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Member	Book		Comment / Review
ppint. 4th Jul 2024		Charles Williams The Concrete Flamingo	aka and originally "all the way" dell mmpb (1958), q.v.
ppint. 4th Jul 2024		Charles Williams Dead Calm	first published by viking (h/cvr 1963) so first publication year is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1963
JimEss SUBS 3rd Jul 2024		Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End	Covers added.
ppint. 3rd Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Madbond	macdonald & co. (publishers) futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia, $12.99 new zealand 216pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia etc, 5 end pp: 3pp. glossary, 1p. mail-order data, 1p. advertisement for interzone
ppint. 3rd Jul 2024		Nancy Springer Chains Of Gold	macdonald & co. futura publications p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition first uk publication in h/cvr by macdonald & co. (publishers) (1987), q.v. cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly geoff taylor, on stylistic grounds; *not* "an attribution") cover price £2.95, $9.95 australia, $14.99 new zealand 240pp. including four unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Jul 2024		Duncan Kyle Terror's Cradle	fontana/collins p/b seventh impression so stated first published in h/cvr by collins (1975), q.v. first published in fontana p/b edition 1976 dedication: this one for robert with my thanks cover art by peter elson (signed with his pe in a line-drawn box, uncredited) cover price £1.95 224pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising © 1974 robert crew ltd.
ppint. 3rd Jul 2024		Robert Tralins The Cosmozoids	tower books mmpb simultaneous first printings, stated second printing as accounting included the belmont mmpb first edition, tower publications having taken over belmont publications a big t science fiction cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly by jack faragasso?) cover price 60¢ 144pp. 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 (p) 1966, 1969
ppint. 3rd Jul 2024		Gerald Griffin The Collegians	grove atlantic ltd. atlantic books imprint b format p/b first printing crime classics series cover art by sean freeman (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £7.99 496pp. including ten unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 18 end pp: 11pp. case notes (nf) professor robert giddings, 7 blank pp.
23skidoo 2nd Jul 2024		J. E. Johnson Wing Leader	@annaloog.Thanks for the idea. It wouldn't have worked for this book though as the dust jacket was basically newsprint - any liquid would have gone through. Some stories use post-it notes for pricing or put in plastic but this store doesn't cater to collectors, sadly.
ppint. 2nd Jul 2024		Donna Leon Venezianisches Finale	english title is^W was slightly wrong and should^W has been corrected to "death at la fenice"
ppint. 2nd Jul 2024		Donna Leon Fatal Remedies	commissario brunetti series #8
ppint. 2nd Jul 2024		Donna Leon Fatal Remedies	random house group ltd. arrow books first printing, first uk p/b edition check undated, unexplained printing number on third line in indicia: highest i've seen is 10 dedication: for william douglas cover art photographic credited to getty images cover price £6.99 320pp. including ten unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 7 end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2024		Edward Countryman The American Revolution	the penguin group penguin books imprint b format p/b first printing, not penguin books first p/b edition was a penguin group pelican books imprint p/b (1987) dedication: for alfred young with admiration and thanks cover art unsigned detail from a cartoon celebrating the repral of the stamp act, reproduced by courtesy of the library of congress, washington (merkia) cover price £6.99, $27.95 new zealand (incl. gst) 288pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 35 end pp: 29pp. bibliographic essay, 5pp. index
annaloog 2nd Jul 2024		J. E. Johnson Wing Leader	Depending on the type of sticker adhesive, try soaking it (the sticker, not the book) in (just enough) lighter fluid and wait a minute or two before attempting to peel.
23skidoo 1st Jul 2024		J. E. Johnson Wing Leader	Book was in pristine condition until I attempted to remove the thrift store price sticker from the back. I wish they're hire people who gave a damn and realized not everyone goes into these stores to buy books to line birdcages with.
