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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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