ppint. 19th Dec 2023 | | BookFritz Leiber - Gather, Darkness! | serialised in astounding vol. xxxi #3, #4, #5; 5/1943, 6/1943, 7/1943
part one is the cover story, art by william timmins as "timmins",
each part has its own three b+w illustrations by f. (frank) kramer
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth | sidgwick & jackson p/b second printing, drops the cat# from the spine, bears new isbn, and new typography on
cover art by tim white (unsigned, likely credited in tiny print on back cover by spine (check))
cover price 95p, $2.45 new zealand
isbn 0-283-98623-9
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
still/again distributed by nel/new english library and bears nel logo on cover
indicia publishing history adds line:
reprinted february 1980
sidgwick & jackson p/b near-identical 1983 thrid printing differs:
cover price £1.50 (any overseas territories prices?)
indicia publishing history adds line:
reprinted february 1983
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth | sidgwick & jackson p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
distributed by nel (new english library) and cover bears distributor nel's logo but declares published by sidgwick & jackson in association with new english library; title page bears sidgwick & jackson; indicia states published in this edition in 1976 by sidgwick and jackson limited
cover art by tim white (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced sans typography in ''the science fiction and fantasy world of tim white'' tim white (1981), q.v.)
cover price 70p, 77p rep.(ublic) of ireland, pts 185 spain, 75p gibraltar, 75c malta, 750 mils cyprus, $1.95 australia, $2.00 new zealand, $4.20 trinidad (w.i.)
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth | tbl group sphere books p/b fifth (check) printing with new isbn, new
cover art by david a. hardy
cover price 30p, 7/25 east africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.25 canada
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth | tbl group sphere books p/b fourth printing, with new cat#, new
cover art unsigned, uncredited, of spacewalking space-suited human tethered to spaceship broadside-on behind them, with small second spacewalking astronaut in distance
cover price 30p, 7/25 east africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand
176p. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
first sphere books edition 1968;
indicia gives printing history:
reprinted july 1968, july 1970, june 1972
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookArthur C. Clarke - Expedition To Earth | tbl (thomson books ltd.) group sphere books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by robert mccall (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from new american library h/cvr d-j rotated clockwise 90° (1968), q.v.)
cover price 5/-, 6/00s east africa, r0.60 south africa, 80c australia, 65c new zealand
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising mail order service and oversea agencies distributing sphere books worldwide
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookClifford D. Simak - Destiny Doll | daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition
cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, attributed)
cover price $2.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
208pp. (check°) including titles, indicia etc, (° may not include:) end pp. advertising
refer also to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
canadian-carcassed variant drops the first digit, ''1'', from the printing number line, formally identifying these as the simultaneous second printing
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookClifford D. Simak - Destiny Doll | berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint simultaneous first mmpb printings, first p/b edition
cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik)
cover price 75¢
sbn 425-02103-3 in indicia is arithmetically identical to the simply derivable isbn10
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
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 berkley medallion edition, january, 1972
refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from undated near-identical mmpb second printing, which is stated
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookClifford D. Simak - Destiny Doll | ''serialized'' as ''reality doll'' in worlds of fantasy vol.1 #4, spring (3)/1971
with one b+w illustration by jack gaughan
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ppint. 18th Dec 2023 | | BookThe Editors Of Galaxy Magazine - The Best From Galaxy Volume II | the macfarlane, sheckley and taves are the novelettes.
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ppint. 17th Dec 2023 | | BookClifford D. Simak - Destiny Doll | unbound signatures of this edition of ''destiny doll'' collected together with those of ''the dreaming earth'' john brunner (1963), q.v. and those of ''nightwings'' robert silverberg (1969), q.v. and published in the omnibus h/cvr bind-up, ''science fiction special 10'' (1974), q.v.
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ppint. 17th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert Silverberg - Nightwings | unbound signatures of this edition of ''nightwings'' collected together with those of ''the dreaming earth'' john brunner (1963), q.v. and ''destiny doll'' clifford d. simak (1971), q.v. in the omnibus h/cvr bind-up, ''science fiction special 10'' (1974), q.v.