ppint. 1st Jul 2024		Frederik Pohl The Age Of Pussyfoot	slight error in the art department... the retitling was accidental, and corrected by the removal° of front & back covers, a year or two later. ° - and replacement with new covers, bearing new art and new uk, xxxxian & kiwiiiian cover prices
ppint. 1st Jul 2024		Judith Kerr When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit	harpercollinspublishers harpercollins childrens books b format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition essentialmodernclassics (sic) series adds 3pp. "why you'll love this book" (nf introduction) michael morpurgo (2008) dedication: for my parents julia and alfred kerr cover art b+w interior illustrations by judith kerr (unsigned, credited) cover price £6.99 272pp. including 8pp. introduction, titles, indicia etc, 24 end pp: 2 blank pp, 18pp. "more than a story" section including 6pp. note by the author, 15pp. historical background information, 2pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Jul 2024		Agatha Christie Murder On The Orient Express	a hercule poirot mystery
ppint. 1st Jul 2024		Agatha Christie Murder On The Orient Express	harpercollinspublishers harper imprint b format p/b first printing not first uk p/b edition printed and bound in great britain by clays ltd. check indicia publishing history for the undated, unexplained printing number below the statement this paperback edition 2013; the highest printing number i've so far seen is "5" dedication: to m.e.l.m. arpachiyah, 1933 cover photographic, photograph by colin garratt; cover design by ghost design (unsigned, these credited on back cover) cover price £7.99 288pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 6 blank end pp.
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore The Best Of C. L. Moore	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by greg hildebrandt, tim hildebrandt (signed hildebrandt, credited as the brothers hildebrandt) cover price $1.95 384pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. 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 edition: march 1976
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Shambleau And Others	contents: weird tales (volume number issue number, month/year) black god's kiss (vol.24 #4, 10/1934) jirel of joiry shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933) northwest smith black god's shadow (vol.24 #6, 12/1934) jirel of joiry black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934) northwest smith the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936) northwest smith jirel meets magic (vol.26 #1, 7/1935) jirel of joiry scarlet dream (vol.23 #5, 5/1934) northwest smith
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Shambleau And Others	gnome press h/cvr first printing, first edition (& stated so on indicia page) reprint collection of three jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes cover (d-j) art by ric binkley (signed binkley, credited on dj back flap) cover (d-j) price $3.00 224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Shambleau	contents: weird tales (volume number issue number, month/year) black god's kiss (vol.24 #4, 10/1934) jirel of joiry shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933) northwest smith black god's shadow (vol.24 #6, 12/1934) jirel of joiry black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934) northwest smith the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936) northwest smith scarlet dream (vol.23 #5, 5/1934) northwest smith
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Shambleau	tbl (thomson books ltd.) sphere books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition reprint collection of two jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 60p, 64p eire, $1.95 australia & new zealand 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia (no table-of-contents) etc, end pp.
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Shambleau	world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books imprint first printing, first edition/first thus logo on front cover is the world distributors logo with those two words replaced by "consul books" reprint collection of two jirel of joiry and four northwest smith novelettes cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2'6 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. c. l. moore is tyopped "c. e. moore" on the cover, but given correctly on the title page etc.
OldMod67 30th Jun 2024		Aldous Huxley Brave New World	Hardcover edition published in 1932 by Harper & Brothers, Publishers. First Perennial Library edition published in 1969. Reset 1989. First Perennial Classics edition published in 1998. First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2006.
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Judgment Night	paperback library mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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: October, 1965
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Northwest Of Earth	contents: novelelettes save the two elsewise indicated: published in weird tales unless elsewise indicated: teaching the world to dream (original nf introduction) c. j. cherryh shambleau (vol.22 #5, 11/1933) black thirst (vol.23 #4, 4/1934) scarlet dreams (vol.23 #5, 5/1934) dust of gods (vol.24 #2, 8/1934) julhi (vol.25 #3, 3/1925) nymph of darkness (short story co-written with forrest j. ackerman) (vol.34 #6, 12/1939) the cold gray god (vol.26 #4, 10/1935) yvala (vol.27 #2, 2/1936) lost paradise (vol.28 #1, 7/1936) the tree of life (vol.28 #3, 10/1936) quest of the starstone (novelette co-written with henry kuttner; also a jirel story) (vol.30 #5, 11/1937) werewoman (fanzine/semi-prozine leaves #2, winter 1938) song in a minor key (short story) (fanzine scienti-snaps vol.3 #1, 2/1940) (fantastic universe vol.7 #1, 1/1957) about the author (nf, uncredited)
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		C. L. Moore Jirel Of Joiry	reprint collection of five novelettes featuring jirel, but n.b. not all six of them: omitted is "quest of the starstone" weird tales vol.30 no.5, 11/1937, q.v. by c. l. moore and henry kuttner, featuring both of c. l. moore's main heroes, jirel of joiry and northwest smith.
ppint. 30th Jun 2024		Peter Robinson All The Colours Of Darkness	inspector banks series #18

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