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ppint. ● 9th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Long Twilight	the berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb undated° second printing, with new cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.50 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - publication date of this printing not given in the indicia; taken from locus 196, 30/11/1976
ppint. ● 9th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Long Twilight	robert hale h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited photographic cover (d-j) price £3.00 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. ● 9th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy	contents: the body builders (galaxy vol.24 #6, 8/1966; galaxy gold star publications bre vol 24 #6, 3-4(/1967)) the planet wreckers (worlds of tomorrow vol.4 #3, 2/1967) - the cover story, art and two b+w illustrations by gray morrow the star-sent knaves (worlds of tomorrow vol.1 #2, 6/1963) the war against the yukks (galaxy vol.23 #4, 4/1965 without the first "the") goobereality (1968) (apparently original to this collection)
ppint. ● 9th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition mostly reprint collection of five novelettes cover (d-j) art by richard weaver cover (d-j) price 18/- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Retief Of The Cdt	Review not entirely serious. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Retief Of The Cdt	contents: five novelettes featuring james retief of the corps diplomatique terrestrienne: ballots and bandits (if vol 20 #7, 9-10/1970) mechanical advantage (if vol.19 #4, 4/1969 as "retief, the long-awaited master") pime doesn't cray (if vol.20 #9, 1-2/1971) internal affairs (if vol.20 #10, 3-4/1971, as "retief, insider") the piecemaker (if vol 20 #5, 5-6/1970; if bre vol.20 #5, 6-7/1970)
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Retief Of The Cdt	baen enterprises baen books first printing, not first mmpb edition reprint collection of five retief novelettes dedication: for joe and gay (joe & gay haldeman) cover art by wayne barlowe (signed ©84 wbarlowe, credited) cover price $2.95 224pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 4 end pp. advertising
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The World Shuffler	hodder & stoughton coronet books first printing, first uk p/b edition (first uk edition was the sidgwick & jackson h/cvr (1973) dedication: for leslie with love cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 75p, $2.45 australia, $2.40 new zealand 160pp. including 6p. titles, indicia etc, 1 end p. advertising
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The World Shuffler	lafayette o'leary #2: #1: "the time bender" (1966), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Time Bender	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by rowena morrill (signed rowena, uncredited) cover price $2.25 256pp. (check) including unnumbered pp.titles, indicia° etc, end pp. advertising ° - publishing history omits mention of the berkley medallion mmpb first edition distinguish from near-identical undated second printings which differ: "1" has been dropped from the indicia printing history number line; the two variants note whether the carcass or book was printed in canada; covers likely only in usa n.b. ace books five-digit cat# (& therefore also the isbn) not increased by one, as these should've been, to reflect the reprinting and from the 3/1984 berkley publishing group near-identical ace mmpb fifth(!)° printing, which differs: cat# 81014, isbn 0-441-80144-4 indicia publishing history states fifth printing / march 1984 ° - whether this is a mis-counting, or a retrospective notional renumbering of the canadian third printing to've been deemed the fourth printing, *or* there remains an intervening, printing, declared in its indicia publishing history or no, perhaps cat#ed 80143 & isbned 0-441-81043-6. . . yr hmbl srppnt. knoweth not.
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Time Bender	lafayette o'leary series #1: see bookcat primary edition for series listing, and links.
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Time Bender	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition and first uk edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver cover (d-j) price £2.75 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Time Bender	publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion", as per the cover image, as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the ultimate owning publishers/publishing groups/megacorpses
ppint. ● 8th Feb 2025		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Seven From The Stars	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace mmpb second printing over-all, first stand-alone edition text evidently re-set from the increase in the extent of this mmpb cover art by steve (stephen) hickman (signed with his block-stylised initials, credited) cover price $1.95 160pp. including unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical undated third printing, which differs: indicia printing history number line drops the digit "2", leaving "3" the lowest number; end pp. advertising may also differ (ace books' five-digit cat# should've been increased by one, to 75941, and therefore isbn to 0-441-75941-6; but by now (then), few if any people left at g&d (? from charter communications, even?) remembered how the five-digit cat# system was meant to work...)
ppint. ● 7th Feb 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Space Platform	some very high hundreds to low thousands of copies of this mmpb were imported and distributed in the uk by thorpe & porter bearing a white 3/6 upon blue price label (no other text nor even the tepee logo).
