ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye | harpercollinspublishers a-format ''special edition'' - open market - p/b
cover art by john harris (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £5.99, $12.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia, dramatis personae etc, end pp.
if any remained unsold, copies of this ''special edition'' may have been distributed within the uk (i.e. not only in airport shops etc. beyond the passport check gates) after the september 1994 publication of the uk a-format p/b for general distribution
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye | harpercollinspublishers a-format p/b first printing for distribution within the yuk-of-gb-&-ni
preceded by the near-identical open market ''special edition'' a-format p/b on the same isbn
cover art by john harris (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £5.99, $12.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia, dramatis personae etc, end pp.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye | harpercollinspublishers yp/b card bind-up of the h/cvr signatures, ~first uk p/b edition
preceded by the open market a-format ''special edition'' officially only for sale in uk airports and overseas
cover art by john harris (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £8.99
412pp. (check) including titles, indicia, dramatis personae etc, end p.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye | harpercollinspublishers h/cvr first printing, probably first uk edition
then published ~six months later in yp/b, a card-covered bind-up of the same signatures held back...
(this h/cvr may have been beaten to release by the first printing of the harpercollinspublishers a-format p/b, which was released in the open market in february 1993)
cover (d-j) art by john harris (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price £14.99
412pp. (check) including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, dramatis personae etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Gripping Hand | aka ''the most around murcheson's eye'' (uk 1993 & ff.)
the sequel to ''the mote in god's eye'' larry niven, jerry pournelle (1973), q.v.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookLarry Niven - The Gripping Hand | simon & schuster pocket books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by lee macleod (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price canada $27.50, u.s.$22.00
412pp. including (i)-x pp. titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with different uncredited map endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJohn Rackham - We, The Venusians | half 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; suggested by corrick to be by jack gaughan
cover price 45¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising p. in-between the double's halves
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - A Sweet, Sweet Summer | Reviewnear-future set novel of a teen(?) in an england where social order has broken down, gangs of communists and fascists are fighting and controlling large areas of inner cities, and on top of this, super-powerful aliens dictate orders sent from their ships hovering(?) above major cities - and pel's strange, wild cousin frijja comes to stay...
- i didn't get very far into this, before i had to renew it, or return it to the library. i returned it.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - A Sweet, Sweet Summer | hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned photographic collage including open barber's folding razor with chipped end
cover (d-j) price
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Some Summer Lands | the macdonald & co. publishers h/cvr announced for simultaneous publication has not been reported from libraries nor as being spotted in the wild; it may not in fact have appeared
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Some Summer Lands | cija/atlan series #4 (some re-publishers account it #5, when they split #2 in two):
#1: ''the serpent'' (1963), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Atlan | tandem books first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by unsigned, uncredited; probapossibly by dave pether but style does not match that of the two tandem books p/b editions of the cja books covers definitely by him very closely)
cover price 60p, 65c malta, (other overseas territories prices?)
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Atlan | white lion publishers h/cvr 1977 first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover (d-j) price (£3.50?)
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Atlan | macdonald & co. publishers futura publications p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
approximately simultaneous with the macdonald publishers h/cvr edition°
cover art by mick van houten (unsigned, uncredited, confirmed by the artist)
cover price £2.50
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - the two were advertised as being published simultaneously, but the macdonald h/cvr frequently trailed the p/b edition by weeks or even a month or so.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Atlan | coronet communications paperback library imprint mmpb second printing
cover art by michael leonard (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced on michaelleonardartist.com sans id or typography)
cover price 95¢
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
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ppint. ● 11th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - Atlan | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first merkin edition
cover art by frank frazetta (signed frazetta, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
the number-string 610-55738-095 on the spine is not an sbn even when the last element, the cover price in cents in three digits, is dropped; it may be an abn (american book number)
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - The Dragon | macdonald & co. or bpcc futura publications p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by mick van houten (unsigned, uncredited; prob'ly shared with macdonald h/cvr d-j art°)
cover price £1.95
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - there was very probably a macdonald h/cvr edition of this, but i've no record of having seen such
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - The Serpent (First Half) | macdonald & co. or bpcc futura publications ~simultaneous p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by mick van houten (unsigned, uncredited, shared with macdonald h/cvr d-j)
cover price £2.50 (? any overseas territories prices?)
