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MICKDOOM67 22nd Aug 2024		D'Arcy Niland The Shiralee	Cover art by 'CY Webb' (Cyrus Webb) - Reginald Heade.
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	from 1958 through c. 1965-8, the new american library signet books mmpb was distributed in canada, mostly with canadian-printed carcases sharing merkin-printed covers of the near-identical more-or-less simultaneous merkin mmpb main printings. i do not know if the 1968 bantam mmpb edition, which saw at least four printings, or the 1974 ballantine books mmpb, which saw at least thirty-seven printings, saw distribution north of the parallel.
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik cover price $5.95 276pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, ended pp. advertising
JimEss SUBS 22nd Aug 2024		Larry Niven The Magic Goes Away	Covers added.
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	both bear the sbn, 330 10570 1, on the back cover, spine & in the indicia
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	pan books p/b near-identical third and fourth printings, both 1969°, with new cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaiaa as-yet unattributed cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia publishing history adds line: 3rd printing 1969 and then adds line: 4th printing 1969 ° - no month of publication given in either
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	pan books first printing, apparently first uk p/b edition, not first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6, 45c south africa, 6/- (60c) australia, 4/6 new zealand so this edition/printing should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea near-identical pan books p/b second printing (1967) retains cat#, cover art, uk cover price, differs: adds statement of second printing to indicia publishing history
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute Most Secret	pan books first printing, apparently first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6, australia 6/- so this edition/printing should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute On The Beach	william heinemann h/cvr first printing , first edition cover (d-j) art by john rowland (signed, credited for wrapper design on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 15/- 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute No Highway	classic novel of warning: what can go catastrophically wrong when industrial innovation is put into public service without adequate forethought or testing. six years after the publication of "no highway" (1948), the immensely successful - to that point - first ever jet airliner, the de havilland comet, suffered several catastrophic failures due to the "metal fatigue" phenomenon advanced as a potential major hazard by nevil shute in this novel - under his fuller name, nevil shute norway, he had worked at both de havilland and at vickers aircraft division, as well as having set up and running his own successful aircraft design, construction &c. company, airspeed ltd., whose "ambassador" twin engined civil aeroplane was produced for the r.a.f. and others as the successful advanced training & communications "airspeed oxford".
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	the 1952 (& other 1950s (?)) printing bears a monochrome d-j printed mainly in grey (titles in white, i.e. left unprinted), d-j art is a picture of an aircraft carrier in heavy seas; uniform series design: series name, "the novels of", printed in black above author's name, then horizontal white line, then d-j art, then title. bound with endpapers between light blue cloth-covered boards. the 1960 through 1968 (at least) heinemann printings bear a full colour d-j, art by w. francis phillipps - william francis phillipps, probably most often credited as w. f. phillipps.
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik of a ditched bristol beaufort, crew being rescued by the crew of a small yacht (? - one mast, two sails, triangular forward sail, main sail on a boom and gaff(?) extending the mast diagonally upward; tiller manned, no rudder visible at raked stern) cover price $4.95 224pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
23skidoo 21st Aug 2024		Donald Moffitt Diamonds Are For Dying	According to Wikipedia (and other sources such as Locus magazine), Paul Kenyon is pseud. for Donald Moffitt. I'll be submitting a correction request.
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	pan books first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, in a broad band across lower third of front cover, top of woman's head/hair breaks above top line of this band cover price 3/6 printed in black on the top right hand corner of the cover art 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising at least some of the first, and almost certainly of the second and third printings finished with no 3/6 uk price on front cover, possibly c. 4/- australian price in black on back cover though this price may've been varied on later copies of the first (or second) printings, and was 6/- on the third printing near-identical second printing (1966) (also seen reported as 1965) retains cat# X380 cover art cover price 3/6 near-identical third printing (1967) retains cat# X380 cover art cover price 3/6
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	the first edition h/cvr's publication date may've been preceded by the official distribution to air raid precautions officers to familiarise them with the possible and probable effects of major aerial bombing, including public health risks, such as subsequent explosions due to broken (town gas) gas mains and domestic pipes, &c., and to diseases resulting from contaminated water supplies.
