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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
ppint. 1st Feb 2025		Book Jack Vance - Tales Of The Dying Earth	the orion publishing group gollancz imprint b-format p/b omnibus edition first printing°, first thus gollancz fantasy masterworks series #4 omnibus of the four dying earth books written by jack vance cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £8.99 752pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, five end pp: one blank, 4pp. advertising ° - stated in the indicia to be the second impression of the milennium imprint omnibus p/b book, which is stated to've been published by victor gollancz under their milennium imprint...
ppint. 1st Feb 2025		Book Jack Vance - Tales Of The Dying Earth	the orion publishing group millennium imprint b-format p/b omnibus edition first printing, first thus millennium fantasy masterworks series #4 omnibus of the four dying earth books written by jack vance cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover; re-used from the granada panther books "the dying earth" p/b (1985), q.v.) cover price £7.99 (reported: obscured by biro on this copy) 752pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, five end pp: one blank, 4pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Jan 2025		Book C. J. Cherryh - Das Kuckucksei	english title appears^Hed to've been incorrectly keyed-in, and should^W has been corrected to "cuckoo's egg" (no space between the second "o" and the apostrophe ('), and no space between the apostrophe and the "s") this translation should then^W^W now automagically correctly sorts together with the english language editions.
ppint. 30th Jan 2025		Book Alice Mary Norton - Exiles Of The Stars	charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited (looks to be in frank kelly freas' style, but this is not an attribution) cover price 95¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish between this first, and the near-identical undated 2/1975° second ace mmpb printing: cat# 22366 cover price $1.25 which should state it's a charter communications ace book published by grosset & dunlap ° - date taken from the indicia of the 6/1979 grosset & dunlap charter communications ace mmpb third printing, which bears completely different cover art (by john rush)
ppint. 30th Jan 2025		Book Eleanor Dobson - Silver Bullets	the british library british library imprint p/b first printing, first edition 96 euston road london nw1 2db dedication: for imogen and joshua blake, in honour of "the bloodening" reprint anthology of fourteen stories first published from 1831 through 1925, introduction by the editor cover art unsigned, credited to bareback design on back cover cover price £8.99 272pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 3 blank end pp.
ppint. 29th Jan 2025		Book Eric Frank Russell - Next Of Kin	expanded rewrite of "the space willies" (1958) q.v., which in turn was an expansion of "plus x" (novella) astounding vol. lvii #4, 6/1956; astounding atlas bre vol. xii #11, 11/1956 the cover story, art by, and both with five b+w illustrations by, (frank) kelly freas.
ppint. 29th Jan 2025		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Orphans Of The Sky	mayflower books mayflower [ship] dell logo p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition, possibly first p/b edition merkin dell books' set-up and owned mayflower books ltd. they randomly logoed/badged their p/b editions' front covers with just "mayflower" above the outline front view of a sailing ship, or with "mayflower" above it and "dell" below, for a while; the paperbacks were, however, all published as mayflower books. none of the uk mayflower books were published as "mayflower-dell" books (i.e. none of them was published under a hyphenated imprint, "mayflower-dell"), though a very small number bear "mayflower-dell" on the front cover. cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2'6 112pp. (check) including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Jan 2025		Book Mark Keating - The Pirate Devlin	hodder & stoughton ltd. first h/cvr printing, first edition 338 euston road london nw13bh an hachette uk company dedication: for john roberts and james montgomerie, who always wanted to read on. cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price £12.99 352pp. including eight unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, blank end p, perfectbound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards check indicia publishing history for elsewise unexplained printing number below "an hachette company"
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Poul Anderson - Satan's World	transworld publishers corgi books p/b third printing cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited, retained from their two previous printings) front cover typography re-set and centered left-right from first two printings cover price of £1.25, °$4.75 australia, $4.85 new zealand ° recommended 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Robert Crouch - Royal Bargemasters	the history press large format p/b first printing, first edition dedication: the authors wish to dedicate this book to her majesty queen elizabeth II in recognition of her rejuvenation and enrichment of the role of her bargemasters and watermen during her long reign ..." (cut: three further paragraphs) cover art unsigned photographic, by courtesy of john adams (credited) cover price £14.99 176pp. including 14pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, dedication, foreword, preface etc, 12 end pp: timeline of notable events, glossary, research sources, notes, about the authors° ° - beryl pendley ll.b. and robert g. crouch mvo, to include their qualifications' abbreviations
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Peter Saxon - Scream And Scream Again	"peter saxon" is/was a house name of a kind. this novel written by w. howard baker and/or stephen frances, q.v. aka and originally "the disorientated man" (1966), q.v.
