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ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book Mack Reynolds - The Cosmic Eye	belmont publications belmont imprint mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (unsigned, uncredited; art on artwanted.com website shows his signature) cover price 60¢ 160pp. 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 state a belmont book---september 1969
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book John Swenson - The John Lennon Story	@jpgr&b what leisure books have done is appended the cover price in cents to the isbn (isbn10 by default) - a common trick by some (many) merkin mmpb publishers for quite a while. they - nordon industries/publications, leisure books - also went through a period of inventing fake isbns by taking their legitimate publisher code, 0-8439-, adding the previous three-digit numerical part of the cat#, and then interpolating however many zeroes it took to expand the result up to ten digits, the final digit being the final digit of the previous cat# instead of a checksum digit (before appending the cover price in cents, giving a thirteen digit-long number-string). . . these are almost invariably detectable if you bother to recalculate what the checksum digit *should* have been, comparing this with what they claim: they can only match through sheer chance/chancer's luck. in this particular case, the isbn appears to be legitimate - they did get over the faking period - and the cat# on the cover is 1000 - top fly (right-hand) corner, under the lllogo & ''leisure''.
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book Alan Garner - The Moon Of Gomrath	penguin books ltd. penguin book (title page, under penguin logo) in association with collins published by penguin books (back cover) a puffin book (front cover followed by puffin emblem, on orangey-red band across bottom front cover) drops cat# third printing 1969 introductory quotation: 'and for to passe the tyme thys book shal be plesaunte to rede in, but for to gyve fayth and byleve that al is trewe that is conteyned herein, ye be at your lyberté.' william caxton 31 july 1485 cover art by george adamson (retained from previous puffin/penguin p/bs and first edition h/cvr d-j) cover price 25p, R0.50 south africa, $0.65 australia, $0.65 new zealand, $0.85 canada 176pp. including 12pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), introductory quotation, 4pp. two b+w maps, about the author (nf note); 8 end pp: 3pp. notes including bibliography, 1p. blank, 4pp. advertising
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book James Blish - Galactic Cluster	contents: common time (short story) science fiction quarterly vol.2 #4, 8/1953 a work of art (ss) (original) as ''art-work'' science fiction stories vol.7 #1, 7/1956 to pay the piper (ss) if vol.6 #2, 2/1956 nor iron bars (novelette) infinity vol.3 #1, 7/1957, incorporates ''detour to the stars'' (ss) infinity vol.1 #6, 12/1956, with a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller beep (ntte) galaxy vol.7 #5-A, 2/1954; strato bre #16; both with four b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller beanstalk (novella) in ''future tense'' ed. kendell foster crossen (1952), q.v.,(original) science fiction stories vol.6 #4, 1/1956, as ''giants in the earth'', with a b+w illustration by (frank) kelly freas
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book James Blish - Galactic Cluster	faber & faber first printing, first uk and first h/cvr edition contents differ from the merkin mmpb edition, and those of uk sfbc and p/b editions differ further reprint collection of three short stories, two novelettes and a novella cover (d-j) art by john griffiths cover (d-j) price 15s. 236pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book Sax Rohmer - The Moon Is Red	brown, watson digit books p/b, prob'ly first printing, prob'ly first p/b edition cover art (possibly signed, or squiggle is part of the art), uncredited) cover price 2'6
ppint. 5th Oct 2023		Book Sax Rohmer - The Mystery Of Dr. Fu-Manchu	transworld publishers corgi books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3s. 6d. 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book John Swenson - The John Lennon Story	isbn13 is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted: the isbn13 had not been invented/defined by c. three decades.
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book John Swenson - The John Lennon Story	n.b. ''1st january'' day and month of publication year if taken from amazon is *not* reliable without support from publisher's promotional material, laid-in review copy slip, dated reviews from newspapers & magazines around the date of a book's first publication, and similar; amazon inputs these merely to fill the day & month fields with something. . .
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Lin Carter - Beyond The Gates Of Dream	isbn checksum digit recalculated (advisable for nordon publications for a period) and is correct.
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Steve Vance - Planet Of The Gawfs	isbn checksum digit recalculated (advisable for nordon publications for a period), and is correct.
