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ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb timescape imprint first printing, accounted pocket books mmpb second printing° cover art by gerry daly (signed) (retained from near-identical pocket books simultaneous first printings) cover price $2.75 296pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia publishing history printing number line drops the digit ''1''
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first p/b edition cover art by gerry daly (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.75 probably canadadian-printed carcases, but stated merkin-printed, prob'ly merkin-printed covers, intended for distribution north of the parallel° cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution° 296pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - both bear full indicia publishing history first printing number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Fault Lines	simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint/series mmpb first printing, accounted pocket books mmpb second printing° cover art by carl lundgren (signed in line-drawn box) cover price $2.25 176 or 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia publishing history printing number line drops the digit ''1''
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Fault Lines	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by walter rane (signed w. dane, uncredited) cover price $1.75 176 or 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising published as general, not category, fiction
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book John T. Robertson - Freedom Is The Spur	john spencer & co. badger books imprint undated digest format p/b cover art cover price 2/- 160pp. digest format signatures stapled through gutters, plus paper cover
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Six-gun Solution	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 72742 00450 9 76851
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Dracula Caper	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 72742 00350 2 16616
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Wizard Of Rue Morgue	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 18926 00450 2 20704
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Wizard Of Sunset Strip	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 18926 00395 1 20702
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clewiston Test	london weekend television/hutchinson publishing group hutchinson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by gillian hills (unsigned, credited on back flap) cover (d-j) price £3.75 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clewiston Test	simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint undated° mmpb first printing, accounted second pocket books mmpb printing, preceded by and printing history accounting including simon & schuster pocket books non-timescape imprint, non-sf category pocket books 1977 mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by carl lundgren (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.50 224pp. (check) including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - publication date taken from locus #253, 2/1982
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book Arthur Ransome - Secret Water	first published november 1939 second impression november 1939 third impression november 1939 fourth impression november 1939 fifth impression october 1941 sixth impression april 1942 seventh impression september 1942 eighth impression october 1943 ... ... ... ... ''secret water'' was quite evidently extremely popular ''from the gecko''°, but n.b. i've not checked how early in ww2 paper rationing began to affect the size of publishers' print-runs. ° - a beautiful malapropism quite irresistible, given how well the amazons provided for timothy'advent in anticipation of his arrival, in the light of captain flint's warning...
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book Arthur Ransome - Secret Water	jonathan cape & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition dedication: to the busk family cover (d-j) art (my copy has long since lost its d-j) endpapers map unsigned, uncredited 42 b+w interior illustrations; some small, some full-page including maps (? arthur ransome?) cover (d-j) price 384pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, b+w frontispiece, table-of-contents, table of illustrations etc, 4 blank end pp, bound with colour-printed map front & rear endpapers between dark green-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, decoration, author & publishers logo blocked in gold on spine, title blocked in gold on front cloth° (° - this latter front cloth gold blocking dropped from some or all later impressions, title still impressed)
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 first published by george harrap & co. ltd., london 1942, q.v.
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 this first printing in h/cvr by george harrap & co. ltd., london in 1942 is ttbomk the first edition. it would have been distributed by them within the british empire - quite possibly excluding canada - probably including the west indies, but certainly to gibraltar, malta, egypt, anglo-egyptian sudan, kenya, uganda, tanganyika, northern & southern rhodesia, nyasaland, south africa, aden, india, australia & new zealand by sea, and - at least in theory - also to british guyana, british honduras, st. helena, montserrat, the falkland islands, and south georgia; and further, to territories outwith north america (possibly including canada) and the british empire in competition with any copies of the licenced doubleday doran h/cvr edition to which that estimable merkin publishing company bothered to export such wares, insofar as these might be, or were unoccupied by forces of, the axis powers...
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Weird Of The White Wolf	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by robert gould in uniform, decorated broad silver margined design cover price $2.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Weird Of The White Wolf	contents: the dream of earl aubec (short story) fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1964 as ''master of chaos'', one b+w illustration by virgil finlay the dreaming city (novelette) science fantasy #47, 6/1961, the cover story, art by brian lewis while the gods laugh (ntte) science fantasy #49, 10-11/1961 the singing citadel (ntte) in ''the fantastic swordsmen'' ed. l. sprague de camp (1967), q.v.
