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Member	Book		Comment / Review
ppint. 9th Aug 2024		Ramsey Campbell The Influence	only known address i've been able to find: 26 york road, twickenham, london; a limited liability company incorporated 1985, apparently dissolved before december 1999.
23skidoo 7th Aug 2024		Various Authors The Story Of Evangelina Cisneros	Considering how newspapers worked in these days, along with Hearst "stage-crafting" a lot of this in order to sell papers (though the events are not disputed), odds are good that Cisnero's portion of the book were likely written by one of his professionals (if not Decker himself). I haven't tracked down if anyone else other than Cisnero has been identified as the writer.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Ramsey Campbell The Influence	the sheridan book company would not appear to possess an address, nor a distributor - with or without an address - but this isn't a criminally illegal edition as the printer's name and sufficient address is given on the indicia page for the relevant authorities to make contact: cox & wyman ltd, reading, berkshire
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Ramsey Campbell The Influence	the sheridan book company first printing, not first uk p/b edition logo just above the base of the spine is a black, seriffed s above a black squiggle, in a white rectangle: this is repeated nowhere else on or in this edition. title page bears "the sheridan book company" above a horizontally stretched iteration of the like squiggle dedication: for catherine and j. k. potter who lit up more of the dark for me "the last dream tells the truth. . ." guilda kent cover art unsigned, uncredited from merged photographs split vertically of woman's face & head, skull cover price £4.99, $10.95 aus(tralia) 304pp. including six unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, 2 blank end pp.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		J. K. Rowling Career Of Evil	cormoran strike #3: private eye crime and detection mysteries series #1: "the cuckoo's calling" (2013), q.v. (eventually for series listing, and links).
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		J. K. Rowling Career Of Evil	sphere (not "sphere books") is stated to be: an imprint of little brown books group, carmelite house, 50 victoria embankment, london ec4y 0dz an hachette uk company.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		J. K. Rowling Career Of Evil	hachette uk little brown books group sphere imprint b-format p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition preceded by the sphere imprint h/cvr first printing (2015) dedication: to séan and matthew harris, do whatever you like with this dedication, but don't --- don't --- use it on your eyebrows cover art from photograph by nico taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover but © is by the publisher) cover price £7.99 592pp. including 8 unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, 12 end pp: 7pp. acknowledgements including 2pp. introduction to these, 1 blank p, 1p. about the - fictional - author, 3pp. advertising
MICKDOOM67 7th Aug 2024		Will Oursler City Limits	Cover art by William Rose. Nick Marino was a pseudonym used by Will Oursler who then had Richard Deming finish the novels outline story (admins contacted) Originally published in the US in 1958 by Pyramid Books # G315 with same title and cover art.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Michael Moorcock The Jewel In The Skull	Review - well, what else could one do with dorian hawkmoon's brain ?° ° - see back cover blurb... gloom, doom and the depths of despondency doing duty providing a typically moorcockian dark flavour to this stage in the central character's career towards his eventual but certain early death - or worse(!) - michael moorcock pretty much defined this style or school of sword'n'sorcery, not as a tame copy of robert e. howard's simple strongarm swordsman, but one ever at risk of being cheated or downright double-crossed by his temporary employers, even - perhaps especially (?) - if they gain very nearly all they hire his swords to win. moorcock also introduced the idea of a constant struggle between opposing forces aimed at or personifying the dedication to the imposition of unalterable law, implacable and cruel in the name of justice - and the drive towards the ultimate chaos of purest entropy, equally unlovable and unlivable-with by humanity, a discord driving events as powerful as - or totally replacing - the hitherto traditional fantasy dichotomy of good and evil. - and he **loathed & hated tolkien's "the lord of the rings**" - ignore the idiotic lancer books cover blurb. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Frank Herbert The Dragon In The Sea	distinguish between this true first edition and the near-identical doubleday science fiction book club h/cvr (6/1956) first (and any subsequent) printing by their lack of the indicia statement "first edition".
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Frank Herbert The Dragon In The Sea	doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition, so stated in the indicia cover (d-j) art by mel hunter (signed, should be credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price $2.95 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards cover d-j price in canada $3.50 but i do not know if this was a separately-printed d-j or no.
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Frank Herbert The Dragon In The Sea	the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale only to members of the science fiction book club by post, on a near inertia sales subscription basis (or from time-to-time as a cheap/free book (pay only for p+p) in inducement to join the book club) cover (d-j) price 5/6 (including postage & packing iirc) cover (d-j) art design by c. w. bacon 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Frank Herbert The Dragon In The Sea	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black and magenta on "gollancz yellow" field with two narrow bands of decoration composed of printers' wibbles between narrow horizontal lines all in black cover (d-j) price 13/6 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
JimEss SUBS 6th Aug 2024		Harlan Ellison Ellison Wonderland	Covers added.