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Lin Carter - Giant Of World's End	gondwane series #6: #1: "the warrior of worlds end" (1974), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Norman Spinrad - The New Tomorrows	contents: introduction (nf) norman spinrad the pleasure garden of felipe sagittarius (short story) michael moorcock new worlds #154, 9/1965 driftglass (ss) samuel r. delany if vol.17 #6, 6/1967, one b+w illustration by jack gaughan sending the very best (ss) ed bryant ''clarion'' ed. robin scott wilson (1970) going down smooth (ss) robert silverberg galaxy vol.27 #1, 8/1968 (this story was commissioned by frederik pohl to suit the cover art by vaughn bodé, two b+w illustrations by brock) the garden of delights (novelette) langdon jones new worlds #192, 7/1969 surface if you can (ss) terry champagne new worlds #192, 7/1969 masks (ss) damon knight playboy 7/1968 pennies, off a dead man's eyes (ss) harlan ellison galaxy vol.29 (states 129) #3, 11/1969; galaxy bre vol.29 #3, 12/1969 198-, a tale of ''tomorrow'' (ss) john sladek new worlds #197, 1/1970 flight useless, inexorable the pursuit (ss) thomas m. disch ''under compulsion'' thomas m. disch (1968) the last hurrah of the golden horde (ss) norman spinrad new worlds #192, 7/1969 (cover story, art by malcolm ''mal'' dean; a jerry cornelius story; michael moorcock's character°) down the up escalation (ss) brian w..aldiss the london magazine 2/1967 circularization of condensed conventional straight-line word-image structures (ss) michael butterworth new worlds #192, 7/1969 (with first word spelled ''circularisation'') the definition (ss) bob marsden new worlds #182, 7/1968 the jungle rot kid on the nod (ss) philip josé farmer new worlds #200, 4/1970 ° - michael moorcock's jerry cornelius character was made available to contributing authors to new worlds magazine to make what use of they wished - apparently not upon the condition that he was kept in character in their fiction featuring him, so much as that he was kept in style. . .
ppint. 28th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Space Tug	belmont productions belmont books mmpb stated second printing in the indicia cover art by jack gaughan (signed with his "jg" digraph, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - The Trap	land of the giants series #1: #1: ''land of the giants'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - The Hot Spot	land of the giants series #2: #1: ''land of the giants'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - The Hot Spot	land of the giants series #2: #1: ''land of the giants'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Unknown Danger	land of the giants series #3: #1: ''land of the giants'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - The Pirates Of Zan	novel also collected in "a logic named joe " murray leinster (2005), q.v.
ppint. 27th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - The Duplicators	novel also collected in "a logic named joe " murray leinster (2005), q.v.
ppint. 26th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - A Logic Named Joe	contents: a logic named joe (short story) astounding vol.37 #1, 3/1946 astounding atlas bre vol. vi #5, 8/1948; in both: as by will f. jenkins dear charles (ss) fantastic story vol.5 #3, 5/1953, as by william fitzgerald gateway to elsewhere (novel) 1954, q.v. the duplicators (novel) 1964, q.v. the fourth-dimensional demonstator (ss) astounding vol 16 #4, 12/1935 the pirates of zan (novel) 1959, q.v.
ppint. 26th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - A Logic Named Joe	baen publishing enterprises baen books p/b first printing, first edition reprint collection of three short stories and three novels with introduction by barry n. malzberg edited by eric flint & guy gordon (credited on title page); only flint is credited on the front cover cover art by kurt miller (unsigned, credited) cover price $7.99 \| $11.99 canada 608pp. (check) including unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, "the dean of gloucester, virginia" nf introduction by barry n. malzberg, end pp.
ppint. 26th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Gateway To Elsewhere	novel also collected in "a logic named joe " murray leinster (2005), q.v.
ppint. 26th Jan 2025		Book Murray Leinster - Gateway To Elsewhere	partially serialised in fantasy book vol.2 #1, 1950 & vol.2 #2, 1951 as "journey to barkut": the magazine ceased publishing without completing its serialisation; "serialized" in startling stories vol.24 #3, 1/1952 as "journey to barkut" (complete novel) with three b+w illustrations by virgil finlay, cover art unsigned, believed to be by earle bergey
ppint. 26th Jan 2025		Book H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man	the orion publishing group gollancz imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition masterworks (unnumbered) series an hachette uk company cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £8.99, $13.99 us(a), $15.99 can(ada) 160pp. including (i-) x pp. titles, indicia, 4pp. introduction by adam roberts, etc, 6 end pp: ½p. about the author, 3pp. advertising, 2 interspersed blank pp.

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