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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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookJohn James - The Bridge Of Sand | london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books first printing, first p/b edition
cover art
cover price
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookJohn James - The Bridge Of Sand | london weekend television hutchinson publishing group hutchinson h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookJohn James - Men Went To Cattraeth | universal-tandem publishing tandem books imprint uk p/b, first p/b edition
cover art
cover price°
224pp? (° fish it out and check!) including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookEdmond Hamilton - Battle For The Stars | armchair fiction tp/b first printing, not first p/b edition, first edition thus
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up)
cover art by malcolm smith (re-used from imagination vol.7 #3, (7/1956), q.v.)
cover price $12.95
½ 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "border, breed nor birth" mack reynolds (1972), q.v.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookMack Reynolds - Border, Breed Nor Birth | homer crawford/north african trilogy #2:
#1: "blackman's burden" (1972), (½ this book)
#2: "border, breed nor birth" (1972), (½ this book)
#3: "the best ye breed" (1978), q.v
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookMack Reynolds - Blackman's Burden | homer crawford/north african trilogy #1:
#1: "blackman's burden" (1972), (½ this book)
#2: "border, breed nor birth" (1972), (½ this book)
#3: "the best ye breed" (1978), q.v
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookMack Reynolds - Border, Breed Nor Birth | homer crawford/north african trilogy #2:
#1: "blackman's burden" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookMack Reynolds - Border, Breed Nor Birth | armchair fiction trade p/b first printing, first edition thus
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up)
cover art by ian miller (reused from ace books ace double 06612, (8/1972), q.v.)
cover price $12.95
½ 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "battle for the stars" edmond hamilton (1961), q.v.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Universe Wreckers | serialised in amazing stories vol.5 #2, #3, #4; 5, 6, 7/1930;
part one is the cover story, art by leo morey; each part has two b+w illustrations by h. w. wesso
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Universe Wreckers | armchair fiction tp/b first printing, first stand-alone edition
armchair fiction classic science fiction series #64
cover art by leo morey (re-used from amazing stories vol.5 #2, 5/1930)
cover price $12.95
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 16th Feb 2025 |  | BookJ. Hunter Holly - The Running Man | armchair fiction first printing, first tp/b edition
half an armchair fiction double with two front covers (these and the texts all the same way up)
cover art by ralph brillhart (re-used from the monarch books mmpb cover art, 1963)
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "the mad robot" william p. mcgivern (2013), q.v.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookWilliam P. McGivern - The Mad Robot | armchair fiction tp/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 robert fuqua (re-used from amazing stories vol.18 #1, 1/1944)
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "the running man" joan hunter holly (1963), q.v.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Starcombers | novella first published in science fiction adventures vol.1 #6, 12/1956;
science fiction adventures (bre) #5, 11/1958 (starting with #6, this ceased being a reprint magazine)
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookRay Cummings - The White Invaders | 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 h. w. wesso (reused from astounding stories vol.8 #3, 12/1931)
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "outpost infinity" raymond f. jones (2014), q.v.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookRaymond F. Jones - Outpost Infinity | 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 lawrence (lawrence sterne stevens), reused from super science stories vol.6 #2, 1/1950)
cover price $12.95
½ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
doubled with "the white invaders" ray cummings (2007), q.v.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookRaymond F. Jones - The River And The Dream | harlequin books laser books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
laser books series #54
cover art by frank kelly freas (signed & dated kelly freas ©76, credited as kelly freas)
cover price 1.25 (= $1.25)
192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookTim Powers - Epitaph In Rust | novel considerably cut by roger elwood, laser books editor, both for length and to censor text.
text restored - not rewritten - when published as ''an epitaph in rust'' tim powers (1986), q.v.
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ppint. 15th Feb 2025 |  | BookJerry Sohl - I, Aleppo | harlequin books laser books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
laser books series #35
cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed, credited)
cover price .95 (95¢)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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