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	william heinemann h/cvr first printing , first edition cover (d-j) art none: typographical black on white (unprinted) field with red border decorated with 22 small black five-pointed stars cover (d-j) price 4/6 (on d-j spine, on third impression of first edition, d-j else as that of the copies for the a.r.p. (i've not compared the d-j flaps) 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards indicia publishing history of near-identical second printing states on two lines: first published, february 1939 reprinted, february 1939
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Nevil Shute What Happened To The Corbetts	william heinemann limited edition h/cvr° whose distribution may have preceded the william heinemann first edition ° - it was almost certainly a part of the first edition; but n.b. i have not compared the two cover (d-j) art none: typographical black on white (unprinted) field with red border decorated with 22 small black five-pointed stars cover (d-j) price none charged 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 20th Aug 2024		Russell Braddon The Year Of The Angry Rabbit	not released as a category sf p/b by pan, though set in a near-future ecological disaster.
ppint. 20th Aug 2024		John Burke Privilege	not released as a category sf p/b by pan, though a political satire set in a near future dystopic britain
South Shields Football Club 20th Aug 2024		Peter O'Donnell Dragon's Claw	Modesty Blaise Dragon's Claw by the famous writer Peter O'Donnell in 1978 is the great book. Terry Christie.
South Shields Football Club 20th Aug 2024		Leslie Charteris Saint Errant	The Saint Roger Moore as Simon Templar with The Halo Over His Head & The Stickman are the great icon. Terry Christie.
South Shields Football Club 20th Aug 2024		Leslie Charteris The Saint Goes West	Leslie Charteris,The famous author of The Saint with Roger Moore as Simon Templar from 1962-69 for ATV-ITC Shows. Terry.
ppint. 20th Aug 2024		John Burke Privilege	film starring jean shrimpton and paul jones - the latter's first film after leaving manfred mann, where he'd been the lead singer on such successful singles as "5, 4, 3, 2, 1", "doo wah diddy diddy", "come tomorrow", "if you gotta go, go now", "there's no living without your loving", and "pretty flamingo", q.v. paul jones sings "i've been a bad, bad boy", q.v. & "free me"† as steven shorter, a svengali of a pop star manipulated by politicians and his handlers colluding to distract the public from their machinations, who is inspired to question the morality of the part he is playing by jean shrimpton's character in this film. † - aka "privilege (set me free)" when recorded by patti smith - much later, in 1978
ppint. 20th Aug 2024		John Burke Privilege	pan books p/b edition first printing, first edition sfaik novelisation from an original screenplay by norman bogner, from the original story by johnny speight cover art unsigned, uncredited, incorporating b+w photo from the colour film or press/pr photo cover price 3/6 (?overseas territories prices?) 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
JimEss SUBS 20th Aug 2024		Dean McLaughlin Dome World	Back cover added.
JimEss SUBS 20th Aug 2024		J. Hunter Holly The Mind Traders	Back cover added.
ppint. 19th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld	berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing°, not first mmpb edition cover art by carl lundgren (signed with his name & year in line-drawn box cover price ($2.75 canada) $2.50 u.s. 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - possibly two simultaneous near-identical printings sharing merkin-printed covers, one with canadian-printed carcase; but i've no record of having seen such. it'd've not've been stated second printing, but've been deemed to've been the second printing when the next printing was prepared. 3/1986 berkley mmpb near-identical third printing retains cover art by carl lundgren cat# 09452 isbn 0-425-09452-9 cover price ($3.75? check) canada) $2.95 u.s.
ppint. 19th Aug 2024		Robert A. Heinlein The Door Into Summer	new american library signet books imprint mmpb near simultaneous° canadian third and undated merkin sixth printings, sharing re-revised cover design of second and canadian first printings: much larger titles, author, latter vertically upward alongside spine, all on white field; adds "by the author of stranger in a strange land" to front cover puff line, drops "complete and unabridged" cover art by paul lehr (reduced cropped from first mmpb printing where signature is visible, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. 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, canadian states third printing, december, 1968; merkin states sixth printing, no date (other than the original copyright date) ° - near simultaneous, because of sharing the merkin-printed covers
ppint. 19th Aug 2024		Robert A. Heinlein The Door Into Summer	new american library signet books imprint mmpb near simultaneous° merkin third and canadian second printings, and near-identical undated° merkin fourth printing, sharing revised cover design of second and canadian first printings: much larger titles, author, latter in white vertically upward alongside spine, all on purple field cover art by paul lehr (reduced cropped from first mmpb printing where signature is visible, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. 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 may, 1964, canadian states second printing, merkin states third printing, preceding the date; also to distinguish from the near-identical first canadian and first, third, and fourth merkin printings ° - undated (c. 10/1966 by publication date of latest new tile advertised on p. 160) near-identical merkin fourth printing states fourth printing, elsewise identical save for end p. advertising
ppint. 19th Aug 2024		Robert A. Heinlein The Door Into Summer	new american library signet books imprint mmpb simultaneous second and canadian first printings, sharing revised cover design: much larger titles, author, latter in white vertically upward alongside spine, all on purple field cover art by paul lehr (reduced cropped from first mmpb printing where signature is visible, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. 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 march, 1964, canadian states first printing, merkin states second printing, preceding the date; also to distinguish from the near-identical second canadian and third merkin printings

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