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ppint.
9th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory
berkley publishing group ace books mmpb fourth printing, mis-stated the third printing in indicia
the new cat# would be correct for the third printing, but that was 9/1980 and 21885

new cover design, and reverts to the first two printings'
cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris)
cover price $2.75
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
adds indicia publishing history line immediately below first ace edition / july 1978
third printing: december 1983


distinguish from ace books near-identical 1986 correctly identified fifth mmpb printing, which differs:
isbn 0-441-22218-8
cat# 22218 (which would have been correct for the fourth printing)
cover price: ($3.95 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
indicia replaces line immediately below modified ace edition / july 1978 with
fifth printing / november 1986

ppint.
9th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory
grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb unstated third printing, with new

cover art by david plourde (signed plourde, though miscredited to boris; new cover design)
cover price $2.25
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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9th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory
grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris, credited to boris)
cover price $1.75
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

distinguish from near-identical 1979 second printing with same cover art (credit dropped) which differs:
isbn 0-441-22216-1
cat# 22216 (correctly increased by one from that of the first printing)
cover price $1.95
adds indicia publishing history line stating
second printing, march 1979

ppint.
9th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - High Justice
#1 of two:

#1: ''high justice'' (1977), (this non fix-up/collection)
#2: ''exiles to glory'' (1978), q.v.

omnibus edition of #1 & #2:
#O: ''exile - and glory'' (2008), q.v.

ppint.
8th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - High Justice
macdonald & co. futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by chris moore (unsigned, uncredited, collected in ''parallel lines'' peter elson, chris moore (1981), q.v.)
cover price £1.25, $4.50 australia
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from

near-identical 1984 second printing, which differs:
cover price £1.95
publishing history adds line stating reprinted 1984

near-identical 1987 third printing, which differs:
isbn, uk price now in the white bar-code box on the back cover,
bar-code number 9780708 880678 00250
cover price £2.50

ppint.
8th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - High Justice
pocket books mmpb second printing, with new

cover art by attila hejja
cover price $1.95
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

publication date taken from locus #230, 2/1980


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical third printing, which differs:
cover price $2.25
indicia publishing history printing number line has lowest remaining digit 3

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Jerry Pournelle - High Justice
pocket books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition

reprint non fix-up / collection of novelettes and two short stories

cover art by ed (edward) soyka (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.75
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

front cover of canadian-carcassed copies bear a small white maple leaf, states published in canada
refer also to indicia publishing history to check carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state pocket book edition published may, 1977

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
paperback library mmpb second printing with striking new

cover art (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from sphere books second printing; i attribute it to michael leonard as matching covers known to be by him very closely)
(seen said to be by frank frazetta (without any justifying reference): extremely atypically-styled for frazetta, and to be by but unsigned by him by this date is also highly unlikely))
cover price 75¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
paperback library mmpb first printing, first merkin edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited, believed to be by jeff jones (check)
cover price 75¢
176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
bpc by now prob'ly macdonald & co. (publishers) h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
approximately simultaneous with the macdonald/futura p/b first printing with which it shares°

cover (d-j) art by mick van houten (unsigned, uncredited; shared with p/b edition)
cover (d-j) price £8.95
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

° announced for simultaneous publication, the macdonald h/cvr editions frequently trailed the futura p/bs during this era of macdonald / futura / orbit

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
macdonald & co. publishers futura books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
approximately simultaneous with the macdonald & co. publishers h/cvr edition with which it shares

cover art by mick van houten
cover price £1.95 (overseas territories prices?)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

identified as book four in the atlantis saga, but this is variable: is book three if book two is not split

