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JPGR&B SUBS 13th Oct 2024		Piers Hemmingsen The Beatles In Canada: The Evolution - 1964-1970	Latest update from Piers is that he is working on the funding of the book’s printing costs etc. The book is very large and expensive to print, along with the reprints he plans for the earlier RED issue. Once that funding is secured the plan is to go to print early 2025.
JPGR&B SUBS 13th Oct 2024		Piers Hemmingsen The Beatles In Canada: The Evolution - 1964-1970 [Limited Edition]	Latest update from Piers is that he is working on the funding of the book’s printing costs etc. The book is very large and expensive to print, along with the reprints he plans for the earlier RED issue. Once that funding is secured the plan is to go to print early 2025.
ppint. 12th Oct 2024		Robert A. Heinlein Universe	first of two novelettes published as stand-alone (though obviously linked) stories in astounding science fiction, later collected and published in h/cvr by victor gollancz as the fix-up (possibly no revision of either to fit together, i've not checked; so may be a ''non-fix-up'') novel, "orphans of the sky" (1963), q.v. ''universe'' (novelette) astounding vol. xxvii #3, 5/1941 the cover story, with five b+w interior illustrations also by hubert rogers ''common sense'' (novelette) astounding vol. xxviii #2, 10/1941 five b+w interior illustrations by paul orban
MICKDOOM67 ● 12th Oct 2024		J. F. Dawson Operation Hell-Fire	Cover art by Ed Blandford and back cover image added.
MICKDOOM67 ● 12th Oct 2024		L. F. Martin Hell Command	Cover art by Henry Fox & back cover image also added.
MICKDOOM67 ● 12th Oct 2024		Roland F. Maxwell No Epitaph	Front cover art by Gil Cohen and previously used on adventure magazine cover 'Action For Men' in May 1961.
MICKDOOM67 ● 12th Oct 2024		D. J. Lomax Breakthrough Europe	Cover art by Dave Dimmock and rear cover image added.
JPGR&B SUBS 8th Oct 2024		Various Authors Across The Universe	Leslie advised me today that they have a publisher and will be signing with the publisher by the end of October. The book is finished and they are just dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s to make sure that they have all the necessary permissions for use of posters etc. They have 99%. The cover will be finished soon. Since Leslie was last in touch they have have located over 1250 Beatles locations. The book will be split in to sections as follows: SECTION ONE: BEATLES CONCERT VENUES (352 Venues) SECTION TWO: FILM LOCATION VENUES (93 Venues) SECTION THREE: SPECIAL VENUES (2 Venues) SECTION FOUR: APPENDICES (815) Venues)
kab2112 SUBS 7th Oct 2024		Various Contributors Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide 2026	Just had a "Quick Flick" through to check on some of my vinyl records that are worth a bob or two.. Prices are holding well and seem to be on the increase in some cases.
MICKDOOM67 ● 6th Oct 2024		Robert Novak Climb A Broken Ladder	Back cover image added.
ppint. 4th Oct 2024		William Hope Hodgson The Boats Of The 'Glen Carrig'	wm collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by luis rey (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand, $5.95 canada 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 4th Oct 2024		William Hope Hodgson The Boats Of The Glen Carrig	tbl (thomson books ltd) sphere books first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by les edwards cover price £1.50, £1.50 malta, $4.95 australia 192pp. (check) including (i-)xii pp. titles, indicia, nf introduction by lin carter, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Oct 2024		George Baker The Clones	caravelle books flagship mmpb first printing, apparently first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited (style strongly suggesting an established artist used by other publishers) cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 3rd Oct 2024		Elmer J. Carpenter Moonspin	caravelle books flagship mmpb first printing, apparently first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cat# 715 cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 3rd Oct 2024		Leo P. Kelley Mythmaster	thank-you jimess.
ppint. 2nd Oct 2024		Andrew J. Offutt Genetic Bomb	warner paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by vincent di fate (unsigned, credited as v. difate) cover price $1.25 208pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 2nd Oct 2024		Peter Valentine Timlett The Twilight Of The Serpent	the seedbearers trilogy #3: #1: ''the seed bearers'' (1974), q.v.; for series listing, and links.
ppint. 2nd Oct 2024		Peter Valentine Timlett The Power Of The Serpent	the seedbearers trilogy #2: #1: ''the seed bearers'' (1974), q.v.; for series listing, and links.
ppint. 2nd Oct 2024		Peter Valentine Timlett The Seedbearers	the seedbearers trilogy #1 #1: ''the seed bearers'' (1974), q.v.; for series listing, and links.
ppint. 2nd Oct 2024		Peter Valentine Timlett The Seed Bearers	#1 of the seedbearers trilogy: #1: ''the seed bearers'' (1974) (this novel) aka ''the seedbearers'' (1974, 1976), q.v. #2: "the power of the serpent" (1976), q.v.; #3: "the twilight of the serpent" (1977), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #0: ''the seedbearers saga'' (2002), q.v.
23skidoo 2nd Oct 2024		James Joyce A Shorter Finnegans Wake	Burgess listed as co-author owing to his editorial and textual contributions to this edition. Since this is a major re-editing with commentary, I didn't index it as a new edition Finnegans Wake itself.
Pridesale 1st Oct 2024		J. R. R. Tolkien The Return Of The King	I have , but never read - will I read ? the three books in paperback as a tri-set. well it should have been but my cousin lost one and I got an alternate from elsewhere, will the three fit in the card binding - nope - I wonder why
ppint. 1st Oct 2024		Lin Carter Dragonrouge	terra magical series #2: #1: "kesrick" (1982), q.v. for series listing and links.
