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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.
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Dwight V. Swain The Transposed Man	"serialized" in thrilling wonder stories vol. xliii #1, 11/1953, with two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay thrilling wonder stories pembertons bre #102, 1/1954; may not include virgil finlay's illustrations
ppint. 26th Sep 2024		Andrew J. Offutt Conan And The Sorcerer	grosset & dunlap charter communications sunridge press tp/b first printing, first edition later accounted their first p/b printing in the first mmpb printing over-all by ace°, which is stated to be the second p/b printing cover art by sanjulian (credited) b+w interior illustrations by esteban maroto (credited on back cover) cover price $5.95 (well, actually states u.s.a. 0005.95 canada 0005.95) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. ° - this sunridge press tp/b bears a grosset & dunlap/charter communications isbn, 0-441-11683-3; the cat# is in the ace books five-digit cat# system: so it'd appear sunridge press was a grosset & dunlap group (including ace books after their purchase by grosset & dunlap) imprint, was considered equivalent to being an ace imprint, and which later likely became an putnam / berkley publishing group imprint.
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 26th Sep 2024		Nicholas Whittaker Platform Souls	Will add scans when time permits.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Edmond Hamilton The Valley Of Creation	"serialized" in startling stories vol.17 #3, 7/1948 with four b+w illustrations by virgil finlay
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		L. Sprague De Camp The Goblin Tower	the reluctant king trilogy #1: #1: ''the goblin tower'' (1968), (this novel) #2: "the clocks of iraz" (1971), q.v. #3: "the unbeheaded king" (1983), q.v.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Terri Windling Borderland	#1 in the borderlands original anthology series: #1-#4 edited by terri windling, #1 & #2 with mark alan arnold, #4 with delia sherman: #5 edited by holly black, ellen kushner: #1: "borderlands" (1986), (this anthology) #2: "bordertown" (1986), q.v. #3: "life on the border" (1991), q.v. #4: "the essential bordertown" (1998), q.v. #5: "welcome to bordertown" (2011), q.v.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Terri Windling Borderland	the introduction by farrel din is non-fictional within the fantasy of borderlands - as indeed is farrel din.
David Whiteley 25th Sep 2024		Charles Chilton Journey Into Space	Added back cover and a full front. The current front cover image is missing its border.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Rim Of Space	concerning bookcat's cataloguing of ace books - yes, it's a mess: or possibly several superimposed messes: ace - 1302 "bookcat items" ace books - 191 items ace charter - 11 items ace fantasy books - 7 items ace science fiction - 16 items ace star - 4 items charter - 22 items charter communications, inc. - 3 items sunridge press - 3 items, a charter communications imprint appears quite closely associated with ace mason/charter - 2 items, may or may not be connected charter uk - 1 item, rather murky background; may be an entirely illegal publication. it bears an 0-425- berkley block isbn, a uk price on the front cover, one copy only known, apparently, bought in texas. (excluding ace books ltd. which was an unconnected uk publisher, and the ace/stoneshire imprint whose origins, existence and disappearance are, to put it mildly, shadowy - but appear to be british.) (also excluding new infinities books, gary gygax's publishing co. whose mmpbs were distributed by ace / the berkley publishing group and bore 0-441- ace, ace charter, charter block isbns, also excluding the iron crown tolkienquest/merpquest gamebooks distributed by ace/berkley, and definitely excluding prestige & ace/prestige titles, which are a whole other complication, being part of the extremely messy collapse and bankruptcy of lancer books and its aftermath.) ace books, later the ace imprint, timeline: 1953 - 1969/70 ace books set up & owned by a. a. wynn, ace books inc. 1969/70 - ?1971? ace books, charter communications, inc. who also publish charter books, ace/charter books, and own other imprints and possibly also own other publishers. charter communications, inc. run out of cash, and ran out of any credibility with authors and agents. ?1971? - 1983 publishers grosset & dunlap, inc. buy charter communications, inc. and ace books, possibly simultaneously (likeliest), eventually straighten out certain accounting problems that have come to light, turn it around, continue ace books as a profitable and properly-run publishers 1983 the berkley publishing group (or putnam-berkley publishing group) buy ace books or grosset & dunlap publishing including the ace imprint 1996 penguin or random penguin buy the putnam / berkley publishing group, including the ace imprint 2013 random house and penguin merge to become random penguin or similar, which since some time in 2020 has been wholly owned by the bertelsmann multinationalmegaconglomerate.