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8th Jul 2023
Book
Robert Silverberg - Valley Beyond Time
contents:

introduction (nf) robert silverberg
valley beyond time (novella) science fiction adventures (us) vol.2 #2, 12/1957, one b+w illustration by ed emshwiller; science fantasy #27, 2/1958
the flame and the hammer (nlla) science fiction adventures (us) vol.1 #6, 9/1957
the wages of death (ntte) if vol.8 #5, 8/1958, one b+w illustration by virgil finlay; science fiction adventures (uk) #20, 5/1961, cover story, art by brian lewis
spacerogue (ntte) infinity vol.4 #2, 11/1958 as by webber martin, cover story, and one b+w illustration also by ed emshwiller

ppint.
7th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
white lion h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited
cover (d-j) price (c. £3) (parts of d-j flaps not visible on the library laminated rebinding seen)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards


white lion publishers were primarily (though not solely) a supplier of books to the uk public libraries
the budgets of the uk public libraries were progressively cut - and then the single largest local authority, and with it, its excellent library service, was destroyed as a matter of doctrinaire right-wing idiocy:
white lion seems to've ceased publishing fiction hardcover reprints during 1977 in consequence, and possibly shortly after ceased to exist.

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7th Jul 2023
Book
Jane Gaskell - The City
tandem books ltd. tandem imprint p/b first printing, not first p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; probably by dave pether, the artist for at least two of tandem's cija p/bs
cover price 45p, 48p eire, 50c malta
192p. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

an isbn is trivially derivable from the sbn, but the cover bears the nine-digit sbn

ppint.
7th Jul 2023
Book
H. P. Lovecraft - Omnibus 3: The Haunter Of The Dark
first published year is wrong and should be corrected to 1985:

''h. p. lovecraft omnibus 3: the haunter of the dark: and other tales'' was first published in 1985


this collection is some two hundred pages longer than panther books' 1963 cat#1474,
''the haunter of the dark and other tales of terror'' (first: victor gollancz h/cvr 1951), q.v.,
containing all of the earlier collection plus one novella, two novelettes and a short story;

this 200pp. difference is more than long enough to be an entire p/b on its own - so this is significantly different a book, as well as a different title!

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7th Jul 2023
Book
H. P. Lovecraft - Omnibus 3: The Haunter Of The Dark
wm collins sons grafton books imprint p/b second printing, third printing including the 1985 granada publishing group panther books imprint first printing, first edition of this ''h. p. lovecraft omnibus 3: the haunter of the dark and other stories''

reprint collection of three novellas, seven novelettes, four short stories, nf introduction by august derleth

cover art by tim white unsigned, credited on back cover, collected in ''chiaroscuro'' tim white (1988), q.v.
cover price £4.50, $10.99 australia, $15.99 new zealand
544pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
7th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - Blind Voices
penguin group penguin imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by peter goodfellow (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.75, $4.95 australia
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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7th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - Blind Voices
berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by david plourde (signed, shared from first edition h/cvr d-j where it is credited)
cover price $1.95
248pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

artist's signature is visible because a slightly different view of the cover art is used on the mmpb:
it's just off the lower edge of the h/cvr d-j.

ppint.
6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - Blind Voices
sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art (none; dark blue typography on silver field with graduated dark blue horizontal lines)
cover (d-j) price £5.95 (the uk science fiction book club offered s&j copies to members at £4.50)
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards


unbound collected signatures later assembled together with like of ''the ultimax man'' keith laumer (also sidgwick & jackson 1978) in ''science fiction special 37'' ed. anon. (sidgwick & jackson h/cvr 1981), q.v.

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - Blind Voices
berkley publishing group berkley putnam h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by david plourde (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price $8.95
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

day of publication from inlaid publishers review copy slip


distinguish from near-identical doubleday science fiction book club edition:
cover (d-j) bears no price on front flap, instead states book club edition
cat# 5438 on d-j back flap
184pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound between covered boards

ppint.
6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories
Review
this seems to be the only book published by earthlight publishers - but what a book!

almost all the fiction tom reamy wrote - one remained unpublished by the editor to whom he'd submitted it for first publication, so couldn't be included without being withdrawn - excluding only two°, plus his only novel, ''blind voices'', which was published ''completed, but unfinished'' (he was still polishing it) posthumously, after the heart attack which killed him.°

beautifully-written, oftimes ominous, threatening, frequently horror-inducing, fantasy; earth-set but not earthbound, and well worthy of being published in such a beautiful edition.

