ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Candy Man | victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art none; typographical in magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field
cover (d-j) price £1.80
192pp. including titles, indicia, end p., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Candy Man | ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 95¢
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia 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: june, 1971
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Another End | ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 95¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check title page, indicia for statement (that) ballantine books (is) an intext publisher
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Light A Last Candle | universal-tandem tandem books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by chris achilleos (unsigned, uncredited, was on the artist's website)
cover price 25p (no? overseas territories prices?)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Light A Last Candle | rapp & whiting first printing, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by lawrence edwards (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £1.40/28s.
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookVincent King - Light A Last Candle | ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check title page, indicia for statement (that) ballantine books (is) an intext publisher
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Graves - Watch The Northwind Rise | avon mmpb third printing with new
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, credited as bob foster)
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - Tomorrow Times Seven | contents:
the haunted corpse (short story) galaxy vol.13 #3, 1/1957, one b+w illustration by jack gaughan
the middle of nowhere (ss) galaxy vol.10 #2, 5/1955, three b+w illustrations by fred kirberger
the gentle venusian (ss) galaxy vol.16 #3, 6/1958; strato bre #65 both: as ''the gentlest unpeople''; three b+w illustrations by wallace wood (bre only two of these)
the day of the boomer dukes (ss) future #30, 8/1956, with one b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
survival kit (novelette) galaxy vol.14 #1, 5/1957; strato bre #52; both three b+w illustrations by jack gaughan
the knights of arthur (ntte) galaxy vol.15 #3, 1/1958; strato bre #60; both: three b+w illustrations by don martin
to see another mountain (ss) f&sf vol.16 #4, 4/1959; venture atlas bre #13, 9/1964
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - The Age Of The Pussyfoot | ballantine books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, shared from/with trident press h/cvr first edition d-j art)
cover price 75¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established in/by the history, both state first ballantine printing: october, 1969
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Silverberg - The Masks Of Time | w. h. allen & co. star books p/b first printing, third printing of the tandem books p/b suitably emended, with new
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited, style is of one of his unmistakable period's, and attributed online, being inter alia featured in pulpcrush's bruce pennington slide-show on utube)
cover price £1.50, £1.55 malta, $4.50 australia
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Silverberg - The Masks Of Time | tandem books p/b second printing, first using the original title, with new
cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, uncredited; attribution found via online search)
cover price 80p
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
isbn incorporates the previous tandem p/b cat#, which itself included the sbn's identical checksum digit
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Silverberg - Vornan-19 | universal-tandem publishing tandem books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by chris achilleos (unsigned, credited to c. achilleos)
cover price 30p, 95c australia, 95c new zealand, $1.25 canada
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising & mail-order information
cat# on cover includes the sbn checksum digit
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Silverberg - Vornan-19 | sidgwick & jackson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art none, typographical and line-drawn frame in dark blue upon silver-coloured field
cover (d-j) price £1.50
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert Silverberg - The Masks Of Time | ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned sfacbs, uncredited; given in ''infinite worlds'' vincent difate (1997), q.v.)
cover price 75¢
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - Thalia | ein ullstein buch, apparently first german language edition
cover art by frank frazetta (part of signature visible) (re-used from ''child of the sun'' kyle onstott, lance horner (1966); (fawcett gold medal mmpb 1972), q.v.)
cover design by ingrid roheling (unsigned, credited)
cover price dm 2,80
144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including nf afterword by robert a. heinlein (german translation, presumably by ingrid rothmann, of the english language nf introduction)
german translation ©1973 by ullstein, book printed and published 1974
month of publication not given, taken from science fiction times #134
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected from 1952 to 1960.
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | baen publishing enterprises baen books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by doug anderson
cover price (canada $5.50) u.s. $4.50
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction by robert a. heinlein, etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1960
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by steve (stephen) hickman (credited)
cover price $1.95
248pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction by robert a. heinlein, etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1960
the short novel version ''serialized'' in startling stories vol.25 #3, 4/1952, may've been abridged - or an earlier, somewhat shorter - version; i've not attempted to compare the word-counts.
the first edition is the avalon books h/cvr published by thomas bouregy & co. in h/cvr in 1960
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - The Glory That Was | thomas bouregy & co. avalon books h/cvr first printing 1960, first edition
cover (d-j) art by ed emshwiller (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price $2.95
224pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction by robert a. heinlein, etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookA. E. Van Vogt - The Proxy Intelligence And Other Mindbenders | contents:
the proxy intelligence (novella) if vol.18 #10, 10/1968
the problem professor (novelette) , thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxiv #3, 8/1949; thrilling wonder stories bre 12/1949; both: as ''project spaceship''
rebirth: earth (ntte) astounding vol. xxx #4, 12/1942 as ''the flight that failed'' by e. mayne hull
the gryb (ntte) astounding vol. xxv #2, 4/1940 as ''repetition'' (a rull series story)
the invisibility gambit (ntte) astounding vol. xxxiv #2, 4/1943 as ''abdication'' by e. mayne hull (an artur blord series story)
the star-saint (ntte) planet stories vol.4 #11, 3/1951
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings | warner books mmpb second printing, accounted fourth printing as the earlier paperback library mmpb printings are included in the accounting
cover art by FmA (?FmΔ?) (signed, retained from previous warner books printing; in new cover design)
cover price $2.25
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check indicia publishing history printing details: i do not know of a canadian-carcassed variant of this printing, but it's possible one exists.
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings | warner books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, accounted the third printings as warner books included the two previous paperback library mmpb printings in the accounting
cover art by ''FmA'' (?FmΔ?) (signed, uncredited; not sfaik as-yet further identified)
cover price $1.25
192pp. including titles, indicia 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 third printing: september 1975
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings | coronet communications/warner group paperback library mmpb second printing with new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed)
cover price 75¢
192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookFelix Mendelsohn Jr. - Superbaby | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookHughes Cooper - Sexmax | new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (re-used from paperback library mmpb first edition)
cover price 6/- 30p, pts 75 spain, $1.00 australia, 85c new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
chosen by-line of george hughes cooper, jr; later changed his name to george hill leonard
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookHughes Cooper - Sexmax | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; credit from science fiction monthly vol.1 #3, 3/1974 where tyopped c. foster)
cover price 75¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City | ballantine books mmpb first printing(s) sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition°
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed bfoster, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
320pp. (check) including (i)-viii pp. titles, indicia, nf introduction by edward lasker, nf foreword by the author, etc; 5 end pp. including author's note, and ''the pieces'' (annotated dramatis personae) by john brunner, end p. advertising iirc (check)
° - apparently simultaneous from its indicia, the near-identical first canadian-carcassed printing is in later printings identified as having been printed 2/1966: distinguish by reference to the indicia publishing history where it is stated printed in canada, referring to the carcase
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookDavid Gerrold - Alternities | dell mmpb likely simultaneous first printings, first edition
original anthology of fifteen short stories and a novelette, nf introduction by david gerrold
dedication:
for judy-lynn and lester del rey, about whom i care very much, and this is just my way of saying so
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; attributed on sciencefictionruminations.com/2012/02/27/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-the-art-of-robert-foster)
cover price 95¢
176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
indicia publishing history states the book was printed in the u.s. unqualifiedly
stephen goldin is credited as associate editor only
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