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ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Roger Elwood - The Wounded Planet	author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	contents: introduction (nf) c. j. cherryh spider silk (novelette) in ''flashing swords! #3'' ed. lin carter (1976), q.v. sand sister (novella) in ''heroic fantasy'' eds. gerald w. page, hank reinhardt (1979), q.v. falcon blood (short story) in ''amazons!'' ed. jessica amanda salmanson (1979), q.v. legacy from sorn fen (ss) in ''garan the eternal'' andre norton (1972), q.v. sword of unbelief (ntte) in ''swords against darkness II'' ed. andrew offut (1972), q.v. the toads of grimmerdale (nlla) in ''flashing swords! #2'' ed. lin carter (1973/4), q.v. changeling (ntte) (° original to this collection)
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	daw books mmpb sixth printing reprint collection of two novellas°, three novelettes, two short stories, introduction by c. j. cherryh ° - one original with new isbn, cat#, new cover design typography cover art by michael whelan retained from first and later printings, credited near-meaningless daw books collector no.400 returned to front cover, under new style daw logo cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	daw books mmpb printing, which not reported by contributor i've not seen reported elsewhere; refer to the publishing history printing number line; it's indicated by the lowest remaining digit which should probapossibly be 5, indicating the fifth printing. i've added the isbn the text appears to've been re-set, as indicated by pagination increase to c.276pp.
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	daw books mmpb undated fourth printing, near-identical with first printings, with new isbn, cat# differs: cover price $2.50 indicia publishing history number line 4 5 6 7 8 9
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	daw books mmpb undated third printing, near-identical with first printings, new isbn, new cat# differs: cover price $2.25 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) indicia publishing history drops digits 1 & 2 leaving first printing, september 1980/3456789 (implicitly retrospectively deeming one of the two first printings to've been the second printing)
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Andre Norton - Lore Of The Witch World	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers reprint collection of two novellas°, three novelettes and two short stories, introduction by c. j. cherryh ° - one original to this collection cover art by michael whelan (signed mw, credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed) near-meaningless daw books collector no.400 cover price $2.25 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $1.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece etc, end pp. advertising refer also to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, september 1980/123456789 if digits 1 & 2 dropped leaving 3456789, cat# UE1634, isbn 0-87997-634-9, it is the third printing
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Phaze Doubt	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition simultaneous with yp/b card bind-up of the same signatures (0-450-42932-6 £6.95) cover (d-j) art by chris achilleos (signed with his a in a circle, uncredited) two b+w maps of phaze and of proton by michael storrings (signed storrings ©1987, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £11.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, maps etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Unicorn Point	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition simultaneous with yp/b card bind-up of the same signatures (0-450-42932-6 £6.95) cover (d-j) art by chris achilleos (signed with his a in a circle, uncredited) cover (d-j price £11.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Robot Adept	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition simultaneous with yp/b card bind-up of same signatures (0-450-42932-6 £6.95) cover (d-j) art by chris achilleos (signed with his a in a circle, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £11.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Out Of Phaze	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition simultaneous with yp/b card covers bind-up first printing from same signatures (0-450-42930-X £6.95) cover (d-j) art by chris achilleos (signed with his a in a circle, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £11.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month not given, taken from locus
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book James Hamilton-Paterson - Empire Of The Clouds	third printing bought recently online to give as a present: vg+ in vg+ d-j: £3.49 including postage - since a new p/b would be =/~100% more than this, worth looking out for if you've any friend as'd appreciate it - or would like it, yourself.
ppint. 5th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter	the thames publishing co. kingston library imprint h/cvr first printings, first edition it exists with both red and blue cloth-covered boards and colour plate frontispiece: no priority known cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 3s 6d net 216pp? (check in the morning) including titles, indicia etc, bound between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Tim Sullivan - The Martian Viking	the hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by ron walotsky (signed walotsky, credited) cover price (canada $4.25) • u.s. $3.50 248pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Tim Sullivan - Destiny's End	the hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by ron walotsky (credited) cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $2.95 316pp?(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Tim Sullivan - Lords Of Creation	the hearst corporation avon books avonova imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by joe devito (signed, credited cover price (canada $4.99) u.s. $3.99 (??)256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, c. 12 end pp. advertising ? appendices & advertising ?
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Moonferns And Starsongs	contents: a happy day in 2381 (short story) in ''nova one'' ed. harry harrison (1970) q.v., an urban monads story after the myths went home (ss) f&sf vol.37 #5, 11/1969 passengers (ss) ''orbit four'' ed. damon knight (1968), q.v. to be continued (ss) astounding vol.57 #3, 5/1956; astounding bre vol. xii #10, 10/1956, both: one b+w illustration by frank kelly freas; astounding bre vol. xiii #4, 4/1957 no illustration nightwings (novella); galaxy vol.27 #2, 9/1968, with three b+w illustrations by jack gaughan; collected in (slight)fix-up novel ''night wings'' robert silverberg (1969), q.v. we know who we are (ss) amazing vol.44 #2, 7/1970, one b+w illustration by jeff jones the pleasure of their company (novelette) ''infinity one'' ed. robert silverberg (1970), q.v. with ''our'' not ''their'' the songs of summer (ss) (original) science fiction stories vol.7 #2, 9/1956, one b+w illustration by frank kelly freas; authentic #82, 7/1957 a man of talent (ss) ''new dreams this morning'' ed. james blish (1966); (rewrite of ''the man of talent'' future sf #31, winter/1956-7; science fantasy #24, 8/1957) collecting team (ss) super science fiction vol.1 #1, 12/1956, as ''catch 'em all alive!'', two b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas; authentic #81, 6/1957 as ''collecting team'' going down smooth (ss) galaxy vol.27 #1, 8/1968, the cover story, being commissioned to fit the cover art by vaughn bodé, two b+w illustrations by brock
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles And The Black Peril	the thames publishing co. regent classics imprint h/cvr undated first printing, first thus text revised revised from that of the first edition ''the black peril'' (john hamilton 1935), q.v. cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price (none printed) 258pp. (re-check) including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia (ha!) etc. counted as eight pp, two blank end pp, sewn in signatures but bound without endpapers between deep red cloth-covered boards, first leaf of first signature and last leaf of last signature being glued onto the inside cover boards over the book hinges and the boards' cloth covering.
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles	thank-you for the dust-jacket, etc. images, graham7.
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Takes The Case	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition collection of eight special air police case stories plus a world war II short story cover (d-j) art by stead (leslie stead, signed and credited as stead), as are the nine unsigned b+w interior illustrations (one is a title page decoration used in more than one book) cover (d-j) price 7/6 192pp. including six pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 3 blank end pp, sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between deep-red cloth-covered boards first edition publishing history states first printed 1952
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Of The Special Air Police	published in regent classics by xmas 1953, as at least one copy bought and given then as a present. the month and year of publication are given on the front of what would have been the front fly page had the book been made with normal endpapers, but is instead glued to the inside of the front board.° ° i've read that this may be made visible temporarily by spraying with isopropyl alcohol, aka isopropanol, aka rubbing alcohol - which should be done in a well-ventilated space - ditto if using stamp collectors' benzene (n.b. must not be inhaled, either of them; benzene should be washed off skin immediately) will presumably work as well. n.b. the print will be visible - and legible - temporarily, in mirror image until the alcohol evaporates out.
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Of The Special Air Police	the thames publishing co. london regent classics imprint h/cvr first printings, first edition there are four known variants, two with red cloth, two with blue cloth-covered boards: the first printing is red cloth-covered, and has a colour plate frontispiece cover (d-j) art by jace m torneli ((sp?) (not very legibly-)signed, uncredited) cover (d-j) price (none printed) 256pp? (re-check!) eight unnumbered pp. implicity counted as four, including titles, indicia (ha!), table-of-contents etc, sewn in signatures - - but bound without fly endpapers, the first leaf of the first signature and the last leaf of the last signature being glued into the inside of the boards over the book hinges and the inside edges of the boards' red cloth covering.
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Sees It Through	geoffrey cumberlege, publisher to the university h/cvr first printing 1941, first edition oxford university press amen house london e.c.4 first published 1941 reprinted 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952 i.e. fifth printing cover (d-j) art: all geoffrey cumberlege/oup biggles books later printings share this uniform design d-j six b+w interior illustrations by alfred sindall (unsigned, credited) cover (d-j) price 256pp. including eight unnumbered unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, index of illustrations etc, 2 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between leaf-green cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Flies East	geoffrey cumberlege, publisher to the university h/cvr first published 1935 oxford university press reprinted 1937, 1941, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952 i.e. seventh printing cover (d-j) art uniform design on all geoffrey cumberlege / oup h/cvr later printings of the biggles books cover (d-j) price 266pp. including 10pp. titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 3 end pp: 1 blank p, 2pp. glossary of rfc terms and expressions used in this book with which readers may, or may not, be familiar (nf, uncredited), bound with endpapers between leaf-green cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book W. E. Johns - Biggles En Zijn Makkers	het spectrum prisma juniores p/b first printing, 1959 cover art by port (signed)
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - Android	note spelling of surname carefully: - this variant is/was one of the shy, self-effacing r. l. fanthorpe's many pseudonyms
ppint. 4th Jul 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - Android	john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Jul 2023		Book John Norman - Savages Of Gor	daw books mmpb fourth printing by publishing history printing number line 4 5 6 7 8 9 cover art by ken w. kelly near-meaningless daw books collector no.472 cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95 336pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp advertising
ppint. 3rd Jul 2023		Book John Norman - Savages Of Gor	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by ken w. kelly (unsigned sfacs though the painting likely is, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.472 cover price $3.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $3.50 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 336pp. (check) including six pp. titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising as per signet & daw mmpb simultaneous first printings from late 1980 to early 1992 generally, the initial digit ''1'' is dropped from the printing number line of the canadian-carcassed copies, formally identifying them as the second printing; no real-world temporal priority in publication is necessarily indicated
ppint. 3rd Jul 2023		Book C. S. Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader	first published date of 1962 is just plain wrong and should be corrected to 1952 this 15/9/1952 geoffrey bles h/cvr edition is the first edition and it was published in 1952, not in 1962. edit 13/8/2023: and now at last corrected

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