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ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Virginia Kidd - The Eye Of The Heron And Other Stories	contents: prayer for my daughter (poem) marilyn hacker introduction (nf) virginia kidd no-one said forever (short story) cynthia felice the song of n'sardi-el (ss) diana l. paxson jubilee's story (ss) elizabeth a. lynn mab gallen recalled (ss) cherry wilder phoenix in the ashes (novelette) joan d. vinge ''the eye of the heron'' (novel) ursula k. le guin
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Virginia Kidd - The Eye Of The Heron And Other Stories	granada publishing panther books p/b first printing, first uk edition original anthology of a poem, four short stories, a novelette and a novel cover art by peter elson cover price £1.25, $4.75 australia, $4.75 new zealand 256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising near-identical second printing (1984) differs: cover price £1.95, $6.95 new zealand indicia publishing history notes second printing & year
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book James Blish - Vor	london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''hardware: the definitive sf works of chris foss'' (2011), q.v.) cover price 95p, $3.20 australia, $3.75 new zealand, $3.25 canada 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia publishing history miscredits the associated severn house h/cvr (1978) as the first uk edition
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book James Blish - Fallen Star	london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by chris foss (signed with his f, uncredited) cover price 60p, 65c malta, $1.80 australia, $1.75 new zealand, $1.75 canada 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book James Blish - Fallen Star	godfrey phillips, possibly also new american library, four square books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by edward mortelmans (signed mortelmans, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Nov 2023		Book James Blish - The Night Shapes	severn house first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned photo, possibly african tribal mask or fantastic version of, somewhat blue°) cover (d-j) price £3.95 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards ° - should any bookcatter possess or come across the d-j of this, please check the flaps for any credit; i didn't record any, but nor that there was none.
ppint. 29th Nov 2023		Book James Blish - The Night Shapes	fix-up of: the snake-headed spectre (novelette) virginia kidd, jungle stories summer/1949 as by v. k. emden serpent's fetish (short story) james blish, jungle stories vol.4 #3, winter (1948-9)
ppint. 28th Nov 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers	bantam doubleday dell group dell mmpb simultaneous second edition first printings sharing merkin-printed new cover art by david schleinkofer (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.25 canadian-carcassed copies for distribution north of the parallel cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. 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 new dell edition first printing---september 1980
ppint. 28th Nov 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers	penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art (photographic, not clearly credited) cover price 3'6 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising month of publication not given, taken from a penguin books website
ppint. 28th Nov 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - The Judgment Of Eve	simon & schuster h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by lawrence ratzkin (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $3.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 27th Nov 2023		Book Sydney J. Bounds - The Robot Brains	brown, watson ltd.'s digit books imprint was closed down late 1964; this may well've been connected with the bankruptcy of thorpe & porter ltd, the news wholesalers, owing their various book suppliers between three months (the normal maximum) and six months - or more - money for stock supplied on credit. brown, watson ltd. continued to publish uk paperback editions of books at a much slower rate, finally tailing off to none in about mid-late-1966. they continued to publish annuals (for the christmas trade, primarily), and were eventually absorbed into one arm or another of a sprawling octopus of the merkin publishing industry.
ppint. 27th Nov 2023		Book Oliver Anderson - Rotten Borough	withdrawn by the publishers under threat of legal action by or on behalf of a number of people living in and around grantham, including peregrine cust, the sixth lord brownlow.
ppint. 27th Nov 2023		Book Oliver Anderson - Rotten Borough	ivor nicholson & watson h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 26th Nov 2023		Book Paul Park - Soldiers Of Paradise	the starbridge chronicles #1: #1: ''the soldiers of paradise'' (1987), (this novel) #2: ''sugar rain'' (1989), q.v. #3: ''the cult of loving kindness'' (1991), q.v.
ppint. 26th Nov 2023		Book Paul Park - Soldiers Of Paradise	wm collins group or harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter elson (check) cover price £3.99 368pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Nov 2023		Book Paul Park - Soldiers Of Paradise	the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first merkin p/b edition cover art by gary ruddell cover price (canada $4.95) u.s. $3.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Nov 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Up The Line	victor gollancz vgsf imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art cover price £2.95 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Nov 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Up The Line	random house group ballantine books mmpb second printing, with new cover art by phil kirkland (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.25 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Barry N. Malzberg - In The Enclosure	robert hale first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price £2.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Barry N. Malzberg - In The Pocket And Other S-F Stories	charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of fifteen short stories, nf introduction by the author cover art by karel thole (unsigned, credited) cover price 75¢ ½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, advertising pp in-between the double's halves doubled with his ''gather in the hall of the planets'' (1971), q.v.
