ppint. 14th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Between The Strokes Of Night | headline books first p/b printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned
cover price £2.95 (any overseas territories prices?)
348pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - The Web Between The Worlds | london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (unsigned, uncredited; for sale in gallery three on his website)
cover price £1.60
280pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterword by arthur c. clarke
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ppint. 14th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Divergence | victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by peter elson
cover price £3.99
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Summertide | victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
~simultaneous with the merkin mmpb first printing
cover art by peter elson (signed, half obscured by the title, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.99
260pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - The Nimrod Hunt | baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by john melo (signed melo, and so credited)
cover price $3.50°
416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including excerpt from ''between the strokes of night'' charles sheffield (stated coming in july 1985...)
° - some copies have the cover price overprinted with a grey, plasticy-looking ink rectangle, and above this, in the same ink, a fresh price of $4.95; these were intended for distribution north of the parallel
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookMack Reynolds - Space Visitor | a considerable expansion of ''visitor'' (novelette) in ''tomorrow today'' ed. george zebrowski (1975), q.v.
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookMack Reynolds - Space Visitor | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by paul alexander (signed, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
160pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
distinguish from undated° near-identical second mmpb printing which differs:
red front cover typography changed to orange
cover price $1.75
cat# 77783
(i)sbn (0-)441-77783-X
some or all of end pp. advertising's titles may well have changed, check for latest-published date;
° - 1978-1979 by my interpolation into ace cover prices vs. mmpbs of this extent of known dates
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookH. Beam Piper - Space Viking | according to the spiffy ace books five-digit system, cat# should've been increased by 1 from the previous printing, to 77782 (with consequent (i)sbn (0-)441-77782-1);
however this cat# had already been allocated to ''space visitor'' by mack reynolds (8/1977), q.v. (and ((0-)441-)77783(-X) to the second printing of this), possibly by mistake - and definitely outwith the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system;
a quick manglement flail around evidently spotted 77779 as being unused, which was still unsystematic - the choice should've gone to a completely unused block of five (or even ten) adjacent cat#s commencing in a terminal ''0'' or a ''5'' (- or arguably, a partly-used block not reserved for another title's reprintings, commencing in a terminal ''2'', to follow on from the terminal ''1'' of 77781) - but it wasn't.
and, rather than follow this with 77778, counting down (- well, why not? -) from the anomalous 77779,
the next known printing was allocated 77784, with consequent isbn 0-441-77784-8, 9/1983;
but its cover is sufficiently different from all of the preceding three michael whelan-covered printings, by virtue of the art being reproduced reversed left-right, in mirror image, to definitely constitute a new bookcat item.
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookH. Beam Piper - Space Viking | berkley publishing group ace books mmpb presumédly the fifth printing over-all, with new cover design,
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his w/m in cartouche, uncredited: art including m/w reversed left-right from 1977 through 1980 printings; upper 40% cover now black, bears titles in blue & white)
cover price $2.75
indicia publishing history drops number line, adds new line stating
this printing / september 1983
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookH. Beam Piper - Space Viking | grosset & dunlap charter communications undated° ace books imprint mmpb first standard format mmpb printing, second ace books printing over-all (first was pocketbook format mmpb F-325 1963)
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited)
cover price $1.50
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date taken from locus having received their review copy 1/1977
distinguish from near-identical undated°° ace mmpb third printing mid-1977:
cat# 77781
(i)sbn (0-)441-7781-3
cover price $1.95
°° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date obtained as being the month of the latest-published title advertised in the end page advertisements
distinguish from near-identical 1980 ace mmpb fourth printing with restyled, larger front cover titles:
cat# 77779
isbn 0-441-77779-1
cover price $2.25
indicia publishing history gives fourth printing by printing number line, and states
this ace printing december 1980
next (and last) known ace books 1983 mmpb printing has re-designed cover, reverses cover art left-right
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ppint. 13th Jul 2023 | | BookH. Beam Piper - Space Viking | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb, fourth printing by number line
(third printing of this c. 1/1977 standard format p/b edition, after small pocketbook format first edition)
front cover typography re-designed in larger, (viking in panoramic) font, retains the two earlier printings'
cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited)
cat# 77779
indicia publishing history adds line stating
this printing december 1980
cover price $2.25
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Proteus In The Underworld | baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gary ruddell (unsigned, credited)
cover price $5.99, $7.50 can(ada)
308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus | proteus series #1:
#1: ''sight of proteus'' (1978), (this novel)
#2: ''proteus unbound'' (1989), q.v.
#3: ''proteus in the underworld'' (1995), q.v.
