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Comment by ppint.:

some very high hundreds to low thousands of copies of this mmpb were imported and distributed in the uk by thorpe & porter bearing a white 3/6 upon blue price label (no other text nor even the tepee logo).

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Comment by ppint.:

belmont productions belmont books mmpb stated second printing in the indicia

cover art by jack gaughan (signed with his "jg" digraph, uncredited)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

thank-you jimess.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Added covers.

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Comment by ppint.:

author field should^W has been varied to editor.

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Comment by ppint.:

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

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Comment by ppint.:

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

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Comment by ppint.:

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

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Comment by ppint.:

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.

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Comment by ppint.:

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

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Comment by ppint.:

thank-you jimess.

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Comment by ppint.:

magazine publication in imagination vol.5 #1, 1/1954 (n.b. not 1953, though © 1953 by greenleaf);
cover art & b+w illustration by w. e. terry.

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Comment by ppint.:

lee hoffman is/was the habitual professional by-line of shirley bell hoffmann 14/8/1932-6/2/2007

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Comment by ppint.:

belmont publications mmpb simultaneous near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
half a "belmont double"

cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed
cover price 50¢
½ 160pp. including 2 x titles, indicia, both novellas/short novels, etc, end p. advertising

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state a belmont book --- august 1967

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Comment by ppint.:

cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to B50-779 as per the cover image, and the cat# assigned to the other half of this belmont publications mmpb "double"

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Comment by ppint.:

the author given in the author field is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has now been corrected to "leo p. kelley"

-:as per the indicia copyright notice -

- and as initially pointed out here on bookcat four - rising five - years ago.

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Comment by ppint.:

the number string on the spine, 500-00820-050 is not an sbn of any variety
it may be this edition's abn. the last three digits are the cover price in cents.

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Comment by ppint.:

belmont productions mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers

reprint collection of two short stories, a novelette and a novella

cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from first printing
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 / second printing may 1968

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Comment by ppint.:

belmont productions belmont mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

reprint collection of two short stories, a novelette and a novella

cover art unsigned, uncredited (it looks as though it could be by richard powers, but this is not an attribution)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 a belmont book --- may 1964

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Comment by ppint.:

number string 505-01018-060 on spine is not an sbn of any variety;
it might be this edition's abn. the last three digits are the price in cents.

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Comment by ppint.:

belmont productions belmont mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; it looks like a slightly treated enlarged photographic detail
cover price 60¢
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 a belmont book --- june 1969

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Comment by MICKDOOM67 SUBS:

Front & rear images added.