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Barry N. Malzberg - Gather In The Hall Of The Planets	charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph, credited) cover price 75¢ ½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising in-between the double's halves doubled with his ''in the pocket and other s-f stories'' (1972), q.v.
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Lawrence Block - The Burglar On The Prowl	bernie rhodenbarr series #10
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Lawrence Block - The Burglar On The Prowl	no exit press p/b first printing dedication: here's a book for maggie griffin . . . great reader, great fiend, web maven, consigliere, and good right hand cover art none really; typography plus some design work in b+w on a plum field cover price £6.99 320pp. including ten pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Nov 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Future City	contents: preface (nf) roger elwood introduction (nf) clifford d. simak in praise of new york (poem) thomas m. disch as by tom disch the sightseers (short story) ben bova meanwhile, we eliminate (ss) andrew j. offut thine alabaster cities gleam (ss) laurence m. janifer culture lock (ss) barry n. malzberg the world as will and wallpaper (ss) r. a. lafferty violation (ss) william f. nolan city nights, city lights (ss) barry n. malzberg as k. m. o'donnell the undercity (ss) dean r. koontz apartment hunting (ss) audrey bilker, harvey bilker as a drop (poem) d. m. price abendländes (poem) virginia kidd the weariest river (novelette) thomas n. scortia death of a city (ss) frank herbert assassins of air (ss) george zebrowski getting across (ntte) robert silverberg in dark places (ss) joe l. hensley revolution (ss) barry n. malzberg as robin schaeffer chicago (ss) thomas f. monteleone the most primitive (ss) ray russell hindsight: 480 seconds (ss) harlan ellison 5,000,000 AD (ss) miriam allen deford afterword (nf) frederik pohl
ppint. 24th Nov 2023		Book Groff Conklin - Elsewhere And Elsewhen	twin themed reprint anthology of eight novelettes and a short story; contents and their sources listed in the bookcat entries for the two derivative anthologies, qq.v.
ppint. 23rd Nov 2023		Book James Blish - The Night Shapes	london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''hardware: the definitive sf works of chris foss'' (2011), q.v) cover price 80p, $2.50 australia 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Nov 2023		Book James Blish - New Dreams This Morning	contents: preface (nf) james blish dreaming is a private thing (short story) isaac asimov, expanded from shorter version in the saturday review of literature, 28/5/1955; expansion first published in f&sf vol.9 #6, 12/1955 a work of art (ss) james blish science fiction stories vol.7 #1, 7/1956 the dark night of the soul (ss) james blish, as ''genius heap'' galaxy vol.12 #4, 8/1956 portrait of the artist (ss) harry harrison f&sf vol.27 #5, 11/1964 the country of the kind (ss) damon knight, f&sf vol.10 #2, 2/1956 with these hands (novelette) c. m. kornbluth galaxy vol.3 #3, 12/1951 a master of babylon (ntte) edgar pangborn , as ''the music master of babylon'' galaxy vol.9 #2, 11/1954; galaxy strato bre #25, 4/1955 (set in the same world as that of ''davy'' but unconnected with the novel) a man of talent (ss) robert silverberg , as ''the man with talent'' future science fiction #31, winter/1956; science fantasy #24, 8/1957
ppint. 23rd Nov 2023		Book James Blish - New Dreams This Morning	ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by richard powers (signed, signature may be guillotined off cover in production, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Nov 2023		Book James Blish - The Best Of James Blish	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited) cover price $2.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents 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, bothe state first edition: august 1979
ppint. 23rd Nov 2023		Book James Blish - The Quincunx Of Time	dell mmpb first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; attributably by paul lehr from the style, my judgment; full painting is likely signed cover price 95¢ cat# 7244 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia, critical preface: to be skipped by friends of fiction (nf) blish, etc.

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