ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Maximum Effort | random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, or i just haven't spotted it, credited)
cover price $4.75 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $3.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
394pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer also 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 edition: november 1987
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Black Magician | random house group ballantine books mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, credited)
cover price $3.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
394pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
see also indicia printing history to determine if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition, first edition: november 1986
refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 11/1987 reprinting
cover price $2.95
stated second printing
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Cunningham Equations | the blaise cunningham trilogy #1:
#1: ''the cunningham equation'' (1986), (this book)
#2: ''the black magician'' (1986), q.v.
#3: ''maximum effort'' (1987), q.v.
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Cunningham Equations | random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by barclay shaw (signed with his linked reversed-s/b symbol, credited)
cover price $3.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer also 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 edition & first time in print
distinguish also thereby from the near-identical wholly merkin-printed 11/1987 third printing,
so-stated in indicia
retrospectively deeming one of the first edition printings (unspecified) to've been the second printing
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Takeover | near/very near future/minor variation on present-day fiction if drumpelstiltskin is re-elected, but though published as category science fiction, yr hmbl srppnt. only saw this as a hole-punched cut-out remainder in general fiction dumpbins, and doesn't recall having ever heard any sf reader(s) talking about it.
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Takeover | berkley publishing group ace science fiction series mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by greg theakston (unsigned, credited)
cover price $2.75
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Man Who Corrupted Earth | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by attila hejja (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
320pp. (check) including four unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man | n.b. robert hale did not anglicize the title.
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man | robert hale first printing, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by helen hale (family member) (unsigned, credited on d-j flap)
cover (d-j) price £6.75
176pp. (check) including four unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man | berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by richard powers signed powers laz/org, uncredited
cover price 95¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Blue Face | originally published under the title, ''chapayeca'' in doubleday h/cvr (u.s.a. 1971), q.v.
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Blue Face | daw books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited; seen attributed to karel thole, but no reason given
cover price 95¢
near-meaningless daw books collector no.17
128pp. 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, canadian variant states first printing, august, 1972
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ppint. 10th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think | mad friend #8, ''nobody believes an indian'' (short story) f&sf vol.38 #5, 5/1970,
and
mad friend #9(?), ''written on the water,'' (ss) iamsf vol.5 #9, 31/8/1981,
both omitted, for some strange reason...
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb at least third printing over-all, but declared first
cover art by steve (stephen) hickman (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.95
280pp. (check) including unnumbered titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books near-identical 8/1981 mmpb at least fourth printing over-all, but declared second by printing number line differs:
isbn 0-441-76097-X
cat# 76097
cover price $2.25
indicia publishing history states:
this ace printing august 1981
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream | ace books mmpb undated°, unknown ordinality of printing but at least the second printing†
cover art by frank kelly freas (unsigned, uncredited; was confirmed by his agent who possessed the signed painting)
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - entered date year of publication of this printing taken from locus #69, 8/12/1970
† - if the ace books five-digit system were being operated consistently, M-109 would've been deemed to've been a five-digit cat# ending in 0 or in 5, if there were stocks remaining when the system was introduced in 1970, and each subsequent printing would have incremented this number by one;
if there was zero stock of the first printing at the inception of the five-digit system, and it was no longer on the catalog/order form (was ''out of print''), the first reprinting would've been allocated a first printing cat#, and subsequent printings incremented this number by one each time.
the cat# of the next known printing is 76092; so 76094 could simply've been an error for 76091...‡
(‡ - but there is, however, (a small amount of) evidence suggesting the very first ace five-digit cat#s were allocated before the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system were fully worked out. . .)
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think | contents:
the ''mad friend'' series of short stories #1 through 7:
all first published in the magazine of fantasy & science-fiction:
the misfit (vol.17 #2, 2/1959), (atlas bre vol. i #1, 12/1959)
from caribou to carry-nation (vol.17 #5, 11/1959), (venture atlas bre #13, 9/1964)
the galactic calabash (vol.18 #1, 1/1960), (atlas bre vol. i #5, 4/1960)
the sign of the goose (vol.19 #2, 8/1960), (atlas bre vol. ii #1, 12/1960)
the country boy (vol.20 #5, 5/1961)
the world must never know (vol.24 #4, 4/1963)
the third bubble (f&sf vol.26 #6, 6/1964)
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
reprint collection of a series of seven short stories, each with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
cover art by jack gaughan (signed with jg digraph, easily guillotined off bottom in production, uncredited)
b+w frontispiece, seven interior illustrations also by jack gaughan, mostly signed with his digraph
cover price 45¢
½ (⅓!) 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia, illustrations etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by jack gaughan signed with his jg digraph, obscured by the author's first initial, uncredited)
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan
cover price 45¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with ''stranger than you think'' g. c. edmondson (1965), q.v.
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - To Sail The Century Sea | Reviewsomewhat delayed sequel to ''the ship that sailed the time stream'' (1965), q.v.
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ppint. 9th Dec 2023 | | BookG. C. Edmondson - To Sail The Century Sea | berkley publishing group° ace books p/b first printing, first edition
cover art by paul alexander (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''analog 8'' ed. hans joachim albers (moewig, germany 1984), q.v.)
cover price $2.25
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - check
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookTheodore Sturgeon - A Way Home | contents:
introduction (nf) theodore sturgeon
unite and conquer (novelette) astounding vol.xxxxii #2, 10/1948, four b+w illustrations by orban
special aptitude (short story) other worlds vol.3 #2, 3/1951, as ''last laugh'' by ted sturgeon
mewhu's jet (ntte) astounding vol.xxxviii #3, 11/1946, four b+w illustrations by swenson
hurricane trio (ntte) galaxy vol.10 #1, 4/1955, three b+w illustrations by william (bill) ashman
...and my fear is great... (novella) beyond vol.1 #1, 7/1953, six b+w illustrations by ashman; beyond strato bre #1, 1/1954
minority report (ntte) astounding vol. xxxxiii #4, 6/1949
the hurkle is a happy beast (ss) the magazine of fantasy (later f&sf) vol.1 #1, fall (10/)1949
thunder and roses (ntte) astounding vol. xxxx #3, 11/1947
bulkhead (ntte) galaxy vol.9 #6, 3/1955, three b+w illustrations by ashman,; galaxy strato bre #29, 8/1955, one illustration only; both as ''who?''
tiny and the monster (ntte) astounding vol. xxxix #3, 5/1947, four b+w illustrations by ed cartier
a way home (ss) amazing vol.25 #4, 4-5/1953 as ''the way home'', two b+w illustrations by d. (david) stone
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookJerry Sohl - The Transcendent Man | bantam books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
art by bob abbett (signed abbett, uncredited)
cover price 35¢
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
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 bantam edition published august 1959
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness | the copyright date niggles; check this wasn't first published in 2012, and the 2022 is a tyop/misprint
edit in stronger light: they're my misreadings and should^W have been corrected to 2012 & 2013
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness | the lake district mysteries #1 (unspecified):
in order of first publication date:
#1: ''the windermere witness'' (2012), (this novel)
#2: ''the ambleside alibi'' (2013), q.v.
#3: ''the coniston case'' (2014), q.v.
#4: ''the troutbeck testimony'' (2015), q.v.
#5: ''the hawkshead hostage'' (2016), q.v.
#6: ''the bowness bequest'' (2017), q.v.
#7: ''the stavely suspect'' (2018), q.v.
#8: ''the grasmere grudge'' (2019), q.v.
#9: ''the patterdale plot'' (2020), q.v.
#10: ''the threlkeld theory'' (2022), q.v.
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness | allison & busby p/b first printing, first p/b edition°
dedication: for vronny - hoping we're still friends after two weeks in a car together.
cover art unsigned photographic © brett charlton/stockphoto
cover price £7.99
416pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p advertising, 1p blank
distinguish between at least three further undated near-identical printings by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael Avallone - The Living Bomb | ed noon series #11:
#1: ''the tall dolores'' michael avallone (1953), q.v.
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael Avallone - The Living Bomb | publisher is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to brown, watson
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael Avallone - The Living Bomb | brown, watson p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art (unsigned or indecipherable, uncredited)
cover price 3/6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
not a digit books imprint p/b, though cat#ed following on in the same sequence; brown, watson ltd. had closed down the digit books imprint possibly as a result of the collapse of thorpe & porter ltd. news distributors owing their suppliers for between three and six months stock - and possibly more.
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ppint. 5th Dec 2023 | | BookWoody Allen - A Proposito Di Niente | english title needs correcting to ''apropos of nothing''
(i.e. the '' - autobiography'' should be deleted)
after which bookcat should sort this edition correctly together with all the other editions
03:30 6/12/2023: edit: this now done & being sorted together ok.
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ppint. 5th Dec 2023 | | BookVirginia Kidd - The Eye Of The Heron And Other Stories | ursula le guin's by-line on the front cover (as ursula k. le guin) is set in purpley-mauve type far larger than the editorial by-line of virginia kidd's, or the ''and other stories'' - as, indeed, is the title of ursula le guin's novel, now adopted as the greater part of that for the anthology, in a somewhat more somber blue.
whilst this may well have made sense as a commercial decision by collins/granada books' editorial, it is undoubtedly liable to have confused a fair number of people, and will doubtless continue to do so.
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