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookC. J. Cherryh - Hunter Of Worlds | reed/hamlyn/octopus publishing group mandarin imprint first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by danny flynn (unsigned, credited)
cover price £3.50, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookC. J. Cherryh - Hunter Of Worlds | futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by brian salmon (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''lebensgeistner gmbh'' robert sheckley (1982), where it is credited)
cover price £1.50, $4.95 australia
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Proteus Unbound | hodder & stoughton new english library imprint p/b first printing, first edition
cover art by danny flynn (unsigned) (edit: this is an attribution: it is on his website)
cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given, taken from locus
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus | hodder & stoughton new english library imprint first printing, not first uk p/b (was the arrow p/b)
cover art by danny flynn (unsigned, is on his website and prints're available)
cover price £2.99 (?any overseas territories prices? likely: $9.95 australia, but i didn't record this)
248pp. (chris) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given, taken from locus
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus | london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price £1.60 (no other prices)
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus | sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art (none: typography upon a field of graduated horizontal lines on a silver ground)
cover (d-j) price £6.50 on publisher's price gun label°
284pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
° - possibly a lower price under this - ?
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookCharles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by clyde caldwell (signed with his symbol, credited)
cover price $1.75
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Starswarm | jupiter #5, a sequel to
#1: ''higher education'' charles sheffield, jerry pournelle (1996), q.v. for series listing, and links.
(#2, #3 & #4 written by charles sheffield (1997, 1997, 1998), #6 by james p. hogan (1999), qq.v.)
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Janissaries | janissaries series #1:
series written by roland green, jerry pournelle:
(except #1 written by jerry pournelle):
#1: ''janissaries'' (1979), (this illustrated short novel)
#1a: ''janissaries (text only)'' (uk 1981), q.v.
#2: ''janissaries: clan and crown'' (1982), q.v.
#3: ''janissaries III: storms of victory'' (1987), q.v.
aka ''janissaries: storms of victory'' (uk 1989), q.v.
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ppint. 12th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Janissaries (Text Only) | bpcc or mpcc macdonald & co. publishers futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by peter andrew jones (signed paj 81 ©solar wind, uncredited)
cover price £1.65, $5.50 australia
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
distinguish from near-identical reprintings on same isbn:
1984 second printing
cover price £1.95 (?any overseas territories prices?)
1987 third printing
cover price £2.50
1989 fourth printing
cover price £3.50
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Janissaries | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, not first p/b edition
cover art by enric torres-prat (unsigned, credited as enrich)
~70 b+w interior illustrations by luis bermejo (credited as bermejo)
cover price $2.50
352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
indica publishing history includes line stating:
this printing: march 1980
distinguish from at least four near-identical reprintings:
1982 presumédly second ace books mmpb printig
isbn 0-441-38288-6
cover price $2.75
indicia publishing history states
this printing: august 1982
... ...
... ...
1984 stated fifth printing:
isbn 0-441-38289-4
cover price $2.95
indicia publishing history states:
first printing / june 1979
fifth printing / february 1984
1985 stated sixth printing
isbn 0-441-38290-8
cover price ($3.95 canada) • $3.50 u.s.
indicia publishing history states:
sixth printing / july 1985
1986 stated seventh printing
isbn 0-441-38291-6
cover price ($4.50 canada) • $3.50 u.s.
(the next reported edition is baen books mmpb (1996), but i've never seen this edition, so can't add it)
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Janissaries | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition
simultaneous with the trade p/b, and from the same collected signatures
cover art by enric torres-prat (unsigned, credited as enrich)
~70 b+w interior illustrations by luis bermejo (credited as bermejo)
cover price $9.95
344pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w illustrations etc, bound between covered boards
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Janissaries | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint trade p/b first printing, first edition
simultaneous with the h/cvr first edition and from the same signatures as this
cover art by enric torres-prat (unsigned, credited as enrich)
~70 b+w interior illustrations, many full-page by luis bermejo (credited as bermejo)
cover price $6.95
344pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Prince Of Mercenaries | falkenberg series #3:
#1: ''the mercenary'' (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Prince Of Mercenaries | baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by keith parkinson (signed, credited)
cover price $3.95
352pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map, etc, end pp. include excerpt from ''the children's hour'' jerry pournelle, s. m. stirling (1991), q.v., advertising
some copies have cover price overprinted in grey, slightly plasticky ink, with above this new
cover price $4.95
these were intended for distribution north of the parallel, in canada
refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical
baen books 11/1989 second mmpb printing on same isbn, same cover price:
indicia publishing history adds line:
second printing, november 1989
baen books 3/1991 third mmpb printing on same isbn:
indicia publishing history adds statement of third printing
cover price (can $5.95) u.s. $4.95
seen reported: end pp. excerpt changed: now from ''counting the cost'' david drake (1987), q.v.
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - The Mercenary | falkenberg series #1:
(first published the year after #2)
set in and around the start of the codominium setting):
#1: ''the mercenary'' (1977), (this novel)
#2: ''west of honor'' (1976), q.v.
#3: ''prince of mercenaries'' (1989), q.v.
#4: ''go tell the spartans'' jerry pournelle, s. m. stirling (1991), q.v.
#5: ''prince of sparta'' jerry pournelle, s. m. stirling (1993), q.v.
omnibus edition of #1 & #2:
#O1: ''future history'' (1980), q.v.
aka ''falkenberg's legion'' (us 1990), q.v.
(the latter adds a little connecting material)
omnibus edition of #1 & #2 (as #O1), #3, #4 and #5:
#O2: ''the prince'' (2002), q.v.
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ppint. 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - West Of Honor | falkenberg series #2:
published before #1:
#1: ''the mercenary'' (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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