ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookJames White - Federation World (1988) | random penguin ballantine books del rey books simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by david b. mattingly (extremely partial signature, credited)
cover price $4.75 (prob'ly canadian-carcassed printing intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $3.50 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution)
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer also to the indicia publishing history to see if carcass/''book'' of copy held was canadian-carcassed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: june 1988
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookJames White - Federation World (1990) | fix-up of three already-published stories and two previously unpublished, with some revision:
federation world (novelette) analog (vol. c #8 or not stated), 8/1980
the scourge (novella) analog vol. cii #1, 1/1982
something of value short story) analog vol. cv #2, 2/1985
the silence (ntte) previously unpublished
the answer (nlla/short novel) previously unpublished
not necessarily up-fixed in the above order
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookJames White - Federation World (1990) | i've just read that the cover artist may have left.his initials in the painting - as an element of the art:
fish out + check!
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookPhyllis Eisenstein - Shadow Of Earth (1979) | bantam doubleday dell dell books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaik
cover price $2.25
336pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookJohn Lloyd - 1,342 Qi Facts (2016) | faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover art (none really: cover design by lee gibbons, part by andy spence design, part by jonathan paul green)
cover price £9.99
368pp. including xii pp. titles, indicia, introduction etc, 20 end pp. index, perfectbound with orange endpapers between laminated boards
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookFredric Brown - Daymares (1968) | contents:
gateway to darkness, in super science stories vol.6 #1, 11/1949 (#2: gateway to glory, amazing 10/1950)
daymare, in thrilling wonder stories vol. xxv #1, fall/1943
come and go mad, in weird tales vol. 41 #5, 7/1949
the angelic angleworm, in unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943
the star mouse, in planet stories vol.1 #10, 2/1942
honeymoon in hell, in galaxy vol.1 #2, 11/1950; the cover story + one b+w illustration both by don sibley
pi in the sky, in thrilling wonder stories vol. xxvi #3, 2/1945
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookFredric Brown - Rogue In Space (1978) | bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb third printing with new front cover typography, isbn
cover art by lou feck (signed, uncredited, retained from second printing)
cover price $1.75
168pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th May 2023 | | BookFredric Brown - Rogue In Space (1971) | bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb second printing with new
cover art by lou feck (signed, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
168pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookRick Raphael - The Thirst Quenchers (1966) | first published year date is wrong and should be corrected to 1965
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookRick Raphael - The Thirst Quenchers (1968) | first published year date is wrong and should be corrected to 1965.
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookRick Raphael - The Thirst Quenchers (1968) | contents:
the mailman cometh (analog vol. lxxiv #6, 2/1965; cover story, art, 3 b+w illustrations by walter hortens)
guttersnipe (analog vol. lxxiv #3, 11/1964, one b+w illustration by john schoenherr)
the thirst quenchers (analog vol. lxxii #1 9/1963, five b+w illustrations by george schelling)
odd man in (apparently original to the collection)
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookRick Raphael - The Thirst Quenchers (1965) | victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first edition
so first published year date is wrong and should be corrected to 1965
one part original, three parts reprint collection of four novelettes
cover (d-j) art (none: typographical design in magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field with zigzags)
cover (d-j) price 15/-
176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookBasil Dawson - Dan Dare On Mars (1956) | Reviewthe story is both unique - neither a novelisation of, nor turned into one of the fourteen-or-so novel length dan dare cartoon/comic stories told over a year or longer in eagle comic - and it is incompatible with the canonical dan dare mars, as detailed in the second eagle comic dan dare story, ''dan dare: the red moon mystery'' (serialised in eagle comic 5/10/1951-20/6/1952, also collected as a graphic novel (dragon's dream 1979).
it is set in 2002 in the dan dare future, after ''operation saturn'', which basil dawson wrote some of, under the pen-name of don riley, when frank hampson collapsed through overwork, and before ''prisoners of space'', but the novel wasn't published until dan & co. were on cryptos, towards halfway through the longest and greatest of the comic's stories, ''the man from nowhere'' and ''rogue planet'', by which time i suspect the readership had grown up with dan dare and his colleagues, and the well-developed vision of this future, sufficiently to expect a novel presenting altogether more substantial a story, with significantly greater depth of thought than this ''fair, but unambitious'' mystery adventure.