23skidoo 5th Aug 2024		[no Editor Listed] Smart Girl 1964	I tried to find out on google if this was a tie-in with a magazine or something, but had no luck. Anyone know?
23skidoo 5th Aug 2024		Paula K. Manzanero Where Is Area 51?	At first I thought this was a parody or spoof like some of the recent adult-oriented Ladybird Books, or even a post-modern one aimed at adults like Little Golden Books has done a couple of (i.e. adapting The Office), but this appears to be a legit kid's book.
23skidoo 5th Aug 2024		Susannah Leigh Journey To The Lost Temple	@annaloog - He's credited on the title page. This book is not viable without the illustrations as it is a visual puzzle book, making Blackman a co-author. I just submitted a Star Wars book for children where the illustrations are also key (though less to understanding the book as Blackman's are to this one) as I was instructed to do so if the illustrations are a key part of the book.
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Fredric Brown Angels And Spaceships	contents: © date of 1954 = original publication in this collection sfaik introduction (nf) fredric brown 1954 pattern (short story) 1954 placet is a crazy place (ss) asf vol. xxxvii #3, 5/1946, two b+w illustrations by swenson; asf atlas bre vol. v #6, 9/1946 answer (ss) 1954 etaoin shrdlu (ss) unknown vol. v #5, 2/1942, with two b+w illustrations by paul orban preposterous (ss) 1954 armageddon (ss) unknown vol. v #2, 8/1941, one b+w illustration by ed cartier; argosy uk 5/1956 politeness (ss) 1954, reprinted in playboy 3/1957 the waveries (ss) asf vol. xxxiv #5, 1/1945, two b+w illustrations by paul orban; argosy uk 4/1954 reconciliation (ss) 1954 the hat trick (ss) as by "felix graham" unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, two b+w illustrations by ed cartier search (ss) 1954 letter to a phoenix (ss) asf vol. xxxxiii #6, 8/1949, one b+w illustration by paul orban daisies (ss) 1954 the angelic angleworm (novelette) unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, four b+w illustrations by m. isip sentence (ss) 1954 the yehudi principle (ss) asf vol.33 #3, 5/1944, two b+w illustrations by newton h. alfred solipsist (ss) 1954
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Fredric Brown Angels And Spaceships	victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first uk edition collection of sixteen short stories (seven reprints) and a novelette, nf introduction by the author cover (d-j) art none, typographical with some limited horizontal separators from compositors' type cover (d-j) price 10/6 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		James H. Schmitz The Witches Of Karres	cover art collected in "in the garden of unearthly delights" josh kirby (1991 & ff.), q.v.
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		James Blish They Shall Have Stars	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one, geoffrey faber) first printing, first edition cover d-j art by peter curl (signed curl) (of the bridge of the first part, in black with spot yellow & red) cover d-j price 12/6 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards distinguish from 1965 second printing by reference to the indicia publishing history which adds "second impression mcmlxv" cover (d-j) price 18/-
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Leo P. Kelley Mindmix	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk or first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price c. £1.80 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
annaloog 5th Aug 2024		Susannah Leigh Journey To The Lost Temple	JMO, I seriously doubt that an illustrator is the same as an author (a graphic novel may be an exception). At any rate, John Blackman's name does not appear on the cover.
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Michael Moorcock The Runestaff	the (history of the) runestaff tetralogy #4: #1: ''the jewel in the skull'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Lin Carter The Man Who Loved Mars	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by paul lehr (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from fawcett gold medal mmpb first edition) cover (d-j) price £1.60 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Avram Davidson Mutiny In Space	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price £1.60 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Avram Davidson Or All The Seas With Oysters	printed & made for white lion publishers by hendington ltd., deadbrook lane, aldershot hants. (posted because i don't recall this printer's name from the seventies - or any other time; and because it's possible they may've been more closely connected with the publisher aside of simply having printed & bound (? some of?) the books they published. tbi.)
WPLives 4th Aug 2024		Henry E. Bender Jr. Southern Pacific Lines Standard Design Depots	History and design of standard SP depot structures.
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Avram Davidson Or All The Seas With Oysters	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition reprint collection of seventeen short stories and a novelette° cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited (looks like the work of mal dean to me, but this is not an attribution) cover (d-j) price £2.95 176pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents° etc, bound with endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards ° - table-of-contents omits the titles of two short stories, following that of the berkley medallion mmpb first edition
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Frank Herbert Dune	random house group uk (or random penguin by now?) hachette group orion books gollancz imprint h/cvr first printing of this edition, but not first uk h/cvr nor first victor gollancz h/cvr edition cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, re-used from "the prophet of dune" part 3 (of 5) asf vol. lxxv #1, 3/1965, where it is credited) cover price £7.99 616pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possible end p.; perfectbound (iirc) onto flexible backing strip with endpapers between laminated boards, no dust-jacket

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