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ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Calling Dr. Patchwork	odd jobs series listing completed, all links to & fro written and tested ok.
ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Brainz, Inc.	odd jobs series #4: #1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Big Bang	odd jobs series #3: #1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Hail Hibbler	odd jobs series #2: #1: "calling dr. patchwork" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Calling Dr. Patchwork	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.
dr.zoze 9th Sep 2024		François Pouqueville Ταξίδι Στο Μοριά	ήταν; φιλέλληνας, γιατί εμένα μου κάνει για φιλοαλβανός γιατί όπως και ο Βύρων τον Αλή Πασά υμνούν στα γραφτά τους
ppint. 9th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Brainz, Inc.	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
JimEss SUBS 9th Sep 2024		Judith Merril Daughters Of Earth	Back cover added.
JimEss SUBS 9th Sep 2024		J. Hunter Holly The Running Man	Back cover added.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Death Cell	jack summer series listing completed, all links to & fro written and tested ok.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Ghost Breaker	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Death Cell	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Death Cell	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
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Plunder	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Galaxy Jane	jack summer #4: #1: "death cell" (1971), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Galaxy Jane	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Suicide, Inc.	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart Hellquad	"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. . .
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart The Prisoner Of Blackwood Castle	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart The Prisoner Of Blackwood Castle	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.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart The Curse Of The Obelisk	harry challenge #2: #1: "the prisoner of blackwood castle" (1984), q.v.
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart The Curse Of The Obelisk	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.
23skidoo 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart When The Waker Sleeps	Back cover scan added
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Gene Wolfe The Island Of Doctor Death And Other Stories And Other Stories	contents: the island of doctor death and other stories (short story) in "orbit 7" ed. damon knight (1970) ° alien stones (novelette) in "orbit 11" ed. damon knight (1972) la befana (ss) galaxy vol.33 #4, 1-2/1973; galaxy tandem bre #5 the hero as werwolf (ss) in "the new improved sun" ed. thomas m. disch (1975) three fingers (ss) in "new constellations" eds. thomas m. disch, charles naylor (1976) the death of dr. island (novella) in "universe 3" ed. terry carr (1973) ° feather tigers (ss) edge #5/6, autumn-winter/1973 hour of trust (ntte) in "bad moon rising" ed. thomas m. disch (1973) tracking song (nlla) in "in the wake of man" ed. (anonymous, probably roger elwood†) (1975) the toy theatre (ss) in "orbit 9" ed. damon knight (1971) as "the toy theater" the doctor of death island (nlla) in "immortal" ed. jack dann (1978) ° "cues (ss) in "the far side of time" ed. roger elwood (1974) (which, as in arrow books p/b t-o-c, lists this without the initial ") the eyeflash miracles (nlla) in "future power" eds. jack dann, gardner dozois (1976) seven american nights (nlla) in "orbit 20" ed. damon knight (1978) ° - the three "archipelago" series novellas; there is an archipelago short story, "death of the island doctor" in the introduction of the limited edition h/cvr collection, "the wolfe archipelago" gene wolfe (1988) † - the original anthology copyright 1975 by roger elwood
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Gene Wolfe The Island Of Doctor Death And Other Stories And Other Stories	london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books first printing, first uk edition reprint collection of five novellas, two novelettes and seven short stories cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; in "ultraterranium" bruce pennington (1991/2), q.v.) cover price £1.95 (check for overseas territories prices) 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Sep 2024		Gene Wolfe The Island Of Doctor Death And Other Stories And Other Stories	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing cover art, isbn etc. canadian covers bear statement printed in canada on back, on front on small white maple leaf icon reprint collection of five novellas, two novelettes and seven short stories cover art by don maitz (signed on back cover, uncredited) cover price $3.25 canadian-printed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, end pp. refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish between the printings no priority established nor liable to be, both state first pocket books printing june, 1980 and both bear full first printing number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
23skidoo 8th Sep 2024		Ron Goulart What's Become Of Screwloose? And Other Inquiries	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.
annaloog 7th Sep 2024		Bill Strutton Doctor Who And The Zarbi	That was my take also ... I have moved the images of several different (mostly undated) printings of the Signet Bored Of The Rings to separate entries once I found enough info. to distinguish them.
ppint. 7th Sep 2024		J. G. Ballard Vermilion Sands	orion books phoenix imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first uk b-format p/b edition collection of the two novelettes and seven short stories set in vermilion sands, preface by the author cover art by rene magritte (detail from "la meditation* (1936) credited on back cover) cover price £4.99 208pp. including titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 7th Sep 2024		J. G. Ballard Vermilion Sands	barcode number truncated by too-small field in full: 978046002277400295

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