New English Library - Latest Updates

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Comment by 23skidoo:

The Prisoner novels have been reprinted periodically. Does anyone know if #3 has ever been reprinted under the author's current name, Jean Stine? I don't know when she changed name; if it was within the last 20 years I don't know if there have been any reprints of it. The first book by Thomas Disch tends to be the one that gets reissued a lot.

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Comment by ppint.:

second in a loose series set in a fragmented, balkanised america:

"after things fell apart" (1970), q.v.
"gadget man" (1971), (this novel)
"hawkshaw" (1972), q.v.
"crackpot" (1977), q.v.
"brinkman" (1981), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

the quality of paper used for new english library's h/cvrs of this period is dreadful; the wood-pulp paper was much more highly acidic than the grade(s) generally used for uk p/bs, browned very quickly across the full page, and became increasingly brittle.

caveat emptor!

specialist dealers in secondhand sf, fantasy & horror books quite commonly referred to the publisher in regards to these h/cvr editions as "new english lavatory paper". . .

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Comment by ppint.:

tim white's cover art is re-used from the 1/1979 new english library p/b, where it is credited to him on the back cover; after they bought the company in 1982 from times-mirror of los angeles (or whoever'd bought them), it was retained by hodder & stoughton for their new english library imprint reprintings.

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library h/cvr first printing, first uk h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art by tim white (unsigned, ?credited on d-j flap? check this.)
cover (d-j) price £4.25
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

d-j typography interpolates robert heinlein's central "a." into new english library's rendition of his byline

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library fourth printing, with new isbn, and new

cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 40p (check overseas territories prices)
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between this and the near-identical:

4/1985 hodder & stoughton / new english library imprint first p/b printing, new english library p/b fifth printing over-all, also differs:
cover price rise (?to £1.95? - check)
near-identical with this (publishing history notes the further reprinting)
8/1974 near-identical new english library p/b sixth printing over-all
retains white cover typography, cover price £1.95
n.b. cover typography has interpolated robert heinlein's central "a." into his byline

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library first printing, not first uk p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 30p (check overseas territories prices)
144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between this and:

7/1972 near-identical new english library p/b second printing
5/1974 near-identical new english library p/b third printing

new english library p/b 1/1979 fourth printing (new edition) bears new isbn, new cover art by tim white - and interpolates.robert heinlein's "a."

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Comment by MICKDOOM67:

Back cover image added.

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition sfaiaa

cover art unsigned, b+w photographic treated with spot red, light blue titles
cover price 30p, (overseas territories prices - check)
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

the micronauts or micronaut chronicles #2:

#1: "the micronauts" (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

le comte de saint-germain series #1

#1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), (this novel)
#2: "the palace" (1979), q.v.
#3: "blood games" (1979), q.v.
#4: "path of the eclipse" (1981), q.v.
#5: "tempting fate" (1982), q.v.

C#1: "the saint-germain chronicles" (collection) (1983) q.v.
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#6 & ff... (i believe about twenty further titles were published in h/cvr and/or yp/b from 1993 onwards, but have seen no general p/b editions as yet)

atta olivia clemens series: the prequel series to the above:
0#1: ''a flame in byzantium'' (1987), q.v.
0#2: ''crusader's torch'' (1988), q.v.
0#3: ''a candle for d'artagnan'' (1989), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

times mirror new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition

there appears to've been no further uk dead tree edition since.

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by robert (bob) foster (re-used from paperback library mmpb first edition)
cover price 6/- 30p, pts 75 spain, $1.00 australia, 85c new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

chosen by-line of george hughes cooper, jr; later changed his name to george hill leonard

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Comment by ppint.:

new english library p/b first printing ,second printing over-all including the four square p/b, with new

cover art by tim white (unsigned, check if credited; reproduced sans typography in "the science fiction and fantasy world of tim whitee" tim white (1981), q.v.)
cover price 95p (check for other territories prices)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising