this is the brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b first printing published ~1957 it bears no cat#
the attributed cat# R521 is that of the second printing, and not correctly given to this first printing.
brown, watson ltd. habitually allocated new cat#s to each new printing; the letter indicates the cover price, (none = 1'6 but these likely bear no cat# at all, just as some - the earliest - of the 2/- don't)
digit books numbering started in 4/1958 with cat# D139 (source aligemkr-books.blogspot.com)
digit books cat# price code letters: D = 2/-, R = 2'6
hearst corporation avon books avon imprint mmpb first printing, not first merkin p/b edition, not first avon books edition
cover art by clyde caldwell (signed with his fancified c symbol, uncredited)
cover price $1.95
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
hearst corporation avon books equinox imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first merkin p/b edition
sf rediscovery series #15
cover art by bill (william) maughan (unsigned, miscredited as ''bill maugham'')
cat# 26187 (26625 canada)
cover price $1.95 ($2.25 canada)
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b undated° second printing with new cat#, new
cover art by enrich torres-prat (signed henrySI, uncredited)†
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
° - entered year presumably taken from tuck
† - artist's signature seen reported as being henry '57, but the cover art appears to've been painted for this novel, is not reported published anywhere in 1957, and henry/enric/enrich torres-prat worked for (? was represented by ?) the spanish arts agency, selecciones illustradas. . .
cover art by jill bauman (unsigned, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.606
cover price ($3.50 canada) • u.s. $2.95
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. time-line chronology (nf-in-f) kate filipowicz, advertising
kate filipowicz' sime~gen chronology includes the stories published to date, plus those planned but then not yet written; some of the latter have yet to appear, as of 12/2023
cover art by walter velez (unsigned°, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.662
cover price ($3.95 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
256pp. (check) including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - the full artwork may well be signed; walter velez generally did sign his cover art paintings
my word (nf introduction) h. l. gold (1962; original to this anthology sfaik)
small lords (novelette) frederik pohl, science fiction quarterly vol.4 #6, 2/1957, a b+w illustration by (frank) kelly freas
sentiment, inc. (ntte) poul anderson, (later the original) science fiction stories #1, (6/)1953
name your tiger (ntte) milton lesser, science fiction quarterly vol.5 #1, 5/1957, a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
iron man (short story) eando binder, future science fiction #28, 12/1955 (written by otto binder)
the hunted ones (ntte) mack reynolds, the original science fiction stories vol.10 #5, 11/1959
hail to the chief (novella) sam sackett, future sf vol.5 #1, 6/1954, a b+w illustration by freas
impractical joke (ntte) l. sprague de camp, future science fiction #29, 4/1956, a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes αnd a short story, nf introduction by h. l. gold
cover art by josh kirby (unsigned°, uncredited; in drl's joshlist.html inter alia)
cover price 3/6, 60c australia, 4/6 (45c) new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
° - complete artwork liable to be signed kirby - if still extant, and discovered
dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes and a novella, nf introduction by h. l. gold
cover (d-j) art by christopher evans (unsigned, credited for cover design on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j): price 15/-
174pp. (check) including pp. (i-vii) titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
belmont productions belmont books mmpb 2/1962 first printing, first edition
reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes and a novella, with introduction by h. l. gold
cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, uncredited; confirmed by the artist's son)
cover price 50¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
sally (short story) isaac asimov, fantastic vol.2 #3, 5-6/1953
''you'll never go home again!'' (ss) clifford simak, fantastic adventures vol. 13 #7, 7/1951 aka ''beachhead''
the eye of tandyla (novelette) l. sprague de camp, fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1951
tomorrow and tomorrow (ss) ray bradbury, fantastic adventures vol. 9 #3, 5/1947
the hungry eye (ntte) robert bloch, fantastic vol.8 #5, 5/1959
the dark room (ntte) theodore sturgeon, fantastic vol.2 #4, 7-8/1953
the eternal eve (ntte) john wyndham, amazing vol.24 #9, 9/1950, amazing bre #4, 11/1950
i'm looking for ''jeff'' (ss) fritz leiber, fantastic vol.1 #2, fall/1952
berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited as richard van dongen; retained from playboy mmpbs)
cover price $2.95
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (?nf-in-f,) advertising
playboy press playboy paperbacks imprint mmpb stated second printing (account includes the playboy press paperbacks imprint mmpb first p/b edition) with new cat#, isbn but retaining
cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, still credited to richard van dongen)
cover price $2.50
320pp. (check) including titles, author's note, dramatis personae, vocabulary etc.
playboy press paperbacks imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited as richard van dongen)
cover price $2.25
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, author's note, dramatis personae, vocabulary etc.
daw books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art by don maitz
near-meaningless daw books collector no.556
cover price ($3.50 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
208pp. (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 temporal priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, december 1983
canadian-carcassed copies drop ''1'' from the printing number line, formally identifying them as the second printing
omnibus editions:
omnibus of #1, #03, #2:
#O1: ''sime~gen: the unity trilogy'' #1 jacqueline lichtenberg, #03 jean lorrah, #2 by both (2003), q.v.
announced but unpublished omnibus editions:
to have been of #6, #5, & ''best of fools'' (novelette), which appeared in #C:
scheduled for publication in 2005 but did not appear;
#O2: ''sime~gen: to kiss or to kill''
to have been of #3, #4, #5:
#O3: ''digen farris ambrov zeor'' (title may've been provisional) (not known to've been scheduled)
meisha merlin, the publisher, ceased trading completely in 2007
there was then a brief hiatus in the publishing - and perhaps in the authors' writing - schedule(s):
#6: ''personal recognizance'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v.
#7: ''to kiss or to kill'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v.
#8: ''the farris channel'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v.
#6 published in a ''double'' with:
#C: ''the story untold: and other sime-gen stories'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v.
original anthology:
#A: ''fear and courage: fourteen writers explore sime-gen'' eds. zoe farris, karen l. macleod (2015), q.v.
there are two more later titles which seem to be sime~gen-related, but which yr hmbl srppnt.'s never seen - and about which, knows next-to-nothing:
clear springs chronicles trilogy:
CS#1: ''a change of tactics'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2017), q.v.
CS#2: ''a shift of means'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2019), q.v.
CS#3: (naught yet known)
possibly as-yet uncollected sime~gen stories°:
by jacqueline lichtenberg:
''operation high time'' (novelette) if vol.19 #1, 1/1969
''the channel's exemption'' (novelette) galileo #4, 7/1977, with illustration by stephen fabian
° - i don't - yet - know the contents of ''fear and courage'', the anthology published in 2015
belmont tower mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
printed from the 1967 belmont mmpb typesetting, suitably modified, by the successor corporation
reprint anthology of four novelettes and four short stories
cover art by george alvara (signed alvara, but unreadable as overlaid by ''de camp''; uncredited)
cover price 75¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising