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Member	Book		Comment / Review
JimEss SUBS 27th Oct 2024		Mark J. McGarry Blank Slate	Added covers.
23skidoo 26th Oct 2024		David Weber Flag In Exile	Cover scans added.
annaloog 24th Oct 2024		Captain W. E. Johns Worrals Flies Again	I'd think that the 'real' authorship of, say, Mark Twain is fairly well known. That of, say, Carolyn Keene , Saki, or Charity / Lee Blackstock (among many others), not as well known. Sometimes, it's a matter of how far the book uploader is willing to go to research the author, though I'd expect it's much easier to accept the book-in-hand at face value. Eventually, given time, patience and enough prodding, the better-known authors and their pen names will be assembled together. H'mmm, no BBcode link for pen names.
23skidoo 24th Oct 2024		John Guy Queen Of Scots	The 2005 date on this edition is incorrect as it references the 2018 movie so the edition indexed here can't be dated earlier than a year or so earlier. It also has an ISBN-13 and books didn't have those before 2007, making this a later reprint.
annaloog 24th Oct 2024		Storm P. 155 Av Storm P:s Bästa	"Storm P." appears to be a pen name for Robert Storm Petersen.
23skidoo 24th Oct 2024		Captain W. E. Johns Worrals Flies Again	@annaloog Fair enough. Should I go back and correct the entries for Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew books (which I belive are listed by the author real name, though several different people wrote as Keene) or the books of Walter Wager who was often credited as John Tiger? I've been following incorrect instructions all this time.
ppint. 23rd Oct 2024		Barrington J. Bayley The Soul Of The Robot	condor publications first printing, seemingly first mmpb edition, not first p/b edition cover art by a. echevarria (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
MICKDOOM67 23rd Oct 2024		Anton Richler The Iron Heel	Cover art by Dan Rainey & back cover image added.
ppint. 23rd Oct 2024		Bob Shaw Night Walk	victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by peter gudynas cover price £2.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Oct 2024		John Maddox Roberts The Cingulum	the cingulum #1: #1: "the cingulum" (1985), (this book) #2: "cloak of illusion" (1985), q.v. #3: "the sword, the jewel and the mirror" (1988), q.v.
ppint. 23rd Oct 2024		John Maddox Roberts The Cingulum	tom doherty asociates/st. martin's press tor books imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art by vicente segrelles (unsigned sfaics°, miscredited to "norma segrelles") isbn 0-812-55200-8 usa cat# 55200 usa cover price $2.95 usa isbn 0-812-55201-6 canada cat# 55201 canada cover price $3.50 canada 288pp. including 6 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - the original artwork is probably signed with a (?year-dated?) stylised "segrelles"; the cover is reproduced on vicente segrelles' website
annaloog 23rd Oct 2024		Captain W. E. Johns Worrals Flies Again	Quote: ... I was told 10 years ago we use real name and then indicate pen name in the appropriate field - with no exceptions. The guide to adding books (also) states, Do please add books using a single canonical version of an author's name, even if there is a variation of the name on the book cover. The name could be that which the author is best known, or how the author is referred to on Wikipedia, eg D. H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood. [my emphasis] The problem I see with using the "real name" (as here) is that it is not always obvious, and it's far easier to use the pen name, since that is ordinarily on the cover or title page. The copyright holder sometimes, but not always, is the author's real name.
23skidoo 22nd Oct 2024		Captain W. E. Johns Worrals Flies Again	@ppint. Have you submitted a correction? If not I'll leave it to "annaloog" or another administrator to decide if to make the change. I do not know why Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain and a few others are entered under the pen names only but I was told 10 years ago we use real name and then indicate pen name in the appropriate field - with no exceptions.
ppint. 22nd Oct 2024		Captain W. E. Johns Worrals Flies Again	the author's name should be emended to "captain w. e. johns" - as upon the image of the book d-j - - as this was by far and away his most-frequently used by-line; - and bookcat already has 61 books listed under this, his preferred form of his name - - plus a further 3 under the abbreviation, "capt. w. e. johns". (and there are a further 23 books by him listed under the by-line "w. e. johns", iirc all scandawegian translations.) captain w. e. johns did not, so far as yr hmbl srppnt. is aware, see any of his books published as by "william earl johnson" - and nor have they been so by-lined when reprinted/republished since his death. it is established bookcat practice to list all of an author's books under their most commonly-used, preferred by-line: e.g. books by george orwell, books by j. r. r. tolkien, books by andre norton, books by lord dunsany - etc, etc. - noting variations and pseudonyms, where employed (excluding only house names), as pen-names in the field provided.
