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JimEss SUBS 24th May 2021		Book Daniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon (1967)	Published simultaneously by Bantam in the US and Canada. Although sometimes it's hard to distinguish, I'm confident this is the Canadian edition.
JimEss SUBS 4th May 2021		Book Lloyd Biggle Jr. - The Still, Small Voice Of Trumpets (1969)	Added covers.
JimEss SUBS 30th Apr 2021		Book J. G. Ballard - The Wind From Nowhere (1962)	Uploaded cover images.
JimEss SUBS 28th Apr 2021		Book Norman Spinrad - Agent Of Chaos (1967)	Added the covers.
JimEss SUBS 20th Apr 2021		Book James H. Schmitz - The Witches Of Karres (1977)	You're welcome ppint. If the book's in my collection, I'll eventually add the images, assuming they're at all scannable. Long way to go though.
JimEss SUBS 19th Apr 2021		Book James H. Schmitz - The Witches Of Karres (1977)	Added the covers.
JimEss SUBS 12th Apr 2021		Book Robert Silverberg - World's Fair, 1992 (1970)	This Young Adult book has two ISBN10 numbers. The one I entered is for the Titan version. There is also a Trade edition with ISBN10 = 0 695 80089 2. My copy is an ex-library copy that was withdrawn from an all-girls High School. I entered the boards for this since I think that's the only difference in the two versions. I'm assuming the Titan version reproduces the pictorial dust jacket, while the Trade edition does not. A close look at the boards shows tape residue leftover after the removal of the Mylar protective cover. The more pictorial cover must have been a fallback for libraries that removed dust jackets for one reason or another.
JimEss SUBS 2nd Apr 2021		Book Robert Silverberg - The Plot Against Earth (1959)	Covers added.
JimEss SUBS 12th Mar 2021		Book Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (1957)	Added covers.
JimEss SUBS 2nd Mar 2021		Book Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17 (1966)	I decided I'd better keep the dash in the title for this one, even though it doesn't match the one already here for Sphere.
JimEss SUBS 27th Feb 2021		Book Mark Twain - The Prince And The Pauper (1964)	Added the covers.
JimEss SUBS 21st Feb 2021		Book J. G. Ballard - Terminal Beach (1964)	Added covers.
JimEss SUBS 15th Feb 2021		Book James H. Schmitz - Agent Of Vega (1982)	Added covers.
JimEss SUBS 9th Feb 2021		Book Daniel F. Galouye - Lords Of The Psychon (1963)	Added covers and month of publication.
JimEss SUBS 1st Feb 2021		Book Eric Arthur Blair - Animal Farm	Perma-Bound is a company that re-binds paperbacks into hardcovers for school classroom or library use. They tend to be classics or popular children's books. Most have school markings inside. This one is from an English department from a school in Florida. The covers are tough and glossy, but lack identification information and pricing, making them difficult to date.
JimEss SUBS 30th Dec 2020		Book John Christopher - The Ragged Edge (1967)	Covers added.
JimEss SUBS 21st Dec 2020		Book Margaret Millar - Vanish In An Instant (1953)	Covers added. The cover art is by Griffith Foxley.
JimEss SUBS 1st Dec 2020		Book Florence Stonebraker - Shameful Love (1954)	Or maybe not so strange. In their introduction to Sexy Digests BookScans calls them "risqué romance novels." It would be interesting to see what would appear if we had a genre field that wasn't table driven: "erotica," "sleaze," "porn," "sexy digest" etc. Also of interest here is that Mick reversed the pen name. Unless you re-read the add instructions frequently, it can be a bit confusing. Maybe the pen name field should read "Pen Name (Name On Cover)" or something similar.
JimEss SUBS 19th Nov 2020		Book Fred Hoyle - Fifth Planet (1973)	Undated later printing, so the year of publication has been extrapolated from the cat#.
JimEss SUBS 11th Nov 2020		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers (1961)	Added covers and month of first Signet edition.
JimEss SUBS 9th Nov 2020		Book Philip K. Dick - The Game-players Of Titan (1972)	Added the covers. Although my copy has only 2 pp. of adverts at the end. So maybe a slightly later printing. It has The Kent cigarette ads in the middle though.
JimEss SUBS 29th Sep 2020		Book C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel (1964)	Added front and back covers.
JimEss SUBS 23rd Sep 2020		Book Robert Silverberg - The Longest Way Home (2002)	@ppint, yes you're correct. I'll have this one changed to August. Now that I know you're confident dating sfbc books, I'll haul out some of my older ones, lol.
JimEss SUBS 12th Aug 2020		Book Heinz Knoke - I Flew For The Führer (1967)	I couldn't find an image of the original German edition, but it looks like it was first published in 1952 not 1953, so I submitted a correction. I did spot at least two Corgi mmpk's and one on Berkley that preceded this edition, and a later one on Bantam. And who knows how many others.
JimEss SUBS 10th Aug 2020		Book John Beynon Harris - The Secret People (1967)	Covers added. 175 numbered pages, 176 total.
JimEss SUBS 24th Jul 2020		Book Peter Haining - Beyond The Curtain Of Dark (1972)	This edition has 23 stories, apparently one less than the original edition.
JimEss SUBS 9th Jul 2020		Book Harry Whittington - Swamp Kill (1952)	Pen name and real name need reversal?
JimEss SUBS 4th Jul 2020		Book William Shakespeare - Hamlet (1968)	I've shortened the title so it links up with the other Hamlets.
JimEss SUBS 22nd Jun 2020		Book Norman Spinrad - The Iron Dream (1972)	Added covers and month.
JimEss SUBS 12th Jun 2020		Book Edmond Rostand - Cyrano De Bergerac (1941)	While it doesn't mention "new version" at all, the first copyright date given is 1923, Henry Holt and Company, So it's the undoubtedly the same version. Brian Hooker has a short Wiki bio that mentions his translation.

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