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Member	Book		Comment / Review
23skidoo 6 hours ago		Patrick Macnee Blind In One Ear	Usually when I come across books marked "General" it is by way of a sticker as General was only the distributor to Canada, not the printer (i.e., remove the sticker and the book has no difference to any sold in the UK; in fact I will be indexing one shortly. This is the first time I have actually encountered a book that has had General act as publisher, to the point of replacing the original UK with their own imprint and ISBN.
JimEss SUBS 7 hours ago		Harlan Ellison I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream	Covers added.
JPGR&B SUBS 20 hours ago		Richard Havers The Beatles	Full description from Amazon: Celebrate The Beatles with rare photographs and a never-before-seen collection of removable, collectible memorabilia. At one time the most famous pop band in the world, The Beatles still hold center stage. Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers them, and the digital remastering of their output has ensured that younger generations know them too. How could they not? The songs will live forever and are regularly used in film or TV scores, on advertisements, and on radio channels everywhere. With such coverage and interest, how can there be anything new to say about the band? The Beatles manages to do so thanks to the remarkable collection of photographs housed in Mirropix, the library of the Daily Mirror, Britain’s premier popular daily. With so much interest in the band, photographers were always looking to cover not just the major events that all the media attended, but smaller, more intimate moments. And then, of course, there were the paparazzi: The Beatles were perfect targets for this new breed of photographer who didn’t ask for permission to take their photos and followed George, Paul, John, and Ringo wherever they went. The book begins with an overview, starting with Brian Epstein’s birth in 1934 to The Beatles signing with him in 1961, in between covering their time in Liverpool, their start as the Quarrymen, their gigs in Hamburg, and the dawn of what would become their iconic hairstyles. Each ensuing chapter contains unique timelines that highlight notable daily activities each year, from concert dates, to personal matters (Paul marries Linda March 12, 1969), to epic events that solidify the group's fame forever (Apple Records launches August 11, 1968). The book finishes with a chapter on the band’s breakup and their lives, post-Beatles. Included are 15 removable reproductions of collectible memorabilia, including: - Concert posters and flyers for the group’s performances, including at the Odeon (with Roy Orbison in 1963) and their record-breaking Shea Stadium appearance (1965) - 1963 program cover for a Royal performance in the presence of the Queen Mother at the Prince of Wales Theatre - 1963 signed souvenir card from their Scottish tour of Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, and Dundee - Cover from a pictorial commemorating their 1964 performances at Carnegie Hall - 1965 Christmas card signed by the Fab Four - 1966 advertisement for the band’s US single release, “Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby” - Cartoon and caricature cards Mirropix has a sensational collection of material that was taken to feed an insatiable desire to see the band, their families, hangers on, and what they all did. Record launches, publicity events, holidays, flights in and out of the country, TV broadcasts, film work, births, deaths, and marriages: every event was photographed. With this sort of coverage, unsurprisingly, much material was not published, and it is this treasure trove that is showcased in this rare and exciting collection. Collectors of all stripes will cherish the removable reproductions of memorabilia.
23skidoo 15th May 2024		Dave Sim High Society	My copy's cover is off-white due to age. Pristine copies were white. I keep meaning to buy a replacement. If anyone has a cleaner copy to scan, please do!
JimEss SUBS 14th May 2024		Simon Lang All The Gods Of Eisernon	Covers added.
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 13th May 2024		Graham McCann Dad's Army. - The Story Of A Very British Comedy	Will add scans when time permits (sadly, it might not be for a few weeks yet).
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 13th May 2024		Alistair MacLean Circus	Will add scans when time permits (sadly, it might not be for a few weeks yet).
annaloog 12th May 2024		John Cleland Memoirs Of Fanny Hill	Signet no. W7867 puts this reprint no earlier than late 1977, however, later printings may have been issued with the same no.
23skidoo 12th May 2024		Leslie Waller Close Encounters Of The Third Kind	@JimEss I have found multiple websites identifying Waller as the author. I will submit a correction. Thanks!
JimEss SUBS 12th May 2024		Leslie Waller Close Encounters Of The Third Kind	When I added a book by Leslie Waller some months ago, I noticed his Wikipedia biography has this book as ghost-written by him.
23skidoo 12th May 2024		Leslie Waller Close Encounters Of The Third Kind	Recalling how Alan Dean Foster ghost-wrote the Star Wars A New Hope novelization for George Lucas I looked around to see if perhaps someone wrote this on behalf of Spielberg. I did see one website speculate it may have been Foster again, but otherwise I can find nothing. Of course if anyone is able to identify a writer who used Spielberg as a pen name, please correct accordingly.