(tbc: plot hook / set-up to be composed and added; but there's a bus or two to be caught soon, and some shopping to be done...)
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ppint. 11th May 2023 | | BookFleur Adcock - The Faber Book Of 20th Century Women's Poetry (1987) | the poets from whose work selections are included:
(dates as given in 1987)
charlotte mew (1869-1928)
mary ursula bethell (1874-1945)
anna wickham (1884-1947)
elinor wylie (1885-1928)
frances cornford (1886-1960)
h. d. (hilda doolittle) (1886-1961)
elizabeth darryush (1887-1977)
marianne moore (1887-1972)
edith sitwell (1887-1964)
edna st vincent millay (1892-1950)
sylvia townsend warner (1893-1978)
louise bogan (1897-1970)
ruth pitter (1897- )
frances bellerby (1899-1975)
stevie smith (1902-1971)
lorine niedecker (1903-1970)
robin hyde (1906-1979) (one excerpt only)
e. j. scovell (1907- )
elizabeth bishop (1911-1979)
josephine miles (1911-1985)
muriel rukeyser (1913-1980)
judith wright (1915- )
gwendolyn brooks (1917- )
p. k. page (1917- )
margaret avison (1918- )
elma mitchell (1919- )
may swenson (1919- )
amy clampitt (1920- )
rosemary dobson (1920- )
barbara guest (1920- )
gwen harwood (1920- )
denise levertov (1923- )
elizabeth bartlett (1924- )
patricia beer (1924- )
jane cooper (1924- )
lauris edmond (1924- )
maxine kumin (1925- )
elizabeth jennings (1926- )
anne szumighalski (1926- )
molly holden (1927-1981)
connie bensley (1929- )
freda downie (1929- )
u. a. fanthorpe (1929- )
adrienne rich (1929- )
elaine feinstein (1930- )
jenny joseph (1932- )
sylvia plath (1932-1963)
anne stevenson (1933- )
fleur adcock (1934- )
jean valentine (1934- )
june jordan (1936- )
judith rodriguez (1936- )
gillian clarke (1937- )
margaret atwood (1939- )
gwendolyn macewen (1941- )
eiléan ni chuilleanáin (1942- )
tess gallegher (1943- )
louise glück (1943- )
sandra mcpherson (1943- )
ellen bryant voight (1943- )
carol rumens (1944- )
eavan boland (1945- )
wendy cope (1945- )
selima hill (1945- )
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ppint. 9th May 2023 | | BookEdgar Rice Burroughs - Tanar Of Pellucidar (1969) | ace books mmpb third printing
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ppint. 8th May 2023 | | BookIsaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows (1964) | j. m. dent & sons readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
collection of six short stories, two novelettes and a novella, and two poems
cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited on d-j flap (check); a blob variant in yellow on white)
cover (d-j) price c. 7/- or 7/6d. including 1s. postage
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 8th May 2023 | | BookRobert A. Wise - 12 To The Moon (1961) | john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited still as-yet unattributed sfaik
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 7th May 2023 | | BookJames White - Dark Inferno (1974) | transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
dedication: to james j. daly in appreciation
cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed
cover price 30p, 95c australia (recommended), $1.00 new zealand
160pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising, second of which is stocklist dated 2/74
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ppint. 7th May 2023 | | BookJames White - Dark Inferno (1972) | michael joseph first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by beverl(e)y le barrow (unsigned, credited without the third e on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £1.75
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 7th May 2023 | | BookPoul Anderson - Time And Stars (1965) | phoenix house science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
for sale only to members of the phoenix house science fiction book club, by mail-order,
initially on subscription, and later as an option
contents follow those of the victor gollancz h/cvr first uk edition
title is given as ''time & stars'' on d-j front, but in full on title page
dedication: to anne elisabeth hertz ''fikke''
cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap; an incarnation of the blob + 4 ''stars'')
cover (d-j) price 7/6. including 1s. postage & packing = 6/6d. in theory, but only sold mail-order
216pp. including 10 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between grey cloth-covered boards, titles, author, sfbc & cat# in blue on spine
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ppint. 7th May 2023 | | BookPoul Anderson - Time And Stars (1964) | victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first thus (drops final story from doubleday merkin h/cvr edition)
reprint collection of two novellas, two novelettes and a short story
cover (d-j) art (none: magenta and black typography on a ''gollancz yellow'' field, with black zigzags)
cover (d-j) price 16/-
216pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 6th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Burn, Witch, Burn!/Creep, Shadow, Creep! (1996) | nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, first omnibus edition sfaiaa
cover art (none: typographical cover on black field)
cover price $5.99
400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
cover bears a fake isbn: 0843939443; if it were a legitimate isbn the checksum digit would be ''9''.