ppint. 21st Oct 2024		Andre Norton Forerunner Foray	grosset dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by charles mikolaycak (signed, shared from the viking press h/cvr first edition) cover price $1.50 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf preface by andre norton etc, end pp. advertising publication date not given in the indicia; taken from locus 175, 24/6/1975
ppint. 21st Oct 2024		Andre Norton Forerunner Foray	forerunner (warlock) series #3: #1: ''storm over warlock'' (1960), q.v. for series listings, and links.
ppint. 21st Oct 2024		Andre Norton Ordeal In Otherwhere	this ace books mmpb first printing bears only the 1964 copyright date; ace F-320 is known to've been published as a 2/1965 title, and F-337 is known to've been published 6/1965: (they were the respective original novels' first editions); so ace F-325 was first published from 2/1965 to 6/1965, and not in 1964.
ppint. 21st Oct 2024		Andre Norton Ordeal In Otherwhere	forerunner (planet warlock) series #2: #1: "storm over warlock" (1960), q.v. for series listing and links.
ppint. 21st Oct 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Wild Ones	published posthumously, this was a. bertram chandler's last novel: he died 6/6/1984.
JimEss SUBS 21st Oct 2024		A. E. Van Vogt The Changeling	Back cover added.
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay The Siege Of Faltara	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by boris vallejo (unsigned, though the full painting probably is, credited as boris) cover price $1.95 240pp. (check) including (i-)ix pages titles, indicia, prolog, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay Karma	tbl (thomson books ltd.) sphere books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by jim burns (signed, obscured by logo; collected in "lightship" jim burns, chtlris evans (1985) q.v.) cover price £1.75 (check for overseas territories prices) 388 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay A Hostage For Hinterland	serialized in earlier (?possibly abridged?°) form as "helium" in galaxy vol.36 #4, #5, #6; 4-5, 6, 7/1975; episode #1: cover story, art and a b+w illustratio; episode #2: two b+w illustrations; episode #3: three b+w illustrations, all by jack gaughan "uk edition" numbers #28, #29, #30 were printed on the original merkin issues' covers iirc, and these were distributed (ha!) in the uk-of-gb(?'n'norniron?) by tandem books, but these were not distinct british reprint editions ("bre"s). ° - i've not compared the two versions in any way; in fact, i'm not even certain i read the ballantine mmpb - things were happening in single step that demanded a lot of attention, and i wasn't then aware that the texts differed.
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay A Hostage For Hinterland	random house group ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by boris vallejo (unsigned, though the full artwork probably is, credited) cover price $1.50 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay The Splendid Freedom	"plutonium" was later expanded by arsen darnay into the novel, "karma" (1978), aka "the karma affair" (1979), q.v.
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay The Splendid Freedom	contents: the splendid freedom (novelette) galaxy vol. 36 #9, 9/1974, universal-tandem bre 21st edition (!), both: a b+w illustration by stephen fabian the eastcoast confinement (novella) galaxy vol.35 #10, 10/1974, universal-tandem bre 22nd edition (!), both: a b+w stephen fabian illustration plutonium (novella) galaxy vol.37 #3, 5/1976, cover story, art + 3 b+w illustrations by stephen fabian
ppint. 20th Oct 2024		Arsen Darnay The Splendid Freedom	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of a novelette and two novellas forming a series or debatably a "non-fix-up novel" cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $2.25 cat# 77796 256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
OldMod67 19th Oct 2024		Various Authors West Howe Proper	@carryonsidney: I've PM'd you so I don't turn the comments into my message service!
JPGR&B SUBS 19th Oct 2024		Various Authors West Howe Proper	@carryonsidney Who was your brother?
Pridesale 19th Oct 2024		Bram Stoker Dracula	Bram Stoker Ghost Story 1890 Dublin Daily Express

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