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Member	Book		Comment / Review
MICKDOOM67 14th Aug 2024		Charles Packman Steel Helmet	Back cover image added.
MICKDOOM67 14th Aug 2024		Barton Clark Raiding Column	Rear cover image added.
MICKDOOM67 14th Aug 2024		Lee Marks Japaneses Bushido	Cover art by Robert A. Osborne. Rear cover image added.
MICKDOOM67 14th Aug 2024		David Horsley The Time Of The Locust	Rear cover image added. Cover art by R.A. Osborne.
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip The Moon And The Face	kyreol duology #2: #1: "moon-flash" (1984), q.v.
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip The Moon And The Face	barcode number truncated by too-small field: 071831 00275 09206 only the last element of which identifies the book being its publisher's catalogue number for it.
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip The Moon And The Face	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition argo imprint h/cvr first edition published by atheneum books (1985), q.v. cover art by kinuko y. craft (signed, uncredited) cover price ($3.95 canada) • $2.95 u.s. 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip Moon-Flash	kyreol duology #1: ya (young adult) sf series: #1: "moon-flash" (1984), (this novel) #2: " the moon and the face" (1985), q.v.
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip Moon-Flash	barcode number truncated by too-small field: 071831 00275 08457 only the last element of which identifies the book being its publisher's catalogue number for it.
ppint. 14th Aug 2024		Patricia A. McKillip Moon-Flash	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition argo imprint h/cvr first edition published by atheneum books (1984), q.v. cover art by kinuko y. craft (signed, uncredited) b+w interior illustration unsigned, uncredited cover price ($3.25 canada) • $2.75 u.s. 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepit	timepiece series #3: #1: ''timepiece'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links. (seen stated to've been intended to be a pentalogy, but no source for this statement was given)
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepit	the d-j bears dennis dobson's full in-print science fiction catalogue°, as was usual: brian ball's "timepiece" is listed, but not "timepivot" - and i do not recall ever seeing a dennis dobson edition of the second novel in this series. ° - listed by author/editor and title only, no (i)sbn or cover price
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepit	dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned b+w art, credited for design on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price c. £1.75 (check) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepiece	the statement - or claim - that the ballantine mmpb is/was an original is (and was) at least debatable.
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepiece	the three-digit last element of the number string stated to be the american sbn is the cover price in cents; it is not in fact part of the book's sbn, as the standard book number is/was defined as a nine digit number, the first element of which identifies the publisher, the second element identified the book title in that publisher's then-current catalogue (which allows for eventual re-used of any particular sbn), and the final digit is the checksum digit calculated from the first eight digits allowing errors to be detected (and, if this was the most common error, that of the accidental swapping of two adjacent digits, allowing this to be identified and corrected by a human being or, later, a computer program routine). possibly because of the way the failing rival - and incompatible - abn (american book number) system, which does not seem ever to have made use of a checksum digit, had been used, different merkin mmpb publishers committed a variety of more(-or-less) catastrophically non-compliant variations when they began to adopt the sbn (standard book number) system, up to and including creating fake, and usually - almost inevitably - non-checksum-digit-system-compliant - "isbn"s. the standard book number system was later extended to become the international standard book number system by prepending (or deeming to have been prepended) the digit zero, 0, to all current sbn system numbers; being arithmetically equivalent to these isbn ("isbn10" on bookcat) numbers, 9-digit sbn system numbers may be treated identically by number-crunchers human, mechanical, electrical and electronic. the much later isbn13 system is not backwards-compatible with the sbn/isbn10 system.
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepiece	intext publishing group ballantine books imprint mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by mort engel (unsigned, credited as by mort engle; full first name seems to've been morton) cat# 01903 sbn 345-01903-2 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 first american edition: april, 1970 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 first american edition: april, 1970
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepivot	timepiece series #2: #1: ''timepiece'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links. (seen stated to've been intended to be a pentalogy, but no source for this statement was given)
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepivot	intext publishing group ballantine books imprint mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by tom adams (unsigned, credited) cover price 95¢ 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 first printing: december, 1970
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Jean Boesselier The Wisdom Of The Buddha	the subtitle is^W wrong and should^W has been deleted: it appears to be a thames & hudson publishing series; yr hmbl srppnt. is not excessively familiar with thames & hudson's religious books in general.