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ppint. 17th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert Silverberg - Nightwings | sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art restricted palate (blue & green on unprinted white ground) by chris gilbert
cover (d-j) price £1.60
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 17th Dec 2023 | | BookClifford D. Simak - Destiny Doll | sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by (unsigned, possibly credited on d-j flap?; some spot blue on b+w photographic of a doll on non-metallic ''silver'' ground)
cover (d-j) price £1.60 (re-check)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 17th Dec 2023 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Dreaming Earth | unbound signatures of this edition of ''the dreaming earth'' were collected together with those of ''nightwings'' robert silverberg (1969), q.v. and ''destiny doll'' clifford d. simak (1971), q.v., in the omnibus h/cvr bind-up, ''science fiction special 10'' sidgwick & jackson h/cvr (1974), q.v.
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ppint. 16th Dec 2023 | | BookVarious Authors - The Secret | non-fiction: a bestiary of mythological animals and monsters, their circumstances and the non-human races associated with them; plus an account of the designing and creation of the twelve ''treasures'' and the clues to finding the twelve places in the u.s.a. where they were hidden/buried.
refer to ''masquerade'' kit williams (1979), q.v. for the likely major inspiration for this book, the creation of modern treasures and their burial, & the treasure hunt clues.
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ppint. 16th Dec 2023 | | BookVarious Authors - The Secret | sculptress of the ''treasures'': joellen trilling, photographer: ben asen
book packager & book packager editor: byron preiss
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ppint. 16th Dec 2023 | | BookVarious Authors - The Secret | bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint tp/b first printing, first edition
cover art by john jude palencar (unsigned, credited)
cover price $9.95, $10.95 canada
interior illustrations by overton loyd (?lloyd?), john jude palencar, john pierard
224pp. including titles, indicia, interior illustrations etc.
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ppint. 16th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - First Channel | the full sime~gen series to date listed,
and
all the mmpb editions i've sold/read/seen listed,
and all the links to & fro made & tested;
i've also seen & held two or three of the doubleday h/cvr first editions, but didn't record which, let alone the vital statisticia of these, and i don't yet know the contents of ''fear and courage'', the 2015 anthology.
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ppint. 16th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - First Channel | berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by paul alexander (signed, now on spine; retained from playboy press first mmpb edition)
cover price ($3.75 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Mahogany Trinose | berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by kirk reinert (signed, retained from the playboy press paperbacks mmpb)
cover price ($3.75 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - House Of Zeor | berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by paul alexander (signed, retained from playboy press paperbacks mmpb edition)
cover price ($3.95 canada) • $2.75 u.s.
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
the putnam-berkley publishing group (possibly seagram or mca-owned?) bought playboy press' book-publishing division and folded the playboy press paperbacks & playboy paperbacks into their berkley books & ace books imprints.
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - House Of Zeor | playboy press paperbacks mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
slightly revised, as per author's note
cover art by paul alexander (signed, uncredited)
cat# 16801
cover price $2.25
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - House Of Zeor | simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings, first p/b edition
cover art by alan magee (signed, )
cover price $1.75
224pp. 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 stating first publication/printing date of june 1977
canadian-carcassed copies bear a white maple leaf symbol top of front cover near the spine stating printed in canada; this may not refer to the card cover; check any statement elsewhere on the card cover, including on inside front & back
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - RenSime | sime~gen main series #5:
#01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Mahogany Trinose | sime~gen main series #4:
#01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Mahogany Trinose | playboy press playboy paperbacks mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by kirk reinert (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.50
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Unto Zeor, Forever | sime~gen main series #3:
#01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Zelerod's Doom | sime~gen main series #2:
#01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
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ppint. 15th Dec 2023 | | BookJacqueline Lichtenberg - Zelerod's Doom | daw books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by walter velez (may be signed on back cover, credited)
cover price ($4.95 canada) • $3.50 u.s.
near-meaningless daw books collector no.682
288pp.(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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