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ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Joe Millard - Blood For A Dirty Dollar
the dollar westerns series #5:

#1: "the good the bad and the ugly" joe millard (1967), q.v. for series listing and links.

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Joe Millard - A Coffin Full Of Dollars
the dollar westerns series #8:

#1: "the good, the bad and the ugly" joe millard (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Joe Millard - The Million Dollar Bloodhunt
the dollars series westerns #6:

#1: "the good, the bad and the ugly" (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Joe Millard - The Devil's Dollar Sign
a somewhat belated "thank-you, david whiteley".

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Terry Harknett - A Fistful Of Dollars
the dollars series westerns #3:

#1: "the good, the bad and the ugly" (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Joe Millard - For A Few Dollars More
the dollar westerns series #2:

#1: "the good, the bad and the ugly" (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
21st Feb 2025
Book
Todhunter Ballard - A Dollar To Die For
dollars westerns series #7:

#1: "the good, the bad and the ugly" joe millard (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Milton Lesser - Tyrants Of Time
novella first published in imagination vol.5 #3, (5/1954);
the cover story, art by w. e. terry, with a b+w illustration by paul callé

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Murray Leinster - Pariah Planet
novella first published in amazing stories vol.35 #7, 7/1961 with three b+w illustrations by virgil finlay

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Murray Leinster - Pariah Planet
armchair fiction trade p/b first printing, first edition
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts wre the same way up)

cover art by
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.


doubled with "tyrants of time" milton lesser (2014), q.v.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Milton Lesser - Tyrants Of Time
armchair fiction trade p/b first printing, first edition
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and texts all the same way up)

cover art by w. e. terry (re-used from imagination vol.5 #3, (5/1954))
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.


doubled with "pariah planet"murray leinster (2014), q.v.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Robert Sheckley - Mindswap
collins publishing group grafton books p/b first printing (despite confused indicia publishing history),
not first uk p/b edition. indicia publishing history does not mention the pan books two uk p/b printings
first uk p/b edition to bear a panther books bloc (0-586- prefixed) isbn10

cover art by neil breedon (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia (recommended), $8.95 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month of publication not given in the indicia publishing history, taken from locus

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Robert Sheckley - Mindswap
this edition does not bear an isbn13: this should^W has been deleted

the isbn13 had not yet been invented by over a decade and a half when this edition was published.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Robert Sheckley - Mindswap
granada group mayflower books p/b second printing with new style logo, new

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 5/-
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

* find another copy and check whether sbn is quoted in the indicia

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
L. P. Davies - Who Is Lewis Pinder?
new american library signet imprint mmpb first printing

aka and originally "man out of nowhere" herbert jenkins h/cvr (1965), q.v.

cover art unsigned, uncredited grainy b+w photograph of man's head etc., face replaced by red field bearing title & author's name
cover price 60¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
L. P. Davies - Man Out Of Nowhere
° - mayflower books ltd, set up in the uk by dell (dell publishing inc. or their beneficial owner) in 1962,
was bought by granada, the uk tv-based conglomerate, in 1967
and transferred to the newly-organised granada publishing subsidiary in 1968 where it joined/was joined by panther books ltd, arco, rupert hart-davis/macgibbon/macgibbon & kee ltd., etc.

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Peter Saxon - Black Honey
n.b. no cat# of any kind, true of all five star p/bs, and strongly suggesting this was boxed out to their newsagents accounts by wholesalers, world distributors (manchester) (and possibly other newsagents wholesalers), and pretty soon thereafter remaindered; or else published as an instant remainder -
there being no systematic way to order in initial stock, nor restocks, of any particular book published under this imprint by pbs ltd, victoria mills, pollard street, manchester m4 7au (uk)

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
Peter Saxon - Black Honey
pbs ltd. five star books first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 25p, (check: overseas territories' prices)
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
William F. Nolan - The Pseudo-People
author field should^W has been varied to editor

ppint.
20th Feb 2025
Book
William F. Nolan - The Pseudo-People
author field should^W has been varied to editor

ppint.
19th Feb 2025
Book
Roger Zelazny - Damnation Alley
faber & faber (though there was only ever the one: geoffrey faber) h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited restricted palette (purple and black; title in white diagonally upwards)
cover (d-j) price £1.75
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

ppint.
18th Feb 2025
Book
Arthur C. Clarke - Sands Of Mars
transworld publishers corgi books first printing, first uk p/b edition, possibly first p/b edition

cover art
cover price 2/-
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
18th Feb 2025
Book
Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife
first stand-alone book publication was also in 1953, in h/cvr by twayne publishers.

ppint.
18th Feb 2025
Book
Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife
month and year of publication should^W has been corrected to december 1953

indicia publishing history states "lion edition published december, 1953"

ppint.
17th Feb 2025
Book
George O. Smith - Hellflower
the walter reade organization pyramid books mmpb third (stated second) printing over-all°, with new

cover art by jack gaughan (signed (rather faintly), credited as j. gaughan on back cover)
cat# X-1957 (hyphenated)
cover price 60¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° accounting of printings evidently ignores the first canadian printing

ppint.
17th Feb 2025
Book
George O. Smith - Hellflower
pyramid books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by bill rose (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cat# G298 (unhyphenated)
cover price 35¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


near-identical pyramid books mmpb 1958 first canadian printing differs:

cat# 567 (let into front cover in place of G298, on visibly lighter blue background)
indicia publishing history bears line:
pyramid books edition 1958

ppint.
17th Feb 2025
Book
Frederik Pohl - The Genius Beasts
novella published as by james maccreigh in future combined with science fiction stories vol.1 #5, 1/1951
the cover story, art by milton luros, with one b+w illustration by virgil finlay

ppint.
17th Feb 2025
Book
Frederik Pohl - The Genius Beasts
armchair fiction trade p/b first printing, first edition
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up)

cover art by milton luros (re-used from future combined with science fiction stories vol.1 #5, (1/1951))
cover price $12.95
½ 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.


doubled with "this world is taboo" edmond hamilton (1961), q.v.

ppint.
17th Feb 2025
Book
Murray Leinster - This World Is Taboo
armchair fiction trade p/b first printing, first edition thus, not first p/b edition
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up)

cover art unsigned, credited to ed valigursky (reused from ace books ace double D-525, (1961), q.v.)
cover price $12.95
½ 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.


doubled with "the genius bessts" frederik pohl (2014), q.v.

ppint.
16th Feb 2025
Book
Alan E. Nourse - Trouble On Titan
lancer books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library
cover price 50¢
176pp. (check). including 8pp. titles, indicia, "i have never been there" nf introduction by the author, etc.


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