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Lin Carter - Beyond The Gates Of Dream	nordon industries leisure books mmpb undated° second printing with new cat#, isbn incorporating this, inflation fighter series†, science fiction #2 † - = poorly-printed text, and with no cover art cover art typographical, black and spot green (and one yellow star price flash) on the white card cover price $1.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising° ° - bears only © mcmlxix copyright date; publication date entered taken from locus #257, 6/1982
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Lin Carter - Beyond The Gates Of Dream	nordon industries leisure books mmpb undated° first printing, using the typesetting of the previous mmpbs by belmont and belmont tower, suitably emended cover art (signed somewhat blurrily†, and as-yet undeciphered, sfaik, uncredited) cover price $1.50 160pp. including titles, indicia (ha!) etc, end pp. advertising ° - year of publication entered obtained by interpolation of cat# between cat#s of known publication date, and checked by comparison of cover prices of leisure books of this extent † - maybe indicates that the cover art was re-used from a previous belmont or belmont tower mmpb or was bought in from another publisher - quite possibly from a uk publisher
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Lin Carter - Beyond The Gates Of Dream	contents: a sort of introduction, called here, and back again (nf) lin carter masters of the metropolis (short story) lin carter, randall garrett (inside (fanzine, ron smith) 1/1956); (f&sf vol.12 #4, 4/1957) owlstone (ss) lin carter (1969°) keru (ss) lin carter (1969°) the hand of nergal (novelette) robert e. howard, lin carter (in ''conan'' robert e. howard (1967), q.v.) harvey hodges, veebelfetzer (ntte) lin carter (1969°) uncollected works (ss) lin carter (f&sf vol.28 #3, 3/1965) the mantichore: from a work in progress (ss) lin carter (1969°) (apparently chh. 4-7 - but of what?) a few last words (nf afterword) lin carter ° - these seem to be original to this collection
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Lin Carter - Beyond The Gates Of Dream	belmont tower mmpb simultaneous first printings, using belmont books typesetting, second mmpb over-all cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 95¢ 160pp. 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 state a belmont/tower book---november 1972
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Marc Olden - Poe Must Die	charter communications, inc. charter books imprint mmpb undated first printing, first merkin edition° cover art unsigned cover price $2.25 472pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - gives only the 1978 copyright date, and i've not been able to find a reliable source for the actual year of publication, let alone the month.
ppint. 4th Oct 2023		Book Marc Olden - Poe Must Die	hamlyn publishing group hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition° cover art cover price £1.00 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - i don't think this was the novel's first publication, but i've not been able to find a reliable date for the charter communications, inc. charter mmpb first printing (it only gives the 1978 copyright date), and hamlyn paperbacks' editorial director, peter lavery was an excellent commercial fiction editor specialising in horror; so it could be...
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint simultaneous mmpb first printings probably sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art by richard powers (signed powers laz/org, uncredited) cover price $1.25 256pp. 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 state berkley medallion edition, april, 1974 refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical undated second printing, which states its ordinality
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle	date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1976: the third printing was in 1975, the fourth in 1976, the fifth in 1977; all share the third printing's cat# D(/0)3080, cover price $1.50, 256pp. including titles, indicia, end pp.; the third printing possibly does not have the (9-digit) sbn in the indicia - but prob'ly does; the D cat# prefix indicating the cover price is dropped with/after the fourth, the full isbn appearing on the cover incorporating the numerical part of the previous cat#, in its place the sixth printing in 1978 has a new cat#, (0)3908, isbn 0-425-03908--0, cover price $1.75
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Three Early Novels	orion publishing group millennium books victor gollancz imprint b-format p/b first printing, first thus omnibus of ''the man who japed'' (1956), ''dr. futurity'' (1960), ''vulcan's hammer'' (1960), q.v. cover art unsigned, uncredited; seen suggested almost certainly by chris moore (no reason given) cover price £7.99, $12.95 canada 436pp. (? 424pp? check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given; taken from locus the 2006 near-identical second printing differs: hachette livre uk orion publishing group gollancz imprint b-format p/b isbn 978-1-85798-912-0 cover price £7.99, $12.99 canada
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Vulcan's Hammer	collected in the omnibus, ''three early novels'' philip k. dick (2000 & ff.), q.v.
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Vulcan's Hammer	expansion (?by how much?) of ''vulcan's hammer'' (novella) future science fiction #29, 4/1956 the cover story, art and one b+w interior illustration by frank kelly freas this first version was published in the reprint collection, ''6 - and the silent scream'' ed. ivan howard (1963), q.v.
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Vulcan's Hammer	hutchinson group arrow books first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter elson (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from its inclusion in ''flights of Icarus'' martyn dean, roger dean (1977), q.v.) cover price 50p, 55c malta, $1.50 australia, $1.35 new zealand, $1.95 canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising near-identical 1981 arrow books p/b second printing on same isbn, which differs: cover price £1.25 (no other territories' prices) indicia publishing history adds line: reprinted 1981
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Vulcan's Hammer	(charter communications, inc? check) ace books mmpb undated° second printing, first solo printing cover art (unsigned, uncredited; attributed to (frank) kelly freas in ace image library, which shows a full-colour preliminary that is signed kelly freas) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - save for 1960 copyright date; entered date from stuart wells
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	penguin group roc imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition, re-uses penguin's earlier typesetting cover art by chris moore cover price £4.99 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given; taken from locus
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	penguin books b-format p/b edition first printing, not first penguin p/b edition cover art by tom stimpson (unsigned, credited on back cover, re-used from previous a-format printing) cover price £3.95, $12.95 australia, $14.99 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	penguin books p/b third printing, retaining isbn from previous printing, with new cover art by tom stimpson (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	dell publishing dell mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by bob fowke (unsigned, uncredited; attribution by/confirmed by his wife, is on his website) cover price $2.25 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising may also exist in a canadian-carcassed variant; refer to indicia publishing history to check if you are holding such a copy. please post here on bookcat if you do, giving the firm of words used to state this.
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	belmont tower mmpb first printing, second printing of belmont mmpb typesetting, with new cat#, new cover art by doug beekman (signed beekman, uncredited) cover price $1.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising undated aside of 1959 copyright date; publication date taken from locus #203, 8/1977
ppint. 3rd Oct 2023		Book Philip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint	penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 25p 5/-, R0.60 south africa, 85c australia, 75c new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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