Latest Updates - Ron Goulart

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Comment by ppint.:

sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited on front or back d-j flap (check))
cover (d-j) price £1.75
188pp.(check) including four unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

what's become of screwloose? (short story) if vol.20 #6, 7-8/1970; if universal-tandem bre 8-9/1970
junior partner (ss) fantastic vol.11 #9, 9/1962; reprinted in science fiction greats #16, winter/1969
hardcastle (ss) ©1971 apparently original in this collection
into the shop (ss) f&sf vol.26 #4, 4/1964
prez (ss) if vol.20 #2, 2/1970; if universal-tandem bre vol.20 #2, 3/1970
confessions (novelette) f&sf vol.39 #2, 8/1970
monte cristo complex (ss) ©1971 apparently original in this collection
the yes-men of venus (ss) amazing vol.37 #7, 7/1963 as the yes men of venus
keeping an eye on janey (ss) in "infinity one" ed. robert hoskins (1970)
hobo jungle (ntte) f&sf vol.38 #6, 6/1970 (a ben jolsen chameleon corps story)

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Comment by ppint.:

first in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970) (this novel)
"gadget man" (1971), q.v.
"hawkshaw" (1972), q.v.
"crackpot" (1977), q.v.
"brinkman" (1981), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

second in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970), q.v.
"gadget man" (1971), (this novel)
"hawkshaw" (1972), q.v.
"crackpot" (1977), q.v.
"brinkman" (1981), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

fifth in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970), q.v.
"gadget man" (1971), q.v.
"hawkshaw" (1972), q.v.
"crackpot" (1977), q.v.
"brinkman" (1981), (this novel)

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Comment by ppint.:

fourth in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970), q.v.
"gadget man" (1971), q.v.
"hawkshaw" (1972), q.v.
"crackpot" (1977), (this novel)
"brinkman" (1981), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

third in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970), q.v.
"gadget man" (1971), q.v.
"hawkshaw" (1972), (this novel)
"crackpot" (1977), q.v.
"brinkman" (1981), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

man of a thousand faces (nf introduction)
chameleon (short story) f&sf vol.27 #3, 9/1964
rake (ss) f&sf vol.29 #1, 6/1965
copstate (ss) f&sf vol.36 #5, 9/1969
masterpiece (ss) 1972°
sunflower (novelette) f&sf vol.39 #6, 12/1970
ignatz (ss) if vol.10 #1, 3/1960; if strato bre #3, (?3/1960?)
subject to change galaxy (ss) vol.19 #2, 1/1960; thorpe & porter bre #83 (12/1969 ?1/1961?)
please stand by (ss) f&sf vol.22 #1, 1/1962; atlas bre vol. v #2, 1/1964 (a max kearney story)
shandy (ss) if vol.8 #6, 10/1958
change over (ss) 1972°
looking into it (ss) 1972°

° - original publication in this collection

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Comment by ppint.:

odd jobs series listing completed, all links to & fro written and tested ok.

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Comment by ppint.:

odd jobs series #1:

#1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), (this book)
#2: "hail hibbler" (1980), q.v.
#3: "big bang" (1982), q.v.
#4: "brainz, inc." (1985), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

odd jobs series #4:

#1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

daw books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art by tim jacobus (unsigned, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collectors number 629
cover price (canada $3.25) • u.s. $2.75
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
published simultaneously, both state first printing, may 1985 canadian-carcassed copies drop
the "1" from the number-string: /23456789 formally identifying them as the second printing

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Comment by ppint.:

odd jobs series #3:

#1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

odd jobs series #2:

#1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

jack summer series listing completed, all links to & fro written and tested ok.

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Comment by ppint.:

jack summer series #1:

#1: "death cell" (1971), (this book)
#2: "plunder" (1972), q.v.
#3: "a whiff of madness" (1976), q.v.
#4: "galaxy jane " (1986), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

intext group beagle boxer imprint mmpb first printing

cover art by vincent difate (signed, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.

may have been scheduled for publication at 75¢, as this price is given on the back cover;
or this may have been the price of the first beagle mmpb printing -
- if this 95¢ cover-priced mmpb is an undeclared second printing

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:
not quite all of the max kearney stories°:
all but two first published in f&sf:

please stand by (short story) vol.22 #1, 1/1962; atlas bre vol. v #2, 1/1964
uncle arley (ss) vol.23 #1, 7/1962; atlas bre vol. iii #12, 11/1962
help stamp out chesney (original here)
mcnamara's fish (ss) vol.25 #1, 7/1963; atlas bre vol. iv #12, 11/1963
kearney's last case (ss) vol.29 #3, 9/1965
breakaway house (ss) vol.30 #5, 5/1966
the ghost patrol (ss) vol.35 #4, 10/1968
the strawhouse pavillion (ss) coven 13, (probably meant to be vol.1 #3, but states vol.1 #2), 1/1970
fill in the blank (ss) vol.32 #5, 5/1967

° - not collected are:

time was (ss) f&sf vol.20 #2, 2/1961; atlas bre vol. ii #7, 6/1961
hello from hollywood (ss) f&sf vol.65 #6, 12/1983

there would appear to be adequate justification for the omission of the latter.

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Comment by ppint.:

beagle books was an imprint of, or a publisher involved in, intext publishers & the affair that caught up ian and betty ballantine when they sold their publishing house, ballantine books, to intext.

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Comment by ppint.:

jack summer #4:

#1: "death cell" (1971), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by boris vallejo (signed, credited)
cover price ($3.75 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
176pp. including four unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by james warhola (signed, credited)
cover price ($2.95 canada) • $2.75 u.s.
160pp. including four unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

"quad" is generally the abbreviation for a/the quadrangle in an elizabethan, stuart or uk hanoverian country house, college or pretty fancy town house inner courtyard, frequently but not inevitably including a lawn or similar: in pre-henry tydder/henry viii fidei defensor (ha!) times, often spectacularly stone-cloistered for monks, nuns, abbots and other prelates to pass both the time in contemplation whilst in circular progression, and also for them to take decorous exercise whilst enabling them to avoid the weather...

yr hmbl srppnt.'s unshakeable 'spicion is the title is a tyop for "hellsquad" missed by the publisher's copy and/or proof-reader, which would fit the protagonists, the circumstances and the plot. . .

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Comment by ppint.:

harry challenge #1:

#1: "the prisoner of blackwood castle" (1984), (this book)
#2: 'the curse of the obelisk" (1987), q.v.

omnibus edition of #1 & #2:

#O: "harry challenge: victorian supernatural sleuth" (2015), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by tom kidd (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.50
176pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc.

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Comment by ppint.:

harry challenge #2:

#1: "the prisoner of blackwood castle" (1984), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by james warhola (signed, credited)
cover price (canada $3.95) u.s. $2.95
144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Back cover scan added

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Cover scans added. Unfortunately rear cover defaced by impossible-to-remove-without-tearing sticker. It covers the "first publication anywhere" claim which would seem to contradict the existence of a hardcover edition by Scribner and according to ppint the fact the stories were previously printed.