ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookCharles 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookCharles 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookCharles 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers Anthony - Phthor (1978) | chthon/aton tetralogy #2
#1: ''chthon'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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)
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 3rd May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookStephen 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. . .
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookStephen 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookStephen 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.
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookFrederik 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookFrederik 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookFleur Adcock - The Faber Book Of 20th Century Women's Poetry (1987) | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookKeith 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
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ppint. 1st May 2023 | | BookFleur 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.
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ppint. 30th Apr 2023 | | BookArthur 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
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookJames 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.
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookJames 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.
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookHal 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
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. 29th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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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