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ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Charles Platt - Soma (1989)	new american library signet books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jeffrey knight potter (signed jk, uncredited) cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95 230pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Charles Platt - Plasm (1988)	collins group grafton books first printing, first uk edition cover art by luis rey (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand 240pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month not given, taken from locus
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Charles Platt - Plasm (1987)	new american library signet books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jeffrey knight potter (signed jk, uncredited) cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1972)	the world(s) of chthon/aton tetralogy #1: #1: ''chthon'' (1967), (this novel) #2: ''phthor'' (1975), q.v. followed by two novels written by charles platt: #3: ''plasm'' (1987), q.v. #4: ''soma'' (1989), q.v.
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Phthor (1978)	chthon/aton tetralogy #2 #1: ''chthon'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Phthor (1978)	granada publishing ltd. panther books p/b first printing, first uk edition piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art by alan morgan (signed am, uncredited, attributed entitled ''pinnasaurus'' in ''aliens in space'' steven caldwell (1979), q.v.) cover price 85p, $2.95 australia, $2.75 new zealand, $2.50 canada 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from wm collins sons/collins group grafton books panther imprint near-identical second printing, which adds the line, reprinted 1986, cover price £2.40, $9.95 australia, $6.95 new zealand
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Phthor (1975)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art by richard powers (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 204pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1986)	this is the last uk p/b edition of which i'm aware; severn house appear to've published a uk h/cvr edition under the title, ''earth'', in 1996, but though yr hmbl srppnt. has (some of) the data for this edition, i didn't stock it and have never even seen a copy - let alone've ever held and examined one. if adding ''earth'' by piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as ''piers anthony'' as a bookcat item, please include ''chthon'' in the english title field: this will allow bookcat to sort it correctly together with all of these editions. thank-you. ppint.
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1986)	wm collins sons/collins group grafton imprint p/b first printing, 1972 panther books setting third printing piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art by michael ''mike'' mcinnerney (retained from 1972 panther books first printing, cover re-design retained from 1983 granada imprint p/b) cover price £2.50, $7.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (including for panther books p/bs)
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1983)	granada publishing p/b second printing with new typography on new red- & yellow- banded cover design piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art by michael ''mike'' mcinnerney (retained from panther books p/b first printing) cover price £1.50, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising statements of panther books and references in advertisements to panther books remain in the book
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1972)	granada publishing panther books ltd. first printing, first uk p/b edition, not first p/b edition piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art by michael (mike) mcinnerney (my attribution on stylistic grounds) cover price 35p, 85c south africa, $3.50 singapore, $1.10 australia & new zealand, $1.25 canada° 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - it seems a little unlikely that canadian p/b or volume rights were available to granada publishing
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1970)	macdonald & co. (publishers) ltd. first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited line drawing on block letters sf of series uniform design) cover (d-j) price £1.40 28/- 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 3rd May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Chthon (1967)	ballantine books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition by piers anthony dillingham jacob writing as piers anthony cover art unsigned, uncredited, looks at least partly photographic; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 75¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass/''book'' of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first us edition: july, 1967
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Stephen Goldin - Mindflight (1982)	sequel is ''mindsearch'' (2009) (2002 ebook), q.v. - but happy hamlyn paperbacks had long since been trashed by then - as had the legend imprint, into which the remnants of its - ''my!'' - sf & f list had been folded, and rebranded. . .
