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Member	Book		Comment / Review
WPLives 12th Jul 2024		A. C. Kalmbach The Model Railroader 1st Issue	Yes, it is a book. It is a bound volume of the first issue of "The Model Railroader."
JimEss SUBS 12th Jul 2024		Robert Silverberg A Time Of Changes	Covers added.
annaloog ● 11th Jul 2024		Jack Vance The Five Gold Bands	The plot synopsis on the dust jacket flap is suspiciously reminiscent of that on the back cover of the DAW edition.
ppint. 10th Jul 2024		Jack Vance City Of The Chasch	daw books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed, uncredited) 2pp. b+w map of tschai (unsigned, uncredited: reprinted from the ace books mmpb edition) near-meaningless daw books collector no.339 cover price $1.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $1.75 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 160pp. including titles, indicia , b+w map etc. refer to indicia publishing history to see if the carcass of the copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, may 1979/123456789 and to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing, which drops the first two digits from the printing number line, was wholly merkin-printed, and bears cover price (? not as yet seen/seen reported: probably $1.75) some copies of this bear a lengthways oval white sticker printed in black stating $1.95 price in canada
ppint. 9th Jul 2024		Jack Vance The Pnume	planet of adventure or tschai tetralogy #4: #1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 9th Jul 2024		Jack Vance Servants Of The Wankh	planet of adventure #2: aka "wankh", aka "the wannek", qq.v. #1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing and links.
mister_tmg 9th Jul 2024		Eddie Shaw Date About All Those English Seventy-eights	You can buy a CD-ROM with scans of this book on eBay.
23skidoo 9th Jul 2024		William Parr Greswell The Growth And Administration Of The British Colonies, 1837-1897	Interesting aspect of this book is it's part of the "Victorian Era Series", yet was published while Queen Victoria was still alive. For some reason I thought the term "Victorian" didn't come into use until after she died.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Jack Vance Trullion: Alastor 2262	alastor cluster #1, a novel of the gaean reach: #1: ''trullion: alastor 2262'' (1973), (this book) #2: "marune: alastor 933" (1975), q.v. #3: "wyst: alastor 1716" (1978), q.v.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Jack Vance Trullion: Alastor 2262	alastor cluster #1: #1: "trullion: alastor 2262" (1973), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Jack Vance Wyst: Alastor 1716	alastor cluster #3: #1: "trullion: alastor 2262" (1973), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Jack Vance City Of The Chasch	the planet of adventure, aka "tschai", aka "tschai, the planet of adventure" tetralogy #1: #1: "city of the chasch" (this novel), aka "(the) chasch" (1986), q.v. #2: "servants of the wankh" (1969), q.v., aka "wankh" (1986), aka "the wannek" (2006), qq.v. #3: "the dirdir" (1969), q.v. #4: "the pnume" (1970), q.v. omnibus edition of the tetralogy: #O: "planet of adventure" (1985 uk), q.v.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Jack Vance The Dirdir	planet of adventure #3: #1: "city of the chasch" (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		John Wyndham The Outward Urge	contents: the space-station: A.D. 1994 (novelette) new worlds #70, 4/1958 as ''for all the night''; fantastic vol.7 #11, 11/1958 as ''the troons of space'' the moon: A.D. 2044 (ntte) new worlds #72, 6/1958 as ''idiot's delight''; fantastic vol.7 #12, 12/1958 as ''the troons of space - A.D. 2044'' mars: A.D. 2094 (ntte) new worlds #73, 7/1958 as ''the thin gnat-voices''; fantastic vol. 8 #1, 1/1959 as ''the troons of space - mars A.D. 2094'' venus: A.D. 2144 (ntte) new worlds #75, 9/1958 as ''space is a province of brazil''; fantastic vol. 8 #2, 2/1959 as ''the troops of space - venus A.D. 2144'' the emptiness of space: the asteroids A.D. 2194 (short story) new worlds #100, 11/1960; amazing vol.35 #1, 1/1961 ''the emptiness of space'' had the date added in amazing and ''the asteroids'' added for book publication
