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ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1993)	strange seed series #1: #1: ''strange seed'' (1978), (this novel) #2: ''nursery tale'' (1982), q.v. #3: ''the children of the island'' (1983), q.v. #4: ''the people of the dark'' (1985), q.v. #5: ''earthmun'' (1995), q.v. aka ''laughing man'' (mmpb 2003), q.v.
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1993)	cassell plc victor gollancz p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by danny flynn cover price £4.99 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1987)	tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by hector garrido canadian isbn 0-812-52763-1 cover price $4.95 canada cover price $3.95 u.s. 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book James Tiptree Jr. - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1989)	hugo and nebula awards-winning novella originally published in ''aurora: beyond equality'' eds. susan janice anderson, vonda n. mcintyre (1976), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book James Tiptree Jr. - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1989)	tor books mmpb first printing, first thus (first independently-titled book publication) half a ''tor double'' with two front covers, contents all printed same way up states tor double #11 on primary front cover in chief, bar-code on secondary cover cover art by ron walotsky (unsigned, credited) isbn 0-812-50078-4 canada cover price $4.50 canada cover price $3.50 u.s. ½ 176pp. (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc. doubled with ''souls'' joanna russ (1989), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - Souls (1989)	hugo and locus award-winning novella, originally published in f&sf vol.62 #1, 1/1982
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - Souls (1989)	tor books mmpb first printing, first thus (first independently-titled book edition) half a tor double with two front covers (these & contents bound same way up) stated tor double novel #11 on t'other side's cover in chief cover art by dieter rottermund (unsigned, credited) isbn 0-812-50087-4 canada cover price $4.50 canada cover price $3.50 u.s. ½ 176pp. (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc. doubled with ''houston, houston, do you read?'' james tiptree, jr. (1989), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Hidden Side Of The Moon (1989)	contents: the little dirty girl (novelette) in ''elsewhere vol. II'' eds. terri windling, mark arnold (1982), q.v. sword blades and poppy seed (short story) in ''heroic visions'' ed. jessica amanda salmonson (1983), q.v. main street: 1953 (ss) sinister wisdom #24, fall/1983 how dorothy kept away the spring (ss) f&sf vol.52 #2, 2/1977 this afternoon (ss) cimarron review #6, 2/1968 this night, at my fire (ss) epoch vol.xv #2, winter/1966 ''i had vacantly crumpled it in my pocket ... but by god, eliot, it was a photograph from life!'' (ss) f&sf vol.27 #2, 8/1964 a cthulhu mythos story come closer (ss) magazine of horror vol.2 #4, 8/1965 it's important to believe (ss) sinister wisdom #14, 1980 mr. wilde's second chance (ss) f&sf vol.31 #3, 9/1966 window dressing (ss) in ''new worlds of fantasy #2'' ed. terry carr (1970), q.v. existence (ss) in ''epoch'' eds. robert silverberg, roger elwood (1975), q.v. foul fowl (ss) the little magazine vol.5 #1, 1971 a short and happy life (ss) f&sf vol.36 #6, 6/1969 the throaways (ss) consumption vol.2 #3, summer/1969 (mayn't the title have had another ''w'' ?) the cliches from outer space (ss) women's studies international forum vol.7 #2, 1984 elf hill (ss) f&sf vol.63 #5, 11/1982 nor custom stale (ss) f&sf vol.19 #3, 9/1959; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #5, 4/1960 the experimenter (ntte) galaxy vol.36 #9, 10/1975, with two b+w illustrations by freff (conor freff cochran) reasonable people (ss) in ''orbit 14'' ed. damon knight (1974), q.v. life in a furniture store (ss) epoch vol. xv #1, fall/1965 the view from this window (ntte) in ''quark/#1'' eds. marilyn hacker, samuel r. delany (1970), q.v. old pictures (nf) ©1987 possibly original to this collection visiting (ss) manhattan review, fall/1967 visiting day (ss) south vol.2 #1, 1970 old thoughts, old presences (ss intro) in ''the zanzibar cat'' , 1985? cover title for two short stories: the autobiography of my mother (ss) epoch vol. xxv #1, fall/1975 daddy's girl (ss) epoch vol. xxiv #2, spring 1975; ''new worlds 9'' ed. hilary bailey (11/1975), q.v. n.b. the volume numbers for these two issues of epoch seem potentially mutually exclusive
