Crusader's Torch	thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by manuel pérez-santjulián ''sanjulian'' clemente isbn can(ada) 0-812-520179-8 cover price can(ada) $5.95 cover price u.s. $4.95 476pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Tunnel In The Sky	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by alan breese cover (d-j) price 15/-(?) (this mayn't be the original price°) 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards ° - victor gollancz ran what was in effect a separate junior library-aimed sf line of titles often merkin-published as category sf, or as general fiction line, as adult fiction; but they also picked up uk & british commonwealth (usually excluding canada) volume rights to titles published as children's books for this. exceptionally for victor gollancz science fiction h/cvrs throughout this period, the books they published for this bore illustrated restricted-palette dust-jackets, usually single-colour (and black) on white paper.
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go	the riverworld series #1: fix-up of two novellas: "the day of the great shout" worlds of tomorrow vol.2 #5 (whole no.11), 1/1965, q.v. and "the suicide express" worlds of tomorrow vol.3 #6 (whole no.18), 3/1966, q.v.
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go	andre deutsch rapp & whiting first printing, first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by beverley lebarrow (unsigned, credited for jacket design, first name misspelled beverly) cover (d-j) price £2.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go	the riverworld series #1: fix-up of two novellas: "the day of the great shout" worlds of tomorrow vol.2 #5 (whole no.11), 1/1965, q.v. and "the suicide express" worlds of tomorrow vol.3 #6 (whole no.18), 3/1966, q.v.
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by patrick woodroffe (unsigned, collected in ''mythopoeikon'' patrick woodroffe (1976), q.v.) sbn 586-03939-2 cover price 40p, $1.20 australia, $1.20 new zealand, $1.50 canada 208pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat	riverworld series #2: #1: "to your scattered bodies go" (1971), q.v. for series listing and links. fix-up of "the felled star" from if vol.17 #7, 7/1967 q.v., #8, 8/1967 q.v. part one is the cover story, and both parts have a b+w illustration, all by jack gaughan and "the fabulous riverboat" from if vol.20 #11, 5+6/1971 q.v., #12, 7+8/1971 q.v. both parts have a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by peter andrew ''paj'' jones (unsigned, credited on back cover) sbn 586039899 cover price 60p, $1.80 australia, $1.80 new zealand, $2.50 canada 256pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 4 end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical reprintings: second printing 1978 which differs: isbn 0586039899 cover price 85p, $2.95 australia, $2.75 new zealand, $2.50 canada third printing 1979 which differs: isbn 0586039899 cover price 95p, £1.04½ republic of ireland, $3.25 australia, $2.95 new zealand granada panther fourth printing 1980 which differs: front cover titles new typography larger, swirled isbn 0586039899 cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $5.25 new zealand indicia publishing history lists three printings, last 1979 granada panther fifth printing 1980 which differs: front cover titles retain swirled typography isbn 0586039899 cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $5.25 new zealand indicia publishing history lists four printings, last 1980 granada panther sixth printing ,1982 which differs: front cover retains swirled typography isbn 0586039899 cover price £1.50 (overseas territories?) indicia publishing history lists four printings, last two 1979, 1982 - i.e. omits both 1980 printings granada panther seventh printing, 1983 which differs: front cover retains swirled typography isbn 0586039899 cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand indicia publishing history lists five printings, last three 1979, 1982, 1983 (omits both 1980 printings) granada panther eighth printing, 1985 which differs: front cover retains swirled typography isbn 0586039899 cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand indicia publishing history lists six printings, last four 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985 (omits both 1980 printings) wm. collins sons grafton books imprint, first grafton imprint 1986, ninth over-all, which further differs: front cover retains panther science fiction and swirled typography of title isbn 0586039899 cover price £2.50, $6.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand indicia publishing history claims first published by grafton 1975, and reprinted 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 - still omits the two 1980 printings wm. collins sons grafton books second printing 1988, tenth printing over-all, differs: front cover drops the panther science fiction line, retains swirled typography isbn 0586039899 cover price £2.99, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand indicia publishing history line: reprinted 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 - still omits the two 1980 printings harpercollinspublishers first printing 12/1993, eleventh printing over-all, bears new cover art by keith scaife isbn 0586039899 cover price £4.99 first published by grafton 1975. reprinted ten times this paperback edition 1993. 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat	riverworld series #2: #1: "to your scattered bodies go" (1971), q.v. for series listing and links. fix-up of "the felled star" from if vol.17 #7, 7/1967 q.v., #8, 8/1967 q.v. part one is the cover story, and both parts have a b+w illustration, all by jack gaughan and "the fabulous riverboat" from if vol.20 #11, 5+6/1971 q.v., #12, 7+8/1971 q.v. both parts have a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
ppint. 17th Feb 2024		Book Philip José Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat	riverworld series #2: #1: "to your scattered bodies go" (1971), q.v. for series listing and links. fix-up of "the felled star" from if vol.17 #7, 7/1967 q.v., #8, 8/1967 q.v. part one is the cover story, and both parts have a b+w illustration, all by jack gaughan and "the fabulous riverboat" from if vol.20 #11, 5+6/1971 q.v., #12, 7+8/1971 q.v. both parts have a b+w illustration by jack gaughan

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