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Leigh Brackett The Sword Of Rhiannon	Rated 10/10 this is the edition first read by yr hmbl srppnt. sometime in the early-to-mid sixties, when my elder bother° borrowed it from church end public library, and the sub-teenage me glommed onto it, devoured it, and has never forgotten it since - despite having only had time to read it the once before he returned it - and couldn't remember the author, its title - nor even having read the book from my memory of the key word, ''rhiannon'', detailed description of the set-up, and the bones of the story! ° - the russian for ''brother'' is ''brat'' - and rightly so! a superb, technically "sub-burroughsian", "planet stories"-style exotic science fiction adventure story, a true gem of its kind, with the accent almost as heavily upon the powerfully exotic setting, as upon the adventure that pits matthew carse, a low-life chancer of a man, a would-be tomb-robber, against an actual, veritable god - and against the cruel, conscienceless saurian race that rules their thalassocracy on mars of yore - exercising their dominion over all other races - including lowly humanity - upon the planet through their fawning worship of this god, and their apparent obedience of him, and his kin, and studying his technological teachings, and wielding the great powers they gain thereby without any shred of compassion, no achilles heel of any inclination towards mercy - thousands of years before our would-be tomb-robber was born. . . - against such inhuman and uncaring, overbearing and unfeelingly callously cruel overlords, what chance does one, very far from heroic - let alone perfect - and utterly out of his depth chancer-on-the-run have ? - this gripped the young ppint.'s imagination, as it has enthralled so many readers in the decades since first it saw the light of day. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 25th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Rim Of Space	jimess: well spotted; as to the month of publication - that "may" should be "march" (source: jad smith's john brunner bibliography); correction submitted.
OldMod67 24th Sep 2024		Philip K. Dick The Penultimate Truth	Gollancz 2005 PB artwork 'Based on illustration by Chris Moore/ Artist Partners
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Far Traveler	daw books mmpb simultaneous near-identical undated° third and fourth printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art & b+w frontispiece by don maitz (both signed, cover credited, retained from first printings) near-meaningless daw books collectors no.327 (retained from first printing) cover price (canada $2.75) • u.s. $2.25 176pp. including titles, indicia etc. refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed. no priority in date of publication established nor liable to be, both undated: both state first printing, february 1979 followed immediately by their respective printing number-string: wholly merkin-printed copies bear /3456789 identifying them as the third printing, canadian-carcassed copies bear /456789 identifying them as the fourth printing ° - publication dates not given in the indicia, taken from sheldon jaffery's "future and fantastic worlds" comprehensive daw books retrospective covering 1972-1987
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Far Traveler	rim worlds: john grimes #8: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for john grimes, rim worlds listings, and links.
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Far Traveller	robert hale h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by graham tucker (unsigned, credited on d-j flap) cover d-j price £3.75 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Novelets Of Science Fiction	author field should^W has been varied to editor.