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - Legends From The End Of Time	w. h. allen/howard & wyndham star imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w interior illustrations by jill riches cover price 95p, £M1 malta, $3.50 australia, $3.30 new zealand 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising it is possible there was a near-identical second printing the same year: refer to indicia publishing history to see if the copy held is the first or the putative second 1979 printing
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - Legends From The End Of Time	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella cover art by bob pepper (signed, credited) interior b+w decorations (illustrations) by jill riches cover price $1.25 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 229 184pp. (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 daw printing, february, 1977/123456789
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East	lancashire county library copy book no. 938296, not rebound. in the granada tv reference library c.1974 last borrowing date-stamped 23/jan/1996 originally lent ''subject to early recall'' which meant that the loan was for one week, rather than the usual two weeks, and could not be renewed (though the book could be reserved, and borrowed again, once those ahead in the reservation queue had borrowed and returned it). later provided on monthly loan, perhaps to branch libraries, mobile (travelling) libraries, etc. stamped withdrawn from lancashire libraries, but this not dated. d-j missing.
ppint. 28th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East	george g. harrap & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, 1942, first edition 182 high holborn, london w.c.1 composed in aldine bembo type and printed by morrison & gibb, ltd. london & edinburgh dedication: to mr churchill in admiration and in wonder that he ever sleeps book production war economy standard (with lion couchant at top of line-printed frame) this book is produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards 192pp. including titles, indicia etc., plus b+w photographic plates, bound with endpapers between green cloth-covered boards
ppint. 25th Jan 2024		Book Tim Powers - The Stress Of Her Regard	harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint first general uk p/b edition with new cover art (unsigned; pull out & check if credited on back cover) cover price £5.99 (check for any overseas territories prices) 608pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising fwiw the (i)sbn is in the panther books ltd. (0-)586- prefix id-ed block.
ppint. 25th Jan 2024		Book Tim Powers - The Stress Of Her Regard	harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint yp/b first printing simultaneous first uk edition simultaneous with h/cvr bind-up of the same signatures cover art by mark salwowski (shared with d-j art of grafton h/cvr edition) cover price £8.99 432pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp.
ppint. 25th Jan 2024		Book Tim Powers - The Stress Of Her Regard	harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint h/cvr first printing, simultaneous first uk edition simultaneous with yp/b card bind-up of the same signatures cover (d-j) art by mark salwowski (shared with grafton yp/b cover art) cover (d-j) price £13.99 432pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 24th Jan 2024		Book Larry Niven - Crashlander	contents: ghost neutron star (novelette) if vol.16 #10, 10/1966, b+w illustration by adkins ghost (continued) at the core (ntte) if vol.16 #11, 11/1966, b+w illustration by adkins ghost (continued) flatlander (ntte) if vol.17 #3, 3/1967, b+w illustration by jack gaughan ghost (continued) grendel (ntte) in ''neutron star'' larry niven (1968), q.v. ghost (continued) the borderland of sol (ntte) analog vol. xciv #5, 1/1975, the cover story, art & 2 b+w illustrations by john schoenherr ghost (continued) procrustes (novella) in ''bridging the galaxies'' larry niven (1993), q.v., collection published at & for ''confrancisco'', the 51st worldcon, san francisco, usa (9/1993) ghost (concluded)
ppint. 24th Jan 2024		Book Larry Niven - Crashlander	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition reprint collection of five beowulf shaeffer known space novelettes and a novella, with new-written for this assemblage, the framing novelette, ''ghost'' (1994) cover art by don dixon (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price ($6.99 canada) $4.99 u.s. 288pp. (fish out and check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents? etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish betwixt the two first printings, one canadadian-carcassed intended for distribution north of the parallel, one wholly merkin-printed for general distribution, and further merkin and canadadian-printed reprintings, at least ten merkin and at least two canadian, stated as such; cover prices slowly rise to $7.99 u.s. ($9.99 canada) by the fourteenth printing
ppint. 23rd Jan 2024		Book David Jarrett - Witherwing	warner books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned, credited) b+w map unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.95 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jan 2024		Book David Jarrett - Witherwing	thomson books ltd. sphere books p/b first printing, first edition cover art by nick fox (pseudonym of nick bantock) (signed fox, uncredited) cover price 85p, 93½p eire, 90c malta, $2.75 australia, $2.75 new zealand, $1.95 canada 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jan 2024		Book Charles Eric Maine - The Darkest Of Nights	the science fiction book club first printing, not first h/cvr edition, for sale to club members by mail-order on an opt-out subscription basis not for sale nor distribution by way of the book or news trade to the general public cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (typography & small variant of his blob, in blue on white (unprinted) field) cover (d-j) price 6/- plus postage 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 23rd Jan 2024		Book Charles Eric Maine - The Darkest Of Nights	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover d-j) art (wrapper design by john woodcock, credited on d-j) cover (d-j) price 15/- 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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