ppint. ● 20th Sep 2023 | | BookC. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning | world distributors (manchester) ltd. wdl books p/b first printing, first uk edition
author mistakenly mis-credited as ''c. e. moore''
cover art unsigned, uncredited; prob'ly by edgar hodges on stylistic grounds
cover price 2'6
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 20th Sep 2023 | | BookC. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning | the hearst corporation avon books simultaneous mmpb third printings over-all (the simultaneous first printings being retrospectively accounted the first and second printings), sharing merkin-printed covers with new
cover art by douglas rosa (unsigned, credited; back cover art is l-r reflexion of front cover art)
cover price 60¢
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 priority established nor liable to be, both state third printing, november, 1968
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ppint. ● 20th Sep 2023 | | BookHenry Kuttner - Chessboard Planet | contents:
introduction (nf) and
on fairy chess (nf) by the editor
chessboard planet (novella) astounding vol. xxxvi #5, #6; 1/1946, 2/1946, as ''the fairy chessmen'', as by lewis padgett
- part one is the cover story, art by timmins;
- part one has five, part two has seven b+w illustrations by paul orban
camouflage (novelette) astounding vol. xxxvi #1, 9/1945; four b+w illustrations by paul orban
android (ntte) f&sf vol.2 #3, 6/1951, as by c. h. liddell
or else (short story) amazing vol. 27 #6, 8-9/1953
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookHenry Kuttner - The Best Of Henry Kuttner | random house group ballantine books simultaneous first mmpb printings, first edition
(the book club edition that may slightly precede the distribution of the mmpb was not for public sale, being only for sale to members of the book club)
cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, uncredited; source ?)
cover price $1.95
420pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, nf introduction, 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 first printing: april, 1975
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookHenry Kuttner - The Murder Of Ann Avery | lionel miller & son banner books p/b first uk p/b, prob'ly (almost certainly) first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 2/-
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookDesmond Young - Rommel | collins fontana books imprint first printing, first p/b edition
with foreword by field-marshal sir claude auchinleck (aka ''the auk'')
cover art unsigned uncredited
cover price 2'6
320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), foreword etc, 4 end pp. advertising (2pp. listing the first fifty fontana books p/bs, 2pp. advertising four of these, two with thumbnail precises, two with press reviews
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookGillian Tindall - Célestine | at least seven undated vintage b-format p/b reprintings distinguishable by reference to the indicia printing letter line progressively dropping letters in alphabetical order.
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookGillian Tindall - Célestine | random house (uk) vintage books b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
(first uk p/b edition was published under the minerva books imprint)
cover art unsigned
cover price £9.99, can $21.95 (canada)
304pp. including (i)-(x) pp. titles, indicia etc, 19 end pp: 6pp. afterword, 4pp. bibliography, 8pp. index, 1 blank p.
isbn is from the previously hamlyn publishing group/octopus publishing group/reed international group/reed-elséviér group methuen mandarin / mandarin books block of numbers
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookGillian Tindall - Célestine | sinclair-stevenson h/cvr first printing, first edition
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookLewis Padgett - Well Of The Worlds | the anc under the cat# block on the front cover indicates the primary news distributor (= primary newspapers, magazines & mmpb wholesalers) was american news corporation, merkia's only coast-to-coast news distributor (until taken over, asset-stripped and more-or-less dismembered).
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookLewis Padgett - The Far Reality | serialised as ''the fairy chessmen'' in astounding vol. xxxvi #5, #6; 1/1946, 2/1946;
part one is the cover story, art by timmins;
parts one & two have respectively five and seven b+w illustrations by (paul) orban
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookLewis Padgett - Tomorrow And Tomorrow | serialised in astounding vol. xxxviii #5, #6; 1/1947, 2/1947;
part one is the cover story, art by timmins;
parts one & two have respectively three and five b+w illustrations by (paul) orban
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookLewis Padgett - Tomorrow And Tomorrow | world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books p/b first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 2'6
112pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookHenry Kuttner - Man Drowning | four square books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by josh kirby (signed kirby, uncredited)
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookHenry Kuttner - Destination Infinity | ''(fury)'' is not the subtitle, and should^W has been deleted from this field°
the original title was ''fury'' -
and this should^W has been entered in the english title field, after which bookcat will automagically sort together all editions of this title by this author correctly.
