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ppint. 26th Aug 2024		Book Jeffrey Lord - Liberator Of Jedd (1971)	jeffrey lord is/was a house name owned and controlled by the packager/agent/etc. lyle kenyon engel, here disguising the work-for-hire of manning lee stokes
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Constantine FitzGibbon - When The Kissing Had To Stop (1962)	fiercely anti-communist and anti-nuclear disarmament, fitzgibbon's near-future vision is of a britain invaded and occupied by an opportunistic soviet union after the ill-advisedly idealistic abandonment of nuclear weapons by a left-wing government of the uk-of-gb-&-ni. it was dramatised for television as an itv "play of the week" broadcast in 1962, and after some virulent criticism of the author at the time, he adopted one of the more colourful charges levied against him as the title of his "random thoughts of a fascist hyena" (1963), q.v.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Constantine FitzGibbon - When The Kissing Had To Stop (1962)	pan books first printing, "great pan" across top front cover = 2'6 cover price, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2'6 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space (1958)	comes across very much as "the 1940s r.a.f. in space.." - this was also (as shown on back cover of the pan p/bs) and originally famous in the mid-twentieth century c.e. as a bbc radio dramatised serialisation, broadcast 1953-1958. periodically re-broadcast on bbc radio7^W radio4extra (dab, also dvb) in the twenty-first century. . .
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space (1958)	some considerable part of pan's print run was bound in near-identical covers lacking uk price on front for export: those exported to austalia may well have the australian price printed on the front or on the back cover. some of the unpriced-covered p/bs were likely distributed in the uk-of-gb-&-ni/roi bearing the uk price on initially peelable sticky labels.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - The World In Peril (1962)	some considerable part of the print run bound in near-identical covers lacking uk price on front for export: those exported to austalia may well have the australian price printed on the front or on the back cover. some of the unpriced-covered p/bs were distributed in the uk-of-gb-&-ni/roi bearing the uk price on initially peelable sticky labels.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - The Red Planet (1960)	some considerable part of the print run bound in near-identical covers lacking uk price on front for export: those exported to austalia may well have the australian price printed on the front or on the back cover. some of the unpriced-covered p/bs were distributed in the uk-of-gb-&-ni/roi bearing the uk price on initially peelable sticky labels.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space (1963)	jet morgan series #1: #1: pan books first p/b edition (1958), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Charles Chilton - The Red Planet (1963)	jet morgan series #2: #1: "journey into space" (1954), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th Aug 2024		Book Richard Hillary - The Last Enemy (1960)	entry in subtitle field is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted - not the, or even a, subtitle of this book, but the name given to this particular series of books published by pan books: the series title is also on the front covers of all the other books in the series, including: "eagle day'' richard collier; " the last enemy" richard hillary; "squadron airborne" elleston trevor; "full circle" air vice-marshal j. e. 'johnnie' johnson 6/-; "ginger lacey: fighter pilot" richard townshend bickers; "aircraft of the battle of britain" william green it is therefore not the - or even a - subtitle of any of these books.
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hand Of Cain (1975)	(?lancer or prestige?) magnum books imprint mmpb first printing, near-identical with lancer books mmpb second printing, retaining that edition's new cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaiaa cover price $1.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hand Of Cain (1973)	lancer books mmpb second printing, with new cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaiaa cover price $1.25 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hands Of Cain (1976)	n.b. no cat# of any kind, nor any sbn nor isbn: this is true of all uk five star p/bs, and strongly suggesting this was boxed out to their newsagents accounts by wholesalers, world distributors (manchester) (and possibly other newsagents wholesalers) and pretty soon thereafter remaindered, or else published as an instant remainder, there being no systematic way to order in initial stock, nor restocks, of any particular book published under this imprint by pbs ltd, victoria mills, pollard street, manchester m4 7au (uk)
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hands Of Cain (1976)	the date of this edition may require emendation to 1972/3 (or very closely thereunto); world distributors (manchester), with whom pbs ltd. seem to have had a very close relationship, ceased to distribute five star p/bs and started distributing their own ensign books p/bs in 1974.
