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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.
ppint. 30th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak Out Of Their Minds	abp/methuen london first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.50 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus. chris moore's covers art is not a copy of frank kelly freas' art for the daw mmpb, but would seem to owe at least a little to it, for the appealig/appalling figure. . .
David Whiteley 29th Sep 2024		Stephen Morris Bus Scene In Colour: London Buses	Added back cover.
23skidoo 28th Sep 2024		David Weber Ashes Of Victory	On several of the Honor Harrington book covers I often wonder if the artist wasn't fantasy casting Angelina Jolie in the part. Although this particular cover isn't as close to her look as others, I cannot help wondering if the decision to give Jolie's character an eyepatch in the 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow wasn't in some way inspired by Harrington's look once she began sporting an eyepatch in the series.
23skidoo 28th Sep 2024		David Weber A Rising Thunder	Cover scans added
Pridesale 28th Sep 2024		Stephen Morris Bus Scene In Colour: London Buses	Stephan Morris and Philip Lamb 184mm x 240mm £13.99
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak Out Of Their Minds	daw books simultaneous near-identical first printings, not first mmpb edition cover art by frank kelly freas (signed, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.514 cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing number line 123456789 cover price $2.95° canadian-carcased variant intended for distribution north of the parallel,; though published simultaneously, the indicia printing number line first printing, november 1980/23456789 identifies them as the second printing ° - the second letter of the cat# is not varied to reflect the different cover price
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak Out Of Their Minds	may be the berkley medallion mmpb fourth printing, as an earlier printing is also stated to be the third.
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Joan D. Vinge Eyes Of Amber And Other Stories	contents: eyes of amber (novelette) analog vol. xcvii #6, 6/1977; cover story, art by john schoenherr to bell the cat (ntte) iamsf vol.1 #2, summer/1977 view from a height (short story) analog vol. xcvii #6, 6/1978; cover story, art by ron miller media man (novella) analog vol. xcv #10, 10/1976; cover story, art by vincent difate, also two b+w difate illustrations the crystal ship (nlla) "the crystal ship" ed. robert silverberg (1976) tin soldier (nlla) "orbit 14" ed. damon knight (1974)
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak Out Of Their Minds	dent/david & charles readers union science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover d-j art (unsigned, uncredited yellow & black composition including partial view of a human eye) cover d-j price (none, though the £1.60 price of the 1972 sidgwick & jackson uk h/cvr is noted) 188 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, perfect bound (check) with endpapers between covered boards
OldMod67 28th Sep 2024		Nevil Shute Pied Piper	This edition is the 1970 reset edition ('79 reprint) which was still circulating in school in 1981
MICKDOOM67 28th Sep 2024		W. H. Fear Operation Satellite	Rear cover image added and cover art is by Stan Nicholson.
ppint. 28th Sep 2024		Clifford D. Simak Out Of Their Minds	the berkley publishing group berkley medallion mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by herbert norton rogoff (signed, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 192 pp. including 4 unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc. refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the undated near-identical third printing° which differs: adds line stating third printing° ° - this statement may have been erroneous, whether through the expected or actual appearance of a near-identical second printing, or the presumption of the existence of a canadian-carcased variant first printing, later accounted the second - or simple publishing office/printer's mistake; the berkley medallion 11/1975 mmpb cat# Z2997, q.v., bearing new cover art by richard powers is also stated to be the third berkley medallion mmpb in its indicia
David Whiteley 27th Sep 2024		Charles Chilton The World In Peril	Added back cover.
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler Star Loot	rim worlds: john grimes #12: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for rim worlds, john grimes series listings, and links.
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler Star Loot	robert hale first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by jim cambridge (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £6.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler Matilda's Stepchildren	rim worlds; john grimes #11: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for rim worlds, john grimes etc. series listings & links.
admiral halsey 27th Sep 2024		Various Contributors The Beatles Get Back	Notorious for loose and/or missing pages. Decent copies £50+ AH
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Tanith Lee The Silver Metal Lover	daw books mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, and hence also isbn, cat# and cover art by don maitz (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece by tanith lee (unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collectors no.476 cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, printing history line first daw printing, april 1982, number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 includes digit "1" cover price $2.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel, indicia printing history line first daw printing, april 1982/23456789 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc., end pp. advertising though published simultaneously, the printing number line formally identifies the canadadian-carcassed variant as the second printing refer also to indicia to check where carcass of the copy held was printed
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		Tanith Lee The Silver Metal Lover	unwin paperbacks orion imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by danny flynn (signed "dan", credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		M. John Harrison The Centauri Device	unwin paperbacks orion imprint b format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by fred gambino (may be signed hidden in-picture as a graffito, credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; aken from locus
ppint. 27th Sep 2024		M. John Harrison The Centauri Device	granada publishing panther books first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition cover art by peter (paj°) jones (unsigned, uncredited; collected in "solar wind" peter jones (1980), q.v. cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising cover bears the 9-digit sbn; ° - peter jones's signature may well be on the full painting.
JimEss SUBS 27th Sep 2024		Vonda N. McIntyre Superluminal	Cover art by Robert Maguire. There's a pretty good interview with Maguire at American Art Archives.
JimEss SUBS 27th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Rim Of Space	Cleaning up these publishers is undoubtedly a long term project. Maybe a very long term project. However, someone did a very nice job of combining Ballantine Books USA a while back. Thanks for doing that. So far, it still looks good.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler To Keep The Ship	rim worlds: john grimes #10: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for john grimes & rim worlds series listings and links.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler To Keep The Ship	daw books near-identical undated simultaneous 5/1983° third & fourth printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by h. r. van dongen (credited) (retained from daw books first edition) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph, uncredited) (also retained) near-meaningless daw books collectors number is dropped from the front cover cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed third printing, indicia printing history number-string, first printing, june 1978/3456789 cover price $2.95 canadian-carcased fourth printing intended for distribution north of the parallel, indicia printing history number-string, first printing, june 1978/456789 (second letter of cat# is not changed to reflect different cover price) 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - date of publication not given in the indicia, taken from sheldon jaffery, gordon benson & philip stephensen-payne
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Steve Frazee The Sky Block	very approximately one to two thousand copies imported by thorpe & porter and distributed in the yuk-of-gb (?'n'norniron?) bearing a small blue teepee 1/9d price label with the figure "2" on the line-drawn teepee - i do not know whether this indicates the month of distribution.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Steve Frazee The Sky Block	the 1955 bodley head h/cvr was apparently the first uk edition, but i've no record of ever having seen it.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Steve Frazee The Sky Block	mayflower books mayflower dell imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art signed indecipherably (vertically upwards near lower fly corner), uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 2/6 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Steve Frazee The Sky Block	lion library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by bob (robert) maguire cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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