ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookJoe 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.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookJoe 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.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookJoe 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.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookJoe Millard - The Devil's Dollar Sign | a somewhat belated "thank-you, david whiteley".
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookTerry 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.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookJoe 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.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2025 |  | BookTodhunter 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookMilton 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
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookMurray Leinster - Pariah Planet | novella first published in amazing stories vol.35 #7, 7/1961 with three b+w illustrations by virgil finlay
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookMurray 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookMilton 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookRobert 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
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookRobert 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookRobert 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
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookL. 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookL. 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.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookPeter 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)
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookPeter 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
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookWilliam F. Nolan - The Pseudo-People | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 20th Feb 2025 |  | BookWilliam F. Nolan - The Pseudo-People | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 19th Feb 2025 |  | BookRoger 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
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ppint. 18th Feb 2025 |  | BookArthur 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
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ppint. 18th Feb 2025 |  | BookFritz Leiber - Conjure Wife | first stand-alone book publication was also in 1953, in h/cvr by twayne publishers.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2025 |  | BookFritz 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"
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ppint. 17th Feb 2025 |  | BookGeorge 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
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ppint. 17th Feb 2025 |  | BookGeorge 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
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ppint. 17th Feb 2025 |  | BookFrederik 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
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ppint. 17th Feb 2025 |  | BookFrederik 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.
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ppint. 17th Feb 2025 |  | BookMurray 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.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookAlan 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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