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Jean Boesselier The Wisdom Of The Buddha	thames & hudson small format trade p/b first printing, first english language edition reprinted 1995, reprinted 2002 thames & hudson new horizons series cover art unsigned, uncredited (sources given in illustrations index) cover price £7.95 192pp. including table-of-contents (chapters), titles, heavy glossy paper, many colour illustrations; 12 end pp: 2pp. a conversation with the dalai lama, 1p. each glossary, chronology, bibliography; 3½pp. illustrations index with sources; 1½pp. index, 1p. credits & acknowledgements, 1p. indicia the book format is about half an inch/one centimetre wider than a standard a-format uk p/b presumed original title in the french language not given in titles nor indicia
ppint. 13th Aug 2024		Fritz Leiber The Second Book Of Fritz Leiber	contents: the lion and the lamb (novelette) astounding vol. xxxxvi #1, 9/1950; the cover story, art and five b+w illustrations by walt miller the mighty tides (nf) science digest 4/1961 as "what makes the mighty tides?" trapped in the sea of stars (ss) original to this collection (a fafhrd & the gray mouser story); collected in "swords & ice magic" fritz leiber (1977 & ff.) fafhrd and me (nf) amra 10/1963 the belsen express (ss) original here ingmar bergman: fantasy novelist (nf) ? 9/1974 scream wolf (ss) mike shane mystery magazine 2/1961 those wild alien words: II (nf) original here the mechanical bride (play) in "science fiction thinking machines" ed. groff conklin (1954) through hyperspace with brown jenkin (nf) shangri-l'affaires 9/1963, revised 1975 a defence of werewolves (nf) the arkham sampler spring/1948
23skidoo 12th Aug 2024		Charlie Higson On His Majesty's Secret Service	To update my comment from June, Sherwood's book is available in Canada, but OHisMSS is still unavailable officially unless one orders UK imports via Amazon Marketplace. A search of Amazon shows Amazon Canada carrying (not a third party vendor) a 2017 novel of the same title by Eddie Edwards. Could that be why? That there's a novel of the same title already in circulation?
23skidoo 12th Aug 2024		Kingsley Amis Colonel Sun	No one has uploaded the cover art for this edition yet. However I guess it must have been a popular painting as it was used again a couple years later as the cover of this sci-fi novel!
23skidoo 12th Aug 2024		Brian N. Ball Timepivot	Cover art is the same as that used for the first UK edition of the James Bond novel, Colonel Sun! The cover hasn't been scanned in yet as of the time of this post, but you can see it here
ppint. 12th Aug 2024		Ward Moore Caduceus Wild	pinnacle books mmpb first printing, first edition pinnacle/ futorian science fiction series text revised from that of the serialised novel published in 1959 cover art by howard darden (signed darden(? - "squiggle", really), credited) cover price $1.75 278pp. (check) including unnumbered/unpaginated titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Aug 2024		Robert Silverberg Triax	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 12th Aug 2024		Robert Silverberg Triax	contents: molly zero (novella) keith roberts (later extended by keith into a fine novel, victor gollancz (1985) q.v.) if i forget thee... (nlla) james (e.) gunn (later included in his "the dreamers" (1981) retitled "the volunteer") freitzke's turn (nlla) jack vance (a miro hetzel story, the second-published) (the two novellas later collected and published as "galactic effectuator" (1980 & ff.), q.v.
ppint. 12th Aug 2024		Robert Silverberg Triax	wm. collins and sons fontana imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition original anthology of three novellas with introduction by robert silverberg cover art by justin todd (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 85p, 93½p rep. of ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.95 new zealand, $2.75 canafa 192pp. (check) including 6pp. titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 11th Aug 2024		Robert Silverberg Epoch	author field should^W has been varied to "editor" and the co-author field to co-editor
ppint. 11th Aug 2024		Robert Silverberg Epoch	contents: introduction (nf) the editors arm (novella) larry niven (known space setting, a gil the arm/gil hamilton story) angel of truth (novelette) gordon eklund mazes (short story) ursula k. le guin for all poor folks at picketwire (ss) r. a. lafferty growing up in edge city (ss) frederik pohl durance (ss) ward moore the ghost of a model t (ss) clifford d. simak planet story (ss) kate wilhelm graduation day (ss) w. macfarlane timetipping (ss) jack dann encounter with a carnivore (ss) joseph green lady sunshine and the magoon of beatus (nlla) alexei panshin, cory panshin "...for a single yesterday" (ntte) george r. r. martin bloodstream (ss) lou fisher existence (ss) joanna russ interface (nlla) a. a. attanasio blooded on arachne (ntte) michael bishop (first glaktik komm setting/universe/timeline/reality story) leviticus: in the ark (ss) barry n. malzberg cambridge, 1:58 a.m. (ss) gregory benford run from the fire (ntte) harry harrison the aperture moment: waiting for the universe to begin (ss) brian w. aldiss but without orifices (ss) brian w. aldiss aimez-vous holman hunt? (ss) brian w. aldiss nightbeat (ss) neal barrett, jr. uneasy chrysalids, our memories (ss) john shirley the dogtown tourist agency (nlla) jack vance (the first miro hetzel story)

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