ppint. ● 7th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Imperium	omnibus of brion bayard/worlds of the imperium series #1, #2 & #3: #1: "worlds of the imperium" (1962), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. ● 7th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Zone Yellow	brion bayard/worlds of the imperium series #4: #1: "worlds of the imperium" (1962), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. ● 7th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Zone Yellow	baen publishing enterprises baen books p/b first printing, first edition (the book bears no dedication) cover art by tom kidd (unsigned, credited) (titles, characters & basket of fruit embossed) cover price (can $5.95) u.s. $4.50 256pp. including four unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 5 end pp: 4pp. advertising, 1p. extract from "borders of infinity" lois mcmaster bujold (1989), q.v., and specifically from "labyrinth" (novella) analog vol. cix #8, 8/1989 front cover bears the puff line, "starring brion bayard"; this is not the, or even a, sub-title.
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Other Side Of Time	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver cover (d-j) price 18/- 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Beyond The Imperium	double or omnibus of "assignment in nowhere" (1968), q.v. and "the other side of time" (1965), q.v. brion bayard/worlds of the imperium series #3 and #2: bookcatted as an omnibus since it bears its own unique title. #1: "worlds of the imperium" (1962), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - The Other Side Of Time	brion bayard/worlds of the imperium series #2: #1: "worlds of the imperium" (1962), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Imperium	baen publishing enterprises baen books p/b first printing, first p/b edition thus omnibus of the first three "imperium series" novels originally published in 1962, 1965 & 1968 "this is where i came in" (nf introduction) harry turtledove, nf afterword by the editor cover art by david mattingly (shared with the first edition d-j art) cover price $7.99 \| $9.99 canada 480pp? (check) including unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Imperium	baen publishing enterprises baen books h/cvr first printing, first omnibus edition thus omnibus of the first three "imperium series" novels originally published in 1962, 1965 & 1968 "this is where i came in" (nf introduction) harry turtledove, nf afterword by the editor cover (d-j) art by david mattingly cover (d-j) price $25.00 \| $36.00 canada 480pp? (check) including unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Worlds Of The Imperium	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace mmpb third printing over-all cover art unsigned, uncredited (likely by davis meltzer°) cover price 95¢ 176pp. (check) including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising from the greatly increased extent, text evidently re-set in much larger type indicia publishing history gives dates for the previous ace mmpb printings (1/1962, 7/1967) ° - what was apparently a preliminary for the cover art was offered on ebay as by davis meltzer
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Worlds Of The Imperium	granada publishing mayflower books first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by josh kirby (unsigned, uncredited; in joshlist.html) cover price 4/- (20p), 50c south africa, 65c australia, 65c new zealand, 85c canada 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Worlds Of The Imperium	brion bayard/worlds of the imperium #1: #1: "worlds of the imperium" (ace 1962), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Worlds Of The Imperium	ace books mmpb second printing, first printing was as half an ace double (1962), q.v. cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained cut down from first printing; credited to ed valigursky in the ace image library cover price 45¢ 1136pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end up. advertising only the 1962 copyright date is given in the indicia; publication date taken from the ace mmpb third printing
ppint. ● 6th Feb 2025		Book Keith Laumer - Worlds Of The Imperium	brion bayard/worlds of the imperium #1: #1: "worlds of the imperium" (1962) (this novel) #2: "the other side of time" (1965), q.v. #3: "assignment in nowhere" (1968), q.v. #4: "zone yellow" (1990), q.v. omnibus of #3 & #2: #O1: "beyond the imperium" (1981), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3 #O2: "imperium" edited by eric flint (2005), q.v. texts liable to have been both modernized and updated by eric flint - should this matter, check before purchasing!
ppint. ● 5th Feb 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Checkpoint Lambda	serialised as "stopover in space" in amazing stories vol.40 #6, #7; 6, 8/1966 the two parts have respectively one and two b+w illustrations by gray morrow
ppint. ● 5th Feb 2025		Book Jack Vance - Tales Of The Dying Earth	contents: the four dying earth books by jack vance: #1: "the dying earth" (1950), q.v. #2: "the eyes of the overworked" (1966), q.v. #4: "cugel's saga" (1983), q.v. #5: "rhialto the marvellous" (1984), q.v. an individual contents page is provided only for #4 #3: "a quest for simbilis" michael shea (1974), q.v. is not contained in the omnibus

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