Llangollen 7th Jul 2024		Geoffrey Trease Black Banner Players	Someone in the Community owns this book. I want it. What to do? Lars
annaloog ● 7th Jul 2024		James Blish Star Trek 11	Additional images uploaded.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Wings Of Flame	arrow books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfair cover price £2.95 (overseas territories prices) 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Godbond	sea king trilogy #3: #1: "madbond" (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Mindbond	sea king trilogy #2: #1: "madbond" (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Godbond	macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £3.50, ($? australia, $? new zealand - scratched out) 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Mindbond	macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £3.50, ($? australia, $? new zealand - scratched out) 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Jul 2024		Larry Niven Fleet Of Worlds	known space collaborative spin-off series #1: by larry niven, edward m. lerner: 2#1: "fleet of worlds" (2007), (this novel) 2#2: "juggler of worlds" (2008), q.v. 2#3: "destroyer of worlds" (2009), q.v. 2#4: "betrayer of worlds" (2010), q.v. 2#5: "fate of worlds: return from the ringworld" (2012), q.v. see known space core collection for full series listing, and links: #C1: "neutron star" (1969), q.v.
ppint. 6th Jul 2024		Larry Niven Fleet Of Worlds	thomas doherty associates tor imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by stephen martiniere (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price $7.99 ($9.99 can(adian)) 320pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp; 1p. advertising between 2 blank pp.
MICKDOOM67 6th Jul 2024		L. R. Martin They Who Trespass	Cover image added.
MICKDOOM67 6th Jul 2024		James Gleeson Now It Can Be Told	Cover art by Stan Nicholson. Originally published by Elek Books in 1952.
MICKDOOM67 6th Jul 2024		Michael Cronin Pacific Pearl	Cover art by Ray Theobald. Mystery Reprint # 1 Reprint of Museum Press Ltd hardback 1954 edition with alternative sleeve art.
ppint. 5th Jul 2024		Erskine Childers The Riddle Of The Sands	grove atlantic ltd. atlantic books imprint b format p/b first printing crime classics series cover art by gradiate (unsigned line-drawn representation of a chart detail, credited on back cover) cover price £7.99 368pp. including twenty unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), 8 pp. four b+w maps etc, 25 end pp: 1 p. blank, 15pp. case notes (nf) professor robert giddings, 9 blank pp.
ppint. 4th Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Madbond	sea king trilogy #1: #1: "madbond" (1987), this novel #2: "mindbond" (1987), q.v. #3: "godbond" (1988), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #O: "sea king trilogy" (2018), q.v.
ppint. 4th Jul 2024		Robert Foster A Guide To Middle Earth	mirage press limited edition 1250 unnumbered tp/b 1971 card-covered edition of the h/cvr sewn signatures anthem series cover (d-j) art by tim kirk (signed, credited on d-j back flap) cover(d-j) price $3.75 320pp. (i-) xiii titles, introduction, concordance° etc, 1 blank p, 13 end pp: 1p. statement of limitation, statement of printing & publication of trade p/b bind-up, blank pp; sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between card covers ° - identifies and correlates page references in the ballantine mmpb and the houghton miflin revised h/cvr merkin editions of the three separately-published volumes
ppint. 4th Jul 2024		Robert Foster A Guide To Middle Earth	mirage press limited edition 1500 numbered h/cvrs published in two batches of 750, 4 & 11/1971 voyager series cover (d-j) art by tim kirk (signed, credited on d-j back flap) cover(d-j) price $6.95 320pp. (i-) xiii titles, introduction, concordance° etc, 1 blank p, 13 end pp: 1p. statement of limitation, limited edition copy number, statement of printing & publication of trade p/b bind-up, six blank pp; sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, title , author & publisher blocked in gold on spine ° - identifies and correlates page references in the ballantine mmpb and the houghton miflin revised h/cvr merkin editions of the three separately-published volumes

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