JimEss SUBS 1st Oct 2024		Leo P. Kelley Mythmaster	Added covers.
Pridesale 30th Sep 2024		Jim Blake Trolleybus Twilight: Britain's Last Trolleybus Systems	Publisher Blurb In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. Most British trolleybus systems flourished in the inter-war years, particularly the 1930s. The biggest fleet was that of London Transport. But for the Second World War, it would have been bigger still if South London's trams had been replaced by trolleybuses, as intended. London, however, replaced these with motor-buses instead, influencing other operators to abandon their trolleybuses, too. By the 1960s, their demise was well under way. Fortunately, during that decade, Jim travelled throughout England and Wales, photographing buses, coaches, steam locomotives and trolleybuses. This book features the latter, beginning with their final weeks in London, then continuing to places as diverse as Bournemouth and Cardiff, Bradford and Maidstone. Most pictures have never been published before. Taken between 1962 and 1968, they transport the reader back to a wonderful land with many quaint forms of public transport, particularly trolleybuses! What will strike readers is their variety of liveries, manufacturers and so on. Britain's last trolleybuses ran in 1972. Despite many other world cities having modern trolleybus systems today, it will be a long time before they return to our streets, if ever! How sad when our cities are polluted by vehicles powered by internal combustion engines: trolleybuses are completely pollution-free
Pridesale 30th Sep 2024		Jim Blake The London Leylands	Publisher Blurb LONDON'S FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built between 1947 and 1954 to replace worn-out pre-war and wartime buses, as well as our remaining trams. More than 7,000 were built in all and although London Transport favoured A.E.C. chassis, which the first batches of RTs had, so pressing was the need for new buses that not enough could be supplied by that manufacturer to match demand. Therefore Leyland Motors were contracted to adapt their Leyland "Titan" PD2 chassis to fit bodies that, for the most part, were identical with those on RTs. The result was the 1,631-strong RTL class, together with the 500 RTWs, which had bodies also built by Leyland to the same general design, were built between 1948 and 1954 Always in a minority compared to the 4,825-strong RT class, these Leyland buses had a character all of their own, perhaps personified by their louder engine note. They also had a reputation for being heavier on their steering than the RTs, making them unpopular with staff, and therefore general withdrawal of them commenced in 1958, taking almost ten years to complete (in November 1968), whereas the RTs soldiered on until April 1979. During the RTL and RTW class buses' final years, Jim Blake was out and about photographing them throughout London. A selection of his photographs of them, most previously unpublished, is presented here. Nearly fifty years after their demise from London's streets, the RTLs and RTWs still have a firm following amongst bus enthusiasts and preservationists alike, and it is to them that this book is dedicated!
Pridesale 30th Sep 2024		Jim Blake British Buses And Coaches In The 1960s: A Panoramic View	Publisher Blurb British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s, is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain's history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968. Jim Blake has compiled an interesting collection of material from his extensive collection of negatives taken during that time, which give a flavour of how things were at that time of great change.
Pridesale 30th Sep 2024		Jim Blake The British Transport Commission Group	Publisher Blurb This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-urban and rural bus services in England and Wales, and were nationalised by Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1948 under the control of the British Transport Commission ( we should note this was due to British Railways constituents owning the shares of Tilling's Bus Operations) Ownership passed to the Transport Holding Company Ltd in 1963, though the fleets remained under Tilling Group control. During the period covered by this book, the operators within the group had very standardised fleets, with the vast majority of their buses and coaches having Bristol chassis and Eastern Coachworks (ECW) bodywork. This was a result of these manufacturers also having been nationalised and controlled by the BTC and THC. However, some Tilling Group operators still had earlier vehicles with, for instance, AEC or Leyland chassis, which were acquired prior to the requirement for them to buy only Bristol products, whilst some also had coaches with Bedford or Ford Thames chassis built in the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike the BET fleets throughout England and Wales, most Tilling fleets also had highly standardised liveries, either of red with cream relief, or green with cream relief for their stage carriage buses, or the reverse of this for their coaches. There were some exceptions, though. The most obvious ones were Midland General and Notts & Derby, whose livery was an attractive dark blue and cream; as well as the Royal Blue coaches of Southern and Western National and the maroon and cream coaches of Thames Valley subsidiary South Midland. All Tilling Group companies became part of the National Bus Company in early 1969, and before long their traditional liveries became just a memory when the NBC imposed standard red or green liveries(exceptionally blue). Throughout most of the 1960s, Jim Blake travelled to these operators and photographed their vehicles, and spent many summer Saturdays at London's Victoria Coach Station, where their service buses as well as express coaches could be seen. He was fortunate to capture much of this changing transport scene on film, and presents some of these photographs in this volume. Many have never been published before.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak City [complete]	octopus publishing group mandarin imprint p/b first printing, octopus having engulfed abp, essentially the second printing of the abp/methuen london 1988 edition, with new cover art (unsigned, uncredited) cover price £3.99 276pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak City [complete]	abp/methuen london first complete uk edition°, first printing thus cover art by nick rodgers (unsigned, credited on back cover as nick rogers) cover price £3.50 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus. ° - includes "epilog" (short story) in "the john w. campbell memorial anthology" eds. harry harrison, brian aldiss (1973) plus clifford simak's musing notes concerning the wisdom - or otherwise - of returning to a greatly loved series after so long a time.

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