° - missing are:

jenny's friends (short story) fantastic worlds (fanzine) vol.2 #2, spring 1954
sting! (short play) in ''six science fiction plays'' ed. roger elwood (1976), q.v.
m is for the million things (short story) in ''new voices 4: the john w. campbell award nominees'' ed. george r. r. martin (1981), q.v.
potiphee, petey and me (novelette) (sold to harlan ellison for ''the last dangerous visions'' (unpublished); eventually appeared in ''under the hollywood sign'' tom reamy (750-copy limited edition h/cvr 2023), q.v.°°

(°° - this 2023 collection is sfaik the complete novellas, novelettes, and short stories bar one (jenny's friends), compilation - it incorporates all of ''san diego lightfoot sue and other stories'' - but is considerably scarcer, and liable to be pricey - it bears a $50.00 cover price. . .)

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ppint.
6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories
contents:

enter the departing shadow (nf) harlan ellison
twilla (novelette) f&sf vol.47'#3, 9/1974
under the hollywood sign (ntte) in ''orbit 17'' ed. damon knight (1975), q.v.
beyond the cleft (ntte) in ''nova 4'' ed. harry harrison (1974), q.v.
san diego lightfoot sue (ntte) f&sf vol.49 #2, 8/1975
dinosaurs (ntte) in ''new dimensions 6'' ed. robert silverberg (1976), q.v.
the sweetwater factor (short story) in ''lone star universe'' eds. geo w. proctor, steven utley (1976), q.v.
the mistress of windraven (ss) chacal 1, winter/1976
the detweiler boy (ntte) f&sf vol.52 #4, 4/1977
insects in amber (ntte) f&sf vol.54 #1, 1/1978
waiting for billy star (ss) shayol #2, 2/1978
2076: blue eyes (ss) shayol #3, summer 1979

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories
berkley publishing group ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

collection of a novella, six novelettes, four short stories, nf article by harlan ellison

cover art by david heffernan (signed, credited)
cover price $2.95
336pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, end pp. advertising

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories
earthlight publishers hcvr first printing, limited first edition, 100 copies in cloth-covered slipcase
kansas city, missouri

cover (d-j) art by diane dillon, leo dillon
interior illustratios including endpapers' decoration by diane dillon, leo dillon
cover (d-j) price $14.95
slip-cased limited edition price $25.00
264pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, bound in decorated endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Alan Dean Foster - Orphan Star
new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover) (fossoid, doubtless on art director's direction)
cover price 85p, 93½p republic of ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.80 new zealand
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. excerpt from ''the end of the matter'' (pip & flinx #3), advertising


refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical

second printing which differs:
adds line stating reprinted july 1983
cover price £1.50

third printing which differs:
adds line
third impression 1988
cover price £2.50

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Alan Dean Foster - Orphan Star
ballantine books mmpb second printing, near-identical to first printings with new isbn, cat#
differs:

cover price $1.75
indicia publishing history adds line stating second printing

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Alan Dean Foster - Orphan Star
pip and flinx #2:

#1: ''the tar-aiym krang'' (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Alan Dean Foster - Orphan Star
ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art by darrell k. sweet (signed, credited without the ''d.'')
cover price $1.50
242pp. (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 first edition: march,1977

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Roger Elwood - The Wounded Planet
''cogswell thomas'' is a collaborative pseudonym of theodore (r.) cogswell, theodore (t. l.) thomas

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6th Jul 2023
Book
Roger Elwood - The Wounded Planet
bantam books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

almost entirely original anthology of three novelettes, thirteen short stories, five poems, and one nf essay, nf introduction by frank herbert

cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik
cover price $1.25
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising


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