ppint. 17th Feb 2024 | | BookPhilip José Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat | andre deutsch rapp & whiting h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by beverley lebarrow (photographic, unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.50
256pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 17th Feb 2024 | | BookStephen Booth - The Murder Road | hachette uk little, brown book group sphere imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
dedication: for lesley, as always
cover shutterstock
cover price £7.99, $15.95 canada
496pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. blank, 1p. advertising
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Showboat World | i sold the omnibus giant-size (?or anabas large?) poster of ''ether stream'', the painting, in IMT lancaster
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Showboat World | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art is ''the ether stream'' by rodney matthews (was a poster; print/giclée was available: his website)
isbn 0-812-50092-X can(ada)
cover price can(ada) $4.95
cover price u.s. $3.95
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given, taken from locus
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Showboat World | complete bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 9 780340 212523 90125
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookJack Vance - Showboat World | daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition, sharing merkin-printed covers°
cover art by david b. mattingly (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece also by mattingly (signed with his initials)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.453
° cover price $2.50 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
° cover price $2.25 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, frontispiece, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising
refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority in publication date established nor liable to be, but printing line drops the first digit, ''1'' leaving /23456789 formally identifying this as the second printing
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - A Flame In Byzantium | atta olivia clemens series #1:
prequel series to le comte de saint-germain series, q.v.
#1: ''a flame in byzantium'' (1987), (this novel)
#2: ''crusader's torch'' (1988), q.v.
#3: ''a candle for d'artagnan'' (1989), q.v.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - A Flame In Byzantium | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by manuel pérez-santjulián ''sanjulian'' clemente (signed sanjulian, credited as san julian)
isbn can(ada) 0-812-52805-0
cover price can(ada) $5.50
cover price u.s. $4.50
476pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Palace | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by mariano pérez clemente (signed maren, may be guillotined off bottom edge)
isbn can(ada) 0-812-52803-4
cover price u.s. $3.95 can(ada) $4.95
472pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Blood Games | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by mariano ''maren'' pérez clemente (signed maren? check)
isbn canada 0-812-520..-. (fish out & fill in)
cover price u.s. $4.95 canada $5.95
472pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Hotel Transylvania | le comte de saint-germain series #1
#1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), (this novel)
#2: "the palace" (1979), q.v.
#3: "blood games" (1979), q.v.
#4: "path of the eclipse" (1981), q.v.
#5: "tempting fate" (1982), q.v.
C#1: "the saint-germain chronicles" (collection) (1983) q.v.
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#6 & ff... (i believe about twenty further titles were published in h/cvr and/or yp/b from 1993 onwards, but have seen no general p/b editions as yet)
atta olivia clemens series: the prequel series to the above:
0#1: ''a flame in byzantium'' (1987), q.v.
0#2: ''crusader's torch'' (1988), q.v.
0#3: ''a candle for d'artagnan'' (1989), q.v.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Hotel Transylvania | times mirror new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition
there appears to've been no further uk dead tree edition since.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookBooth Mooney - Here Is My Body | l. (lionel) miller & co. red seal imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition (possibly first uk edition)
cover art unsigned, uncredited (re-used from gold medal mmpb cat# 218 (1952) first printing)
cover price 2/-
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Catch A Falling Star | random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by darrell k. sweet (unsigned, sfaics, credited)
cover price $3.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer also to indicia publishing history 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 october 1982
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Catch A Falling Star | possibly an early michael whelan cover painting (has the style & tones of some of his work)? - try and work out a way of tracking this down
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Planet Of The Double Sun | ace books, inc.'s professor jameson series listing & details completed, links to & fro likewise, and tested
there's a more recent re-collection - but only of thirteen of these novelettes - in merkin tp/b:
does anyone still read these creaky classics, these days - or are the shiny, new, expensive editions being bought primarily as an exercise in ''collector's completism'', and/or nostalgia?
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookLeo P. Kelley - The Counterfeits | the author's given name is leo patrick kelley, and his by-line leo p. kelley: the ''f'' here was the publisher's mistake.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Master Of Space | the original english title, ''prelude to space'', should^W has been added in the english title field
bookcat will then^W sort this book correctly together with the other editions of this book
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ppint. 15th Feb 2024 | | BookKevin Randle - Seeds Of War | Reviewunremarkable milsf; there's a reliable market for ''the merkin army in space'' fiction.
1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #1 | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #1 | random house group ballantine books mmpb second printing
reprint anthology of one novella, six novelettes and four short stories, introduction by terry carr
cover art none, typographical cover on deep blue field
cover price $1.95
352pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year | liable to state ''an intext publisher'' on title page and/or indicia:
it'd be appreciated should any bookcatter/browser holding a copy of this edition check to confirm whether, and which - and to post a comment ''here'' advising which - or both - or that neither - is the case.
''thanking you in advance'', love, ppint.
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year | ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
reprint anthology of four short stories, six novelettes and a novella, nf introduction by terry carr
cover art by chris foss (re-used from ''the people trap and other pitfalls, snares, devices and delusions, including three sniggles and a contrivance'' robert sheckley (pan books 1972), q.v.)
cover price $1.25
352pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: july, 1972
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Warlord Of Kor | at least two 21st century editions of this short novel / novella have been published as by terry gene carr
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Moore Williams - The Star Wasps | ace books half mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by jack gaughan (unsigned, uncredited, attributed in ''outermost: the life & art of jack gaughan'' luis ortez, jack gaughan (2010) q.v.)
cover price 40¢
½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with ''warlord of kor'' terry carr (1963), q.v.
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Warlord Of Kor | ace books imprint half 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
cover price 40¢
½ 224pp. (check) including 2 x 4pp. titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with ''the star wasps'' robert moore williams (1963), q.v.
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Planets Of Wonder | thomas nelson h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by frank alois (unsigned, credited for jacket design on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price $6.95
192pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - The Drylands | the drylands series novel
in the same near(ish) future setting as - three novelettes published in isaac asimov's magazine of science fiction:
water bringer (iamsf vol.15 #3, 3/1991) the cover story, and one b+w illustration, art by broeck steadman
celilo (iamsf vol.15 #7, 6/1991) one b+w illustration by broeck steadman
the bee man (iamsf vol.15 #10, 9/1991) one b+w illustration by broeck steadman
#1: "the drylands" (1993), (this novel)
the collected series:
#O: "water-rites" (pod 2007), q.v. (ebook 2014)
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - The Drylands | random house group ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
discovery ("del discovery rey") series
cover art by peter peebles (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price (canada $5.50) u.s. $4.50
284pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - Chimera | random house group ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
discovery / ("del discovery rey") series
cover art by peter peebles (signed with stylised p, credited)
cover price (canada $5.99) u.s. $4.99
328pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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