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - The Serpent (First Half) | macdonald & co. (publishers) h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition thus°
cover (d-j) art by mick van houten unsigned, uncredited
cover (d-j) price £8.95
308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
° - the first half (five chapters) of the full novel first published in 1963 in one h/cvr by hodder & stoughton
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - The Serpent | coronet communications paperback library imprint mmpb second printing with new cat#, new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited, i judge to be by michael leonard; certainly in his style; he did the others in the cija trilogy in the paperback library mmpb line)
cover price 95¢
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJane Gaskell - The Serpent | coronet communications paperback library imprint mmpb first printing, first merkin edition
cover art by frank frazetta (signed, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
480pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookGahan Wilson - Is Nothing Sacred? | abp group / methuen london medium format p/b (a bit larger than b-format) first printing, first uk edition
cover art by gahan wilson (b+w cartoon contained within, framed in a pink border, plus typography)
cover price (?£4.95 check)
128pp. including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookGahan Wilson - Is Nothing Sacred? | (richard) marek/st. martin's press, inc. very large format h/cvr first printing, first edition
~simultaneous with the very large format p/b first printing card bind-up of the same signatures
cover (d-j) art by gahan wilson (coloured version of a full-page cartoon contained within)
cover (d-j) price $14.95
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
very large format p/b edition near-identical except for binding, absence of endpapers:
isbn 0-312-43708-0
cover price $5.95
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookGahan Wilson - "...and Then We'll Get Him!" | richard marek h/cvr first printing, first edition
published simultaneously with the first p/b card-covered bind-up of signatures of same print-run
~190 b+w fantasy, horror & humor cartoons mostly reprinted from playboy, the new yorker, the magazine of fantasy & science fiction (f&sf), collier's magazine, and the national lampoon
cover (d-j) art by gahan wilson (colour-printed version of one of the contained b+w full-page cartoons)
cover (d-j) price $12.95
128 very large format pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
near-identical p/b first printing, first p/b edition differs:
isbn 0-399-90014-4
cover price c.$5
128 very large format pp. including titles, indicia etc.
from the (i)sbn publisher code (0-)399- richard marek seems to've been associated with g. p. putnam at this time; richard marek (or just marek) is later associated with/became part of st. martin's press group
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookGahan Wilson - Graveside Manner | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gahan wilson
cover price 40¢
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookJames Tiptree Jr. - Crown Of Stars | cover price $4.95 u.s. ($5.95 can(ada))
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookBrian Aldiss - The Canopy Of Time | contents:
author's note (nf) brian w. aldiss
three's a cloud (short story) new worlds #79, 1/1959 as ''the unbeaten track''
all the world's tears (ss) nebula sf #21, 5/1957
who can replace a man? (ss) infinity vol.3 #5, 6/1958 as ''but who can replace a man?''
blighted profile (ss) science fantasy #29, 6/1958, revised 1964(1963?) (then re-written in 1985(1979?))
judas danced (ss) star science fiction (#1), 1/1958 as ''judas dancing''; science fantasy #27, 2/1958
o ishrail! (ss) new worlds #48, 4/1957 as ''oh ishrail!''
incentive (ss) new worlds #78, 12/1958
gene hive (ss) nebula sf #30, 5/1958; nebula sf (us) #?, 9/1958: in both, as ''journey to the interior'', with two b+w illustrations by atom; aka ''gene-hive'' (i.e. hyphenated)
secret of a mighty city (ss) f&sf vol.14 #5, 5/1958 as ''have your hatreds ready''
they shall inherit (ss) nebula sf #32, 7/1958; nebula sf (us) #?, 11/1958
visiting amoeba (novelette) authentic #82, 7/1957 as ''what triumphs?''
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookBrian Aldiss - Space, Time And Nathaniel | contents:
foreword (nf) brian w. aldiss (original to the 4square p/b edition (1966))
introduction (nf) brian w. aldiss
t (nebula sf #18, 11/1956)
our kind of knowledge (new worlds #36, 6/1955)
psyc!ops (new worlds #49, 7/1956)
conviction (new worlds #51, 9/1956)
not for an age (the observer, 9/1/1955) (reprinted in ''a. d. 2500: the observer competition prize-winning stories 1954'' ed. anonymously (1955), q.v.)
the shubshub race (apparently original to this collection)
criminal record (science fantasy #9, 7/1954)
the failed men (science fantasy #18, 5/1956)
supercity (apparently original to this collection)
there is a tide (new worlds #44, 2/1956)
pogsmith (authentic #57, 5/1955)
outside (new worlds #31, 1/1955)
panel game (new worlds #42, 12/1955)
dumb show (nebula sf #19, 12/1956)
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ppint. ● 10th Jul 2023 | | BookUrsula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness | hachette uk orion publishing group gollancz b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b
two introductions: 4pp. by china miéville (new), followed by ursula k. le guin's 4pp.1976 introduction
cover art by vincent chong (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £8.99 (no other prices)
336pp. including (i)-xviii pp. titles, indicia, two nf introductions etc, 18 end pp: ''the gethenian calendar and clock'' (nf within f) ursula k. le guin (1974), 1p. brief uncredited biographical note, 3pp. advertising interspersed amongst 13 blank pp. (re-check)
the cover has a strange matte effect finish all over
month and day of publication not given: taken from locus #678
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ppint. ● 9th Jul 2023 | | BookJerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory | #2 of 2:
serialised in galaxy vol.38 #7, 9/1977, cover story, art and two b+w illustrations by stephen fabian, vol.38 #8, 10/1977, cover story, art and five b+w illustrations by stephen fabian:
#1: ''high justice'' (1977), q.v.
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