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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)
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book James Blish - A Case Of Conscience (1959)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) first printing, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by peter curl cover (d-j) price 15/- 208pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Apr 2023		Book James Blish - A Case Of Conscience (1958)	ballantine books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed from jane frank) cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 printing, neither states publication month
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Andrew M. Stephenson - The Wall Of Years (1980)	if this is indeed only slightly expanded, it must've been re-set in a significantly larger point size than the uk first edition. yr hmbl srppnt. does not know of any textual comparison having been made - - save, presumédly, by andrew stephenson. andrew's made explicit his firm and considered decision to not continue writing professionally, when asked by people who've enjoyed his two novels and asked him if he was still writing; a bare handful of shorter-length stories - three short stories and two novelettes - and the text for the graphic novel, ''waterloo sunset'' andrew stephenson, trevor goring (2006), q.v., complete his published written work. wearing the derived pseudonym of ''ames'' (from his full name's initials, ''andrew michael stephenson''), he is and was also a fine - as well as a fan - sf artist, though somewhat diffident about this, too, when asked. he drew the interior illustrations for "(the) inverted world" by christopher priest (1970), q.v.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Andrew M. Stephenson - The Wall Of Years (1980)	bantam doubleday dell group dell books imprint mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $2.75 432pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Andrew M. Stephenson - The Wall Of Years (1979)	futura publications futura books imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art by brian lewis (unsigned, credited) cover price £1.25, $3.95 australia, $3.85 new zealand 384pp. (check) including title, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Andrew M. Stephenson - Nightwatch (1977)	futura publications p/b first printing, first edition cover art by peter andrew jones (painting may be signed paj, uncredited; collected in ''solar wind'' peter jones (1980), q.v.) cover price 85p (overseas territories' prices?) 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Andrew M. Stephenson - Nightwatch (1979)	dell books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art by wayne barlowe (signed with his stylised initials in a box, uncredited) cover price $1.95 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Hans Stefan Santesson - Flying Saucers In Fact And Fiction (1968)	lancer books mmpb first printing, apparently first edition reprint anthology of eight short stories, two novelettes, three nf articles and a poem, introduction by the editor cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic cover price 75¢ 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Lester Del Rey - Mortals And Monsters (1965)	ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of eleven short stories and a novelette cover art by richard powers (signed, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book Jack Hanley - Thrill Girl (1951)	contents of author field and pen-name field should^W have been swapped: the pen-name is the invented name on the book front cover.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book John W. Jennison - Supercar On The Black Diamond Trail (1965)	hence use of the word, ''also''.
ppint. 28th Apr 2023		Book TV Tornado Annual (1971) - World Distributors (1970)	the correct sbn is 723500878 (that given on the cover has an incorrect checksum digit). the sbn is the precise precursor to the isbn: when the system was expanded to incorporate non-english language, and non- yuk-of-gb-&-nironian publishers, the sbn of a still in-print edition could be incorporated into the new system by prepending a ''0'', indicating an english language book, and the numerical value of which did not change the checksum digit calculation. the isbn system being by design fully compatible with and interoperative with the sbn system, there is no earthly reason not to give sbns where these exist in the isbn10 field, making these traceable in bookcat.

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