° - if a merkin publisher changed the title of a book upon producing their/a new edition, which practise became an epidemic of its kind amongst - mostly small mmpb publishers frequently specialising in what was then referred to as ''sleaze'' (virtually a publishing category in its own right) - the legible noting of the original title upon the front cover (and possibly elsewhere) was mandated by the FTC - the merkin fair (?federal?) trade commission.
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ppint. ● 19th Sep 2023 | | BookTerry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! [The Graphic Novel] | simultaneous first edition 2000 a.d. / c.e.
not previously published in any year
together with the simultaneous h/cvr, this is the primary edition of the graphic novel,
and it should be bookcatted separately from the novel, just as the playscripts are.
yr hmbl srppnt. suggests ''guards! guards! - a discworld graphic novel''.
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ppint. ● 18th Sep 2023 | | BookGilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories No 2 | title is^W was wrong and should^W has been emended to ''fat freddy's comics & stories no.2''
as per the cover image
elsewise bookcat sorts the different issues together incorrectly as though they were identical -
- which they are not; they have different contents, as well as different titles.
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ppint. ● 18th Sep 2023 | | BookGilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories No 1 | the title of this is^W was wrong and should^W has been emended to ''fat freddy's comics & stories no.1''
as per the cover image
elsewise bookcat sorts the different issues together incorrectly, as though they were identical -
- which they are not; they are different, with different contents.
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ppint. ● 18th Sep 2023 | | BookGene Wolfe - The Devil In A Forest | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by r. krepel (signed°, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° -:i don't believe anyone deciphered this - but there's a pyramid books mmpb with art signed similarly, where it's credited to r. krepel; ''re-enter fu manchu'' sax rohmer, pyramid V3944 (1976)...
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookTim Powers - The Anubis Gates | chatto & windus chatto yp/b simultaneous first printing, first uk
simultaneous with the chatto & windus • the hogarth press h/cvr bind-up of the same signatures
cover art by don macpherson
cover price £3.95
388pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
publication month not given in indicia publishing history, taken from locus
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookTim Powers - The Anubis Gates | chatto & windus • the hogarth press simultaneous h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition
simultaneous with the chatto & windus yp/b card bind-up of the same signatures
cover (d-j) art by don macpherson
cover (d-j) price £9.95
388pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; taken from locus
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookJohn Brunner - Interstellar Empire | hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, second uk p/b printing over-all
venture science fiction series# V04
cover art by eddie jones retained in re-designed cover
cover price £2.50
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookJohn Brunner - Interstellar Empire | hutchinson publishing group hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition
venture science fiction series# V04
cover art by eddie jones (re-used from publication in vortex vol.1 #5, 5/1977)
cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookJohn Brunner - Interstellar Empire | daw books mmpb seventh printing
cover art by vicente segrelles (retained from previous four daw mmpb printings, credited)
cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $2.95
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
date of printing/publication taken from locus
yr hmbl srppnt. does not know of a later daw books printing
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookJohn Norman - Tarnsman Of Gor | sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk and first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited) (d-j design by format credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 21/-
© 1966 by john lange
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between dark red cloth-covered boards with sf, two lines, title, author, two lines & logo, sidgwick & jackson blocked in gold on spine
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookJohn Norman - Tarnsman Of Gor | actually bears the appropriate nine-digit standard book number, in the system that became part of the international standard book number system by the creation of the english language identifer, 0, and its notional prepension to all issued and still-current numbers already issued - or actual prepension in the event of the editions - or their dust-jackets - being reprinted thereafter; entered as the probably non-extant isbn because someone's deleting the correct and compatible sbns, thus reducing the information in, and the usefulness of, bookcat.
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookSherwood King - If I Die Before I Wake | doubled with ''decoy'' michael morgan (1953), q.v.
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookSherwood King - If I Die Before I Wake | ace books mmpb first printing, prob'ly first mmpb edition
half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by harry barton (attribution from the ace image library)
cover price 35¢
½ ?320pp? including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. advertising in-between the double's halves
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookMichael Morgan - Decoy | doubled with ''if i die before i wake'' sherwood king (1938), q.v.
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ppint. ● 17th Sep 2023 | | BookMichael Morgan - Decoy | 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 unsigned, uncredited
cover price 35¢
½ ?320pp? including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
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