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ppint. 6th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Burn, Witch, Burn! (1963) | transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition (which was a pedigree book)
cover art unsigned, uncredited (still as-yet unattributed: it could well be by josh kirby, as it's within one of his styles of the period, and he did a fair few covers for corgi books in the early-to-mid sixties, but this is not a firm attribution)
cover price 2/6
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 6th May 2023 | | BookE. R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros (1922) | jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by keith henderson
interior b+w illustrations also by keith henderson
cover (d-j) price 15/-
464pp. (check) including xiv pp. titles, indicia etc, appendix, bound with endpapers between covered boards
n.b. the existence of a 1924 binding of the remaining 1922 signatures with updated publishing history by jonathan cape, cover price 7/6d. (this is reported, but not as-yet seen by yr hmbl srppnt.)
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ppint. 6th May 2023 | | BookE. R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros (1972) | possibly intext group (check) ballantine books imprint mmpb sixth merkin printing
accounting does not include canadian-carcassed printings, nor the 8/1970 canadian-carcassed ballantine books uk p/b
cover art by barbara remington
interior b+w illustrations by keith henderson
cover price $1.25
c. 544pp. (check) including titles, indicia, two nf introductions etc, end pp.
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ppint. 5th May 2023 | | BookE. R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros (1973) | pan books pan/ballantine imprint p/b second printing (1972)
(which accounting includes ballantine books ltd. uk 8/1970 (misstated as ''1971'') first printing)
cover art by barbara remington (retained from ballantine books uk p/b)
b+w interior illustrations by keith henderson
(i)sbn (0-)345-09740-8
cover price 50p, R1.25 south africa, $1.55 australia, $1.55 new zealand
544pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introductions, etc. end pp.
bears new (i)sbn replacing the ballantine books ltd. uk p/b edition sbn
indicia publishing history states reprinted 1972
distinguish from near-identical third printing by reference to the indicia publishing history which adds the further line, reprinted 1973, and new pan books group
isbn 0-330-23841-8
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ppint. 5th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Seven Footprints To Satan (1942) | american news company (anc) avon book company new avon library p/b first printings°
an avon mystery
cover art unsigned, uncredited colour artwork
interior b+w illustrations (woodcuts) by howard simon (unsigned, possibly credited)
cover price (none; newsstand p/bs were presumed to be 25¢ unless elsewise stated)
320pp. including titles, indicia, b+w illustrations etc., end pp. advertising
° - there were five near-identical printings of the book 1942-1945 according to the hearst corporation avon books mmpb ninth printing's indicia publishing history; it is not stated that this includes or excludes the avon monthly murder digest (iiuc) p/b edition.
the signal differences between the printings are the rising number in the listing of other titles in the avon books series in the end advertising pp.
i do not know whether the number of b+w illustrations from howard simon's woodcuts is the same in all five printings, nor that the extent of the edition was maintained
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ppint. 5th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Seven Footprints To Satan (1949) | avon pocket size books avon books sixth printing
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 25¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ordinal printing number and date taken from the ninth printing's indicia
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ppint. 5th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Seven Footprints To Satan (1955) | avon books undated mmpb fourth printing
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 5th May 2023 | | BookA. Merritt - Seven Footprints To Satan (1957) | avon books mmpb undated eighth printing
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 35¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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