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Hidden Side Of The Moon (1989)	the namara group the women's press p/b first printing, first uk edition, first general p/b edition reprint collection of twenty-three short stories and three novelettes cover art by judith clute (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £4.95 232pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Zanzibar Cat (1984)	drops a novelette and two short stories, from the arkham house h/cvr first edition of this collection: how dorothy kept away the spring (short story) f&sf vol.52 #2, 2/1977 poor man, beggar man (novelette) in ''universe 1'' ed. terry carr (1971), q.v. old thoughts, old presences (ss) (original to the arkham house collection (1975); the two short stories are re-collected in ''the hidden side of the moon'' joanna russ (1988), q.v. the novelette was reprinted in the anthology, ''nebula award stories 7'' ed. lloyd biggle jr. (1972 & ff.), q.v. ''old thoughts, old presences'' is, and is sometimes also indexed as, the cover title for two individually-titled short stories: ''the autobiography of my mother'' & ''daddy's girl''
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Adventures Of Alyx (1985)	this collection does not include the alyx short story, ''a game of vlet'' (f&sf vol.46 #2, 2/1974) this is collected in ''the zanzibar cat'' joanna russ (1983), q.v. it was also anthologised in ''pawn to infinity'' eds. fred saberhagen, joan saberhagen (1982), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Keith Roberts - Pavane (1970)	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition contents follow those of the rupert hart-davis first edition h/cvr (london 1968) cover art by brian edwards (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 6/- (30p), 75c south africa, 95c australia, 85c new zealand, 95c canada 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Michael Moorcock - The Oak And The Ram (1973)	allison & busby h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by keith roberts (signed; i didn't note if credited on d-j flap), the artist is also author, q.v. cover (d-j) price £2.25 168pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Two To Conquer (1982)	hutchinson publishing group arrow books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''ultraterranium'' bruce pennington (1992), q.v.) cover price £1.75 (no other prices) 340pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2017)	darkover series #3: #1: ''darkover landfall'' marion zimmer bradley (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. sequel to #2: ''stormqueen!'' marion zimmer bradley (1978), q.v.
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2017)	daw books mmpb-format p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art by matthew stawicki (credited, retained from daw books h/cvr first edition d-j) cover price $7.99 (c. $9.99 canada (check)) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 1720 420pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc; end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2016)	daw books h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with ebook cover (d-j) art by matthew stawicki (credited) cover (d-j) price $27.00 (c.$39 canada (check)) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 1720 412pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, quarter-bound with endpapers between paper-covered boards written by deborah j. ross, based upon title and notes - apparently not as substantial as an outline - of marion zimmer bradley's; mzb died in 1999
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1980)	playboy press mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; may be by hector garrido but this is not a firm attribution cover price $2.25 248pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book J. T. McIntosh - Time For A Change (1967)	michael joseph ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover d-j art by c. andrews cover d-j price 25s. 184pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book J. T. McIntosh - Time For A Change (1969)	serialised as ''snow white and the giants'' in if vol.16 #10, 11, 12, vol.17 #1; 10, 11, 12/1967, 1/1968 each part with one b+w illustration by jack gaughan
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book E. C. Tubb - Child Of Earth (2008)	homeward press tp/b first printing, first edition reported to've been a 1,000 copy print-run, but mayn't've been a formally limited edition earl dumarest of terra series #33: #1: ''the winds of gath'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links. cover art by douglas klauber (signed dk2008, credited) cover price $14.95 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, introduction (nf) chris bentley, etc, end pp.
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Rick Raphael - Code Three (Novelette) (2006)	this print-on-demand publication containing only the title novelette should be differentiated from the novel by the varying of its title to ''code three (novelette)''; this will prevent the two being sorted incorrectly together by bookcat as identical, which they are not.
