Latest Updates - John Brunner

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

introduction
some lapse of time (novelette) science fantasy #57, 2/1963
imprint of chaos (ntte) science fantasy #42, 8/1960 (traveller in black)
thou good and faithful (ntte) as by john loxmith, astounding vol. li #1, 3/1953, cover story, art & 4 b+w illustrations by pawelka; astounding atlas bre vol. ix #8, 8/1953, cover based on that by pawelka, 2 b+w illustrations from the four by pawelka; this story's text is noted as being revised

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Comment by ppint.:

max curfew series #3:

#1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

tbl sphere books p/b first printing, first uk, and i think world first, p/b edition

cover art unsigned colour photographic
cover price 35p, 1.10c australia, 1.10c new zealand
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

the advertised - and printed - antipodean cover prices may not have been quite what was intended

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Comment by ppint.:

constable & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned
cover (d-j) price £1.75
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between dark grey-to-black cloth-covered boards, title author, publisher on gold on spine

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Comment by ppint.:

max curfew series #2:

#1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

walter reade organization pyramid books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

cover art by j. asaro
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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 pyramid edition published may 1971
an isbn is given, but it is that of the hodder & stoughton first edition

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Comment by ppint.:

hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by jefferson godwin (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap)
cover (d-j) price 25/- £1.25
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

max curfew series #1:

#1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969) (this novel)
aka "blacklash" (merkin mmpb 1969), q.v.
#2: "good men do nothing" (1970), q.v.
#3: "honky in the woodpile" (1971), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited, unremarkable
cover price 25p
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

the thriller book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition, for sale to members of the book club only, not for sale to the general public by way of trade via the newsagents nor book trades nor otherwise

cover (d-j) art (unsigned , uncredited monochrome red with black typography)
cover price (none)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

walter reade organization pyramid books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition

cover art by fred pfeiffer (signed)
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, colour photographic)
cover (d-j) price 25/-
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

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

cover art by darrell k. sweet (unsigned, sfaics, credited)
cover price $3.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer also 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 ballantine books edition october 1982

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Comment by ppint.:

possibly an early michael whelan cover painting (has the style & tones of some of his work)? - try and work out a way of tracking this down

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Comment by ppint.:

abp group methuen london p/b first printing, apparently the first edition

cover art by peter elson (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50
232pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

macdonald futura publications sphere / orbit p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £3.99, $9.99 australia, $15.95 new zealand
400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

month of publication not given, taken from locus

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Comment by ppint.:

random century/random house uk arrow books legend imprint p/b first printing, second arrow books printing retaining arrow books arrow imprint isbn

cover art by mark salwowski (unsigned, uncredited, is on mark salwowski's website)
cover price £4.99 (check for overseas territories prices)
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

century hutchinson, or random century arrow books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly by john harris, judged by style & date, etc: smoking - not steaming - cooling tower)
cover price £2.50, $7.95 australia
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

namara group quartet books first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by eddie jones (signed)
cover price £1.25 (check for overseas territories prices)
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

n.b. cover bears new distributor, futura publications ltd,'s sf & fantasy imprint logo on front cover, but was nevertheless published by quartet books, as stated on back cover, title page, indicia page, etc...

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Comment by ppint.:

j. m. dent & sons first printing, first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art ''le colosse'' ou ''la panique'' attributed to goya (also known as la tempête)
cover (d-j) price £2.95
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books imprint mmpb fifth printing over-all

cover art by steele savage
cover price $1.75
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

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Comment by ppint.:

macdonald & co. publishers first printing, first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited line drawing ''keyholed'' onto the shaded red fill of the standard design letters sf, purple field
cover (d-j) price 42/-
508pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books p/b second printing, with new isbn, new

cover art unsigned, uncredited; by tim white iirc
cover price £1.75, $5.85 australia, $5.50 new zealand
576pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

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Comment by ppint.:

hutchinson & co. arrow books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned sfaics, uncredited; i think it's by chris yates, but this is not "an attribution°
cover price 10s 50p, R1.20 south africa, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand
576pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

° - the full artwork may well bear his c.y., but is almost certainly long since junked by antony cheetham's conrad

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books mmpb seventh printing, with new cat#, isbn, retains

cover art by murray tinkelman
cover price $1.95
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly plus end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books mmpb sixth printing, with new cat#, isbn, new

cover art by murray tinkelman
cover price $1.95
666pp..(check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly plus end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

random house group ballantine books mmpb fourth printing

cover art by steele savage and cover design retained from third printing
cover price $1.25
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly plus end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

ballantine books° mmpb third printing, with new cover design, new cat#

cover art by steele savage retained, blown up some and moved downwards on cover, signature no longer visible, titles re-set, banner puff-line hugo award winner added above author's name, background behind titles now white (i.e. unprinted card), pinked-edge black bezant bearing cover price above the word, ''classic'' reversed-out in cartouche
cover price $1.25
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly plus end pp.

° - check title page & indicia for line stating ''an intext publisher''; please comment if present/absent