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Stephen Goldin - Mindflight (1982)	reed international/hamlyn publishing group. hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price £1.35, $3.95 australia 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Stephen Goldin - Mind Flight (1978)	fawcett gold medal imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by paul lehr (signed lehr, uncredited) cover price $1.75 224pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Seventh Galaxy Reader (1966)	contents: introduction (nf) frederik pohl for love (novelette) algis budrys, vol.20 #5, 6/1962; t&p bre #92 come into my cellar (ss) ray bradbury, vol.21 #1, 10/1962; t&p bre #94; aka ''boys! raise giant mushrooms in your cellar!'' the tail-tied kings (ss) avram davidson, vol.20 #4, 4/1962; t&p bre #91 crime machine (ss) robert bloch, vol.20 #1, 10/1961; t&p bre #88 return engagement (ss) lester del rey, vol.19 #6, 8/1961; t&p bre #87 earthmen bearing gifts (ss) fredric brown, vol.18 #5, 6/1960; bre #80 rainbird (ss) r. a. lafferty, vol.20 #2, 12/1961 three portraits and a prayer (ss) frederik pohl, vol.20 #6, 8/1962; t&p pbre. #93 something bright (ss) zenna henderson, vol.18 #3, 2/1960; bre. #78; both: a b+w illustration by the dillons on the gem planet (ntte) cordwainer smith, vol.22 #1, 10/1963; cover story, art by richard mckenna (artist: not the author) (wrongly credited to dember); the first casher o'neil story the deep down dragon (ss) judith merril, vol.19 #6, 8/1961; bre #87; both: cover story, art by ed emshwiller the king of the city (ntte) keith laumer, vol.19 #6, 8/1961, bre #87; both: two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay the beat cluster (ss) fritz leiber, vol.20 #1, 10/1961; bre #88; both: cover story, art by virgil finlay an old fashioned bird christmas (ntte) margaret st. clair, vol.20 #2, 11/1961 the big pat boom (ss) damon knight, vol.22 #2, 12/1963
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Seventh Galaxy Reader (1966)	possibly last phoenix house, possibly first j. m. dent-owned readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr printing, not first uk h/cvr edition; for sale to sfbc members by mail on a subscription basis, later as an option to members of associated book clubs cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (yet another positional, colour & fractional variant upon ''the blob'') cover (d-j) price 248pp? (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. bound with endpapers between brown cloth-covered boards, title, editor &c. printed on spine in black; blob, titles, cat# etc. on white paper of d-j in orange
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Omnivore (1968)	of man and manta trilogy #1: #1: ''omnivore'' piers anthony dillingham jacob as ''piers anthony'' (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Omnivore (1968)	ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 75¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising © 1968 piers a. d. jacob
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Fleur Adcock - The Faber Book Of 20th Century Women's Poetry (1987)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Keith Roberts - Anita (1976)	millington books first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (dig it out and check - it doesn't look like any of keith's styles i remember) cover (d-j) price £3.50 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 1st May 2023		Book Fleur Adcock - The Faber Book Of 20th Century Women's Poetry (1987)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) tp/b first printing, first edition refer to indica publishing history to distinguish between at least eight printings; eighth printing undated, indicated by printing number line 8 10 9 a reprint anthology of two hundred and twenty-five poems° by sixty-four poets writing in english ° five are extracts or excerpts from longer poems cover art (unsigned, uncredited line drawing of a hand holding a pen as though writing) cover price £7.99, $12.95 us, $16.99 canada including 18 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, 11pp. table-of-contents etc; 15pp. introduction by fleur adcock; 30 end pp: 9pp. biographical notes, 4pp. index of titles, 7pp. index of first lines, 6pp. acknowledgements, 4 blank pp.
ppint. 30th Apr 2023		Book Arthur Wilson Tucker - The Long Loud Silence (1980)	hodder & stoughton coronet imprint p/b first printing, first uk general p/b, not first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited save for cover design credit to david cox studios cover price 85p (overseas territories' prices ? - check) 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Demon Breed (1971)	j. m. dent readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first h/cvr edition for sale only to members of the book club by mail order on a subscription basis, later as an option to members of the other readers union group book clubs cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited, the b+w art may be by terry james who did ~#160-#170) cover (d-j) price 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards did not receive a 5000 series cat# in david & charles' renumbering, so had sold out by 12/1972.
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Demon Breed (1969)	macdonald & co. (publishers) first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited line drawing on the block letter sf of the standard design) cover (d-j) price 21/- (£1.05) 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards number-string in the isbn10 field is the sbn actually borne on the d-j back; an isbn is trivially derivable from the sbn, but the book bears none such.
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book Hal Clement - Small Changes (1969)	doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint collection of three novelettes and six short stories cover (d-j) art by richard kapolka (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover price $4.95 232pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Var The Stick (1972)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) first h/cvr printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned restricted palette - black on red - of parts of two crossed grainy, curving sticks) cover (d-j) price £1.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Sos The Rope (1968)	pyramid books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Sos The Rope (1975)	serialised in f&sf vol.35 #1, #2, #3; 7/1968, 8/1968, 9/1968 part one is the cover story, art by jack gaughan, no b+w illustrations (f&sf mostly didn't)

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