23skidoo 12th May 2024		David L. Harrison The Boy With A Drum	@annaloog -Yeah, I noticed the UPC as soon as I clicked "Submit". I have submitted a correction for the Notes section.
annaloog 12th May 2024		David L. Harrison The Boy With A Drum	1980s-'90s printing, judging from the presence of the bar code.
ppint. 8th May 2024		Theodore Sturgeon A Touch Of Strange	almost all mmpbs follow this, not the full contents of the doubleday first edition & book club editions, until the hamlyn paperbacks uk p/b & the daw mmpb 1978 editions, which are complete.
ppint. 8th May 2024		Theodore Sturgeon A Touch Of Strange	publisher should^W has been corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group nor the ultimate corporate owner
ppint. 8th May 2024		Theodore Sturgeon A Touch Of Strange	contents: mr costello, hero (novelette) galaxy vol.7 #3, 12/1953; galaxy strato bre #14, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller the touch of your hand (novella) galaxy vol.6 #6, 9/1953; galaxy strato bre vol.3 #11, both: three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller affair with a green monkey (short story) venture vol.1 #3, 5/1957 a crime for llewellyn (ss) mike shayne mystery magazine 10/1957 it opens the sky (nlla) venture vol.1 #6, 9/1957, the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, with one b+w illustration by john giunta; venture atlas bre #9, 5/1964 a touch of strange (ss) f&sf vol.14 #1, 1/1958; venture atlas bre #20, 4/1965 the other celia (ss) galaxy vol.13 #5, 3/1957; galaxy strato bre #50, both: with one b+w illustration by diane dillon, leo dillon the pod in the barrier (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #5, 9/1957 with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood; galaxy strato bre #56, 11/1957 with one b+w illustration by wallace wood the girl had guts (ntte) venture vol.1 #1, 1/1957 with one b+w illustration by john giunta
ppint. 8th May 2024		Damon Knight In Deep	publisher should be corrected to "berkley medallion" as bookcat goes by the imprint, not the publishing group name, nor the ultimate corporate owner
ppint. 8th May 2024		Damon Knight In Deep	almost certainly scheduled and in production when macfadden books (and the larger macfadden-bartell corporation too?) were taken over and turned into manor books.
JimEss SUBS 8th May 2024		Ivan Howard The Weird Ones	Covers added.
JimEss SUBS 8th May 2024		Poul Anderson The Rebel Worlds	Covers added.
WPLives 7th May 2024		Bill Wolverton Southern Pacific, Volume 2; The Photography Of SP Employee Bill Wolverton	The San Francisco peninsula in the last days of Fairbanks Morse. The last stand for covered wagons - SP's FP7s in Amtrak service in the Bay Area and the story behind SP's Daylight diesels. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.
WPLives 7th May 2024		Bill Wolverton Southern Pacific, Volume 1; The Photography Of SP Employee Bill Wolverton	Vol 1: Roseville and Sacramento Valley 1971-75 Featuring the last F7s, By Bill Wolverton. Cloth with dust jacket, 11x8.5", 128 all color pages. 2018. "Former SP employee Bill Wolverton had the internal knowledge of where the vanishing F-units, Alcos, and other “goodies” were lurking and the photographic skills to record them in beautiful action sequences."
23skidoo 7th May 2024		Robert Silverberg The Planet Killers: Three Novels Of The Spaceways	I broke the format rule on subtitles so that this book would not be indexed as a new edition of the Planet Killers Ace Double release, as it is a new omnibus that happens to share the title..
ppint. 7th May 2024		Michael Moorcock The Warlord Of The Air	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.50 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 291 176 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1978 and both bear full first printing number line, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ppint. 7th May 2024		Michael Moorcock The Warlord Of The Air	shares the merkin-printed covers of the daw books, inc. mmpb first printing
ppint. 6th May 2024		Michael Moorcock The Citadel Of Forgotten Myths	elric series #1.5: #1: "elric of melniboné" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 6th May 2024		Michael Moorcock The Woods Of Arcady	the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #2: #1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 6th May 2024		Michael Moorcock The Whispering Swarm	the sanctuary of the white friars trilogy(?) #1: #1: "the whispering swarm" (2015), (this book) #2: "the woods of arcady" (2023), q.v. #3: "the wounds of albion" (nyp)
ppint. 6th May 2024		Dean R. Koontz The Long Sleep	popular library mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (signed) 445-00325-125 number-string on cover is not an (i)sbn cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th May 2024		Damon Knight In Deep	manor books mmpb first printing, not first merkin mmpb edition cover art by jack faragasso (unsigned, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 2/1973; near-identical manor books mmpb second printing differs: drops the mb logo from fly top corner of front cover, adds manor books in small black type vertically on two lines before the author's name cat# 75444 (i.e. drops the hyphen) indicia publishing history adds two lines: first printing. . . . august, 1972 second printing . . . . february, 1973

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