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hands Of Cain (1976)	pbs ltd. five star imprint first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; appears to be shot-up detail of a probably pregiously-publishehd pb cover of ⅞ of an owl's head regarding the top third of a lightly-clad brown-haired young woman cover price 25p, (? 6/00s east africa, 60c south africa, 75c (possibly 70c) australia, 75c new zealand° ?) 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - not known to've been distributed through the book or wholesale news trades outwith the uk-of-gb-&-ni/ni+roi
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles In The Orient (1963)	may fair books armada books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2/6 160 blue edge-stained pp.° including 6 unnumbered pp. indicia, titles, a blank p., "the way the air force says it" (nf); no additional end pp. ° - the edge staining includes the edges of the card covers
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hand Of Cain (1967)	lancer books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaiaa cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Martin Thomas - The Hands Of Cain (1966)	mayflower books mayflower dell first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Dean McLaughlin - Dome World (1971)	fix-up of "the man on the bottom" (novelette, rewritten) astounding vol. lxi #1, 3/1958; astounding atlas bre vol.14 #6, 6/1958 and "my house in order" (previous appearance not so far traced; this may be the second half's original publication)
ppint. 23rd Aug 2024		Book Larry Niven - The Magic Goes Away (1978)	thank-you jimess.
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1989)	from 1958 through c. 1965-8, the new american library signet books mmpb was distributed in canada, mostly with canadian-printed carcases sharing merkin-printed covers of the near-identical more-or-less simultaneous merkin mmpb main printings. i do not know if the 1968 bantam mmpb edition, which saw at least four printings, or the 1974 ballantine books mmpb, which saw at least thirty-seven printings, saw distribution north of the parallel.
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1989)	general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik cover price $5.95 276pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, ended pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1969)	both bear the sbn, 330 10570 1, on the back cover, spine & in the indicia
ppint. 22nd Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1969)	pan books p/b near-identical third and fourth printings, both 1969°, with new cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaiaa as-yet unattributed cover price 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia publishing history adds line: 3rd printing 1969 and then adds line: 4th printing 1969 ° - no month of publication given in either
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1966)	pan books first printing, apparently first uk p/b edition, not first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6, 45c south africa, 6/- (60c) australia, 4/6 new zealand so this edition/printing should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea near-identical pan books p/b second printing (1967) retains cat#, cover art, uk cover price, differs: adds statement of second printing to indicia publishing history
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - Most Secret (1964)	pan books first printing, apparently first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6, australia 6/- so this edition/printing should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - On The Beach (1957)	william heinemann h/cvr first printing , first edition cover (d-j) art by john rowland (signed, credited for wrapper design on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 15/- 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - No Highway (1968)	classic novel of warning: what can go catastrophically wrong when industrial innovation is put into public service without adequate forethought or testing. six years after the publication of "no highway" (1948), the immensely successful - to that point - first ever jet airliner, the de havilland comet, suffered several catastrophic failures due to the "metal fatigue" phenomenon advanced as a potential major hazard by nevil shute in this novel - under his fuller name, nevil shute norway, he had worked at both de havilland and at vickers aircraft division, as well as having set up and running his own successful aircraft design, construction &c. company, airspeed ltd., whose "ambassador" twin engined civil aeroplane was produced for the r.a.f. and others as the successful advanced training & communications "airspeed oxford".
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts (1939)	the 1952 (& other 1950s (?)) printing bears a monochrome d-j printed mainly in grey (titles in white, i.e. left unprinted), d-j art is a picture of an aircraft carrier in heavy seas; uniform series design: series name, "the novels of", printed in black above author's name, then horizontal white line, then d-j art, then title. bound with endpapers between light blue cloth-covered boards. the 1960 through 1968 (at least) heinemann printings bear a full colour d-j, art by w. francis phillipps - william francis phillipps, probably most often credited as w. f. phillipps.
ppint. 21st Aug 2024		Book Nevil Shute - What Happened To The Corbetts (1988)	general mmpb first printing (check), probably first canadian p/b edition / first canadian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik of a ditched bristol beaufort, crew being rescued by the crew of a small yacht (? - one mast, two sails, triangular forward sail, main sail on a boom and gaff(?) extending the mast diagonally upward; tiller manned, no rudder visible at raked stern) cover price $4.95 224pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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