Latest Updates - C. L. Moore

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by greg hildebrandt, tim hildebrandt (signed hildebrandt, credited as the brothers hildebrandt)
cover price $1.95
384pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin-printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: march 1976

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:
weird tales (volume number issue number, month/year)

black god's kiss (vol.24 #4, 10/1934) jirel of joiry
shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933) northwest smith
black god's shadow (vol.24 #6, 12/1934) jirel of joiry
black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934) northwest smith
the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936) northwest smith
jirel meets magic (vol.26 #1, 7/1935) jirel of joiry
scarlet dream (vol.23 #5, 5/1934) northwest smith

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Comment by ppint.:

gnome press h/cvr first printing, first edition (& stated so on indicia page)

reprint collection of three jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes

cover (d-j) art by ric binkley (signed binkley, credited on dj back flap)
cover (d-j) price $3.00
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:
weird tales (volume number issue number, month/year)

black god's kiss (vol.24 #4, 10/1934) jirel of joiry
shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933) northwest smith
black god's shadow (vol.24 #6, 12/1934) jirel of joiry
black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934) northwest smith
the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936) northwest smith
scarlet dream (vol.23 #5, 5/1934) northwest smith

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Comment by ppint.:

tbl (thomson books ltd.) sphere books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition

reprint collection of two jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 60p, 64p eire, $1.95 australia & new zealand
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia (no table-of-contents) etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books imprint first printing, first edition/first thus
logo on front cover is the world distributors logo with those two words replaced by "consul books"

reprint collection of two jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 2'6
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

c. l. moore is tyopped "c. e. moore" on the cover, but given correctly on the title page etc.

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Comment by ppint.:

paperback library mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin-printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: October, 1965

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Comment by ppint.:

contents: novelelettes save the two elsewise indicated:
published in weird tales unless elsewise indicated:

teaching the world to dream (original nf introduction) c. j. cherryh
shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933)
black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934)
scarlet dreams (vol.23 #5, 5/1934)
dust of gods (vol.24 #2, 8/1934)
julhi (vol.25 #3, 3/1925)
nymph of darkness (short story co-written with forrest j. ackerman) (vol.34 #6, 12/1939)
the cold gray god (vol.26 #4, 10/1935)
yvala (vol.27 #2, 2/1936)
lost paradise (vol.28 #1, 7/1936)
the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936)
quest of the starstone (novelette co-written with henry kuttner; also a jirel story) (vol.30 #5, 11/1937)
werewoman (fanzine/semi-prozine leaves #2, winter 1938)
song in a minor key (short story) (fanzine scienti-snaps vol.3 #1, 2/1940) (fantastic universe vol.7 #1, 1/1957)
about the author (nf, uncredited)

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Comment by ppint.:

reprint collection of five novelettes featuring jirel, but n.b. not all six of them: omitted is "quest of the starstone" weird tales vol.30 no.5, 11/1937, q.v. by c. l. moore and henry kuttner, featuring both of c. l. moore's main heroes, jirel of joiry and northwest smith.