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - The Avon Ghost Reader (1946)	author field should^W has been be varied to editor
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - The Avon Ghost Reader (1946)	contents: introduction (nf) h.w. (presumed to be herbert williams) the dunwich horror (novelette) h. p. lovecraft, weird tales vol. xiii #4, 4/1929 cthulhu mythos the panelled room (short story) august derleth, the westminster mafazine 9/1933 the fireplace (ss) henry s. whitehead, weird tales vol. v #1, 1/1925; repr. in vol. xxv #2, 2/1935 the haunted doll's house (ss) m. r. james, 1923; tyopped/mispelynge of ''the haunted dolls' house'' the squaw (ss) bram stoker, holly leaves 2/12/1893 (annual christmas issue of illustrated sporting & dramatics news) wingless victory (ntte) h. f. heard, in ''the great fog'' h. f. heard (1944), gerald heard (uk 1947), qq.v. through the dragon glass (ss) a. merritt, all-story weekly 24/11/1917; self-titled (24pp. chapbook 1932); fantastic novels vol.1 #2, 9/1940 naked lady (ss) mindret lord, weird tales vol. xxiv #3, 9/1934 the curious case of benjamin button (ntte) f. scott fitzgerald, collier's 27/5/1922 bottle party (ss) john collier, esquire 1st/10/1939 by the waters of babylon (ss) stephen vincent benét, the saturday evening post 31/7/1937, as ''the place of the gods'' the salamander (ss) william f. seabrook, the english review vol.35, 11/1922; reprinted in story magazine vol. xxiv #10 3-4/1944
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - The Avon Ghost Reader (1946)	anc avon book company new avon library first printing, first edition reprint anthology of nine short stories and three novelettes, nf introduction by h.w. assumed to be herbert williams cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price (none: mmpbs were then presumed to be 25¢ unless elsewise stated) 256pp. including titles, indicia, acknowledgments etc, end pp. sometimes seen accounted as 260pp, which includes inside & outside front & back covers
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - Terror At Night (1947)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - Terror At Night (1947)	contents: introduction (nf) herbert williams the haunter of the dark (novelette) h. p. lovecraft, weird tales vol. xxviii #5, 12/1936 (cthulhu mythos) the judge's house (short story) bram stoker, the illustrated sporting & dramatic's life christmas annual, holly leaves 5/12/1891 the interruption (ss) w. w. jacobs, the strand 11/1925; non-fantastic the black courtyard (ss) thomas burke, in ''night-pieces'' thomas burke (1935), q.v. the seventeenth hole at duncaster (ss) h. russell wakefield, in ''they return at evening'' h. r. wakefield (1928), q.v. the second generation (ss) algernon blackwood, the westminster gazette 6/7/1912 the phantom bus (ss) w. elwyn backus, weird tales vol. xvi #3, 9/1930 change (ss) arthur machen, in ''the children of the pool'' arthur machen (1936), q.v. the left eye (ss) henry s. whitehead, weird tales vol. ix #6, 6/1927 a watcher by the dead (ss) ambrose bierce, the san francisco examiner 29/12/1889 the two bottles of relish (ss) lord dunsany, time & tide 11/12/1932 without the ''the''; non-fantastic lost hearts (ss) m. r. james, the pall mall magazine 12/1895 caterpillars (ss) e. f. benson, in ''the room in the towers'' e. f. benson (1912), q.v.
ppint. 14th May 2023		Book Herbert Williams - Terror At Night (1947)	anc avon book co. new avon library first printing, first edition reprint anthology of twelve short stories and a novelette, with introduction by the editor cover art by george mayers (signed, uncredited) cover price (none: at this time mmpbs were presumed to be 25¢ retail unless elsewise stated) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (may've included inside and outside covers; check)
ppint. 13th May 2023		Book Francine Wenzell - Must I Die? (1959)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition possibly first uk edition cover art by gilbert a. fullington (re-used from ''gang girl'' wenzell brown (avon books 560 (1954) mmpb q.v., where the signature GAF is visible) cover price 2/- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising this digit books imprint uk p/b looks as though it may well be a retitling of the avon books mmpb published under a clever plastic pseudonym - but i do *not* possess the two texts, to compare them. i am not aware of anyone having done so.
ppint. 13th May 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Defiance (2023)	cover (d-j) art is slated to be by todd lockwood (signed, doubtless will be credited)

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