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Novelets Of Science Fiction	contents: ultrasonic god (novelette) l. sprague de camp, future comb. with science fiction stories vol.2 #2, 7/1951 the chapter ends (ntte) poul anderson, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #6?) 1/1954 (a polesotechnic league story) "a" as in android (short story) milton lesser, future comb. with science fiction stories vol.2 #1, 5/1951; thorpe & porter bre #4, (6/1952?) ...and the truth shall make you free (ss) clifford d. simak, future vol.4 #2, 3/1953; thorpe & porter bre #9, 5/1953 night fear (ss) frank belknap long, dynamic science fiction vol.1 #5, 10/1953 as "night-fear" i am tomorrow (ntte) lester del rey, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #1?) 12/1952 testament of andros (ss) james blish, future science fiction vol.3 #5, 1/1953 the possessed (ss) arthur c. clarke, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #2?) 3/1953
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Novelets Of Science Fiction	contents: ultrasonic god (novelette) l. sprague de camp, future comb. with science fiction stories vol.2 #2, 7/1951 the chapter ends (ntte) poul anderson, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #6?) 1/1954 (a polesotechnic league story) "a" as in android (short story) milton lesser, future comb. with science fiction stories vol.2 #1, 5/1951; thorpe & porter bre #4, (6/1952?) ...and the truth shall make you free (ss) clifford d. simak, future vol.4 #2, 3/1953; thorpe & porter bre #9, 5/1953 night fear (ss) frank belknap long, dynamic science fiction vol.1 #5, 10/1953 as "night-fear" i am tomorrow (ntte) lester del rey, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #1?) 12/1952 testament of andros (ss) james blish, future science fiction vol.3 #5, 1/1953 the possessed (ss) arthur c. clarke, dynamic science fiction (?vol.1 #2?) 3/1953
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Novelets Of Science Fiction	belmont productions belmont books mmpb undated° second printing reprint anthology of five short stories and three novelettes cover art by robert maguire (unsigned, uncredited, retained from first edition) cover price 50¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising ° - date of publication presumedly taken from donald h. tuck cover is identical to that of the first edition save for the cutting out of the original cat# and its replacement on similar colour background.
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Novelets Of Science Fiction	belmont productions belmont books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint anthology of five short stories and three novelettes cover art by robert maguire (unsigned, uncredited; his website has disappeared since his death in 2005) cover price 50¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard Escape To Earth	contents: escape to earth (novelette) manly banister; science fiction quarterly vol.5 #2, 11/1952, three b+w illustrations, one by peter poulton, one by ed emshwiller (''emsh''), one unsigned we are alone (short story) robert sheckley; future vol.3 #4, 11/1952, one b+w illustration unsigned doomsday's color-press (ntte) raymond f. jones; future vol.3 #4, 11/1952, the cover story, art by a. leslie ross, one b+w illustration by paul orban a big man with the girls (ss) james macreigh (frederik pohl), judith merril; future vol.4 #2, 3/1953; bre #9; both: one b+w illustration by milton luros temple of despair (ntte) m. c. pease; dynamic (vol.1 #5) 10/1953, one b+w illustration by don sibley ''if the court pleases'' (ntte) noel loomis; dynamic science fiction (vol.1 #3) 6/1953, one b+w illustration by c. a. murphy
ppint. 24th Sep 2024		Ivan Howard The Weird Ones	thank-you jimess.
JimEss SUBS 23rd Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Rim Of Space	This has a different date than its "double" on F-133. Also a variant publisher name, which means they show up in different gallery views.
ppint. 23rd Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler Star Courier	rim worlds: john grimes #9: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for john grimes, rim world series listings, and links.
ppint. 23rd Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler Star Courier	daw books undated (6/1983°) simultaneous third & fourth printings sharing merkin-printed covers drop the first printings' near-meaningless daw books collectors number, retain the cover art by ray feibush (unsigned, credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover prices differ: cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies, number-string 3456789, for general distribution cover price $2.25 canadadian-printed carcass, number-string 456789, intended for distribution north of the parallel (price change not reflected in second letter of cat#) ° - date taken from "future and fantastic worlds: a bibliographical retrospective of daw books (1972-1987)" sheldon jaffery (1987), q.v.
ppint. 23rd Sep 2024		A. Bertram Chandler The Way Back	rim worlds; john grimes #23: rim worlds a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for rim worlds, john grimes etc. series & links.
ppint. 21st Sep 2024		Jack L. Chalker Medusa	the four lords of the diamond tetralogy #4: #1: "lilith: a snake in the grass" (1981), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 21st Sep 2024		Jack L. Chalker Charon	the four lords of the diamond tetralogy #3: #1: "lilith: a snake in the grass" (1981), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 21st Sep 2024		Jack L. Chalker Lilith	the four lords of the diamond tetralogy #1: #1: "lilith: a snake in the grass" (1981), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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