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ppint. 24th Apr 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Red Planet (1963)	victor gollancz first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by alan breese (restricted palette: black line on red ground; yellow main typography) interior b+w art by clifford geary cover (d-j) price 12/6 216pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between covered boards distinguish from at least three further impressions by reference to indicia publishing history; d-j price also rises, sometimes by new price in black on victor gollancz white label over old price.
ppint. 24th Apr 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Red Planet (1972)	(possibly grosset & dunlap) charter communications, inc. ace books imprint undated° mmpb second printing cover art by steele savage (signed, credited, retained from first ace mmpb printing) b+w frontispiece by clifford geary (unsigned, credited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising bearing nos. 32, 33, 17A°° in very small print ° - printing date from stuart wells, which fits in with the °° - titles advertised on these pp. - and seems to be the only visible difference from the first printing
ppint. 24th Apr 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Red Planet (1971)	charter communications, inc. ace books imprint mmpb undated° first printing, first mmpb edition cover art by steele savage (signed, credited) b+w frontispiece by clifford geary (unsigned, credited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising bearing id. nos. 8, 14 & 17 in very small type°° ° - year date from stuart wells, fits in with the titles advertised on these end pages °° - this is the only visible distinguishing difference from the near-identical second printing
ppint. 24th Apr 2023		Book Richard A. Lupoff - Space War Blues (1978)	bantam doubleday dell dell books imprint simultaneous first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by george barr (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.95 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing---june 1978
ppint. 24th Apr 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Technicolor® Time Machine (1976)	futura publications ltd. first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by paul lehr (re-used, reversed l-r from ''the moon is a harsh mistress'' robert a. heinlein (berkley medallion mmpb (1968), q.v., where it is clearly signed ''lehr'') cover price 60p (overseas territories' prices? dig out and check) 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. the superscript ® in the title does not appear on the front cover, but is present on the title page.
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (1990)	houghton mifflin victor gollancz vgsf imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by jim burns (unsigned, uncredited, collected in ''lightship'' jim burns (1986), q.v.) cover price £3.50 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given; taken from locus
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (1978)	fix-up of the urban monad series of stories: a happy day in 2381 (short story) in ''nova 1'' ed. harry harrison (1970), q.v. in the beginning (ss) in ''science against man'' ed. anthony cheetham (1970), q.v. all the way up, all the way down (novelette) galaxy vol.32 #1, 7-8/1971 the throwbacks (ntte) galaxy vol.30 #4, 7/1970; bre vol.30 #4, 8/1970 we are well organized (first part ntte) galaxy vol.31 #1, 12/1970 the world outside (novella) galaxy vol.30 #6, 10/1970, cover story, art by jack gaughan we are well organized (remaining part ntte) ibid. 12/1970
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (1978)	granada publishing group panther books imprint first p/b printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by colin hay (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 75p, $2.50. australia, $2.50 new zealand, $2.25 canada° 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - it seems a little unlikely that canadian p/b rights were available to the granada publishing group
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (1977)	millington books first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first uk edition° cover (d-j) art by dave austin (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price £3.50 186pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards ° - the originally-planned publication date may very well have been the previous year, as it's stated in the indicia publishing history that first british publication was 1976
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (1972)	new american library signet books imprint apparently non-simultaneous° first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from sci-fi-o-rama.com/2010/03/12/dean-ellis) cover price 95¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed: and to distinguish from near-identical undated second printing by number line, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ° - apparent priority established, wholly merkin-printed copies state first printing, september, 1972 canadian-carcassed copies state first printing, august, 1974 - which separation in time seems a trifle unlikely. . .°° (°° - if a canadian-carcassed copy of the 9/1972 first printing surfaces, all will be explained - the 8/1974 declared first canadian printing would in due course have been followed by a fourth by printing number line wholly merkin-printed variant - had a further printing been required for general distribution during the lifetime of new american library's licence to the north american p/b rights.)
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book Russell Davies - Brain Of Britain Ultimate Quiz Book (2017)	harpercollins publishers° collins imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition westerhill road, bishopbriggs glasgow g64 2qt cover art unsigned, uncredited design in red & grey of images suggesting superimposed human neural nets, circular blobs where lines in either net meet, above title; bbc radio 4 logo above this, top fly corner cover price £12.99, can(ada) $28.99 352pp. including 3pp. titles, indica, table-of-contents, 22pp. uncredited nf introduction, 1p. a note on the questions; 17 end pp: 10pp. appendix, ''the strange story of ''john p. wynn'', 3pp. acknowledgements, perfectbound with endpapers onto flexible backing strip, between plastic/plasticised paper-covered boards ° - the clumsy neologism, ''harpercollinspublishers'' appears nowhere upon nor in this book
ppint. 23rd Apr 2023		Book [no Editor Listed] - Kalle Ankas Pocket: Knivigt, Kalle! (1990)	the contents of all eleven of these p/bs entered (so far!) on bookcat appear to differ from one another: unless they are all issues of a paperback format magazine entitled kalle ankas pocket°, the words currently given as sub-titles should be moved up to the title field to differentiate them as unique bookcat items. ° - if they are indeed issues of a magazine bearing this title - which looks as though it is possible, as each seems to bear an issue number (?and perhaps an individual unique publication date?), then they should be entered as such in magazinecat
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Naomi Mitchison - Memoirs Of A Spacewoman (1976)	new english library h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (front is typographical; iirc art by tim white is on rear of d-j) cover (d-j) price £3.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, nf introduction by hilary rubenstein, etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Naomi Mitchison - Memoirs Of A Spacewoman (1977)	new english library p/b second printing, though declared first printing science fiction master series cover art by tim white cover price 70p, $1.95 australia, $2.00 new zealand, $2.65 canada 160pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction by hilary rubenstein (1976), etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Adrian Room - Dictionary Of Trade Name Origins (1982)	routledge & kegan paul h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (none; 42 trade names - some also logos - in black on a white ground, below titles in red) cover (d-j) price £7.95 223pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards with title, author and rkp blocked in gold on spine there's no trace of any typography at all upon the d-j spine, but the red inks of the period were frequently not light-fast.
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Ann Maxwell - TimeShadow Rider (1986)	thomas doherty associates tor books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited, re-used from ''memoirs of a spacewoman'' naomi mitchison. (nel 1977) q.v., collected in ''the science fiction and fantasy world of tim white'' (1981), q.v.) canadian cat# 546561 canadian isbn 0-812-545651-2 cover price $2.95, $3.75 canada 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Ann Maxwell - The Jaws Of Menx (1981)	new american library signet books simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by paul alexander (signed alexander, uncredited) cover price. $2.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $2.75 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising canadian-carcassed copies drop the digit ''1'' from the indicia publishing history printing number line, formally identifying them as being the second printing though published simultaneously
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Ann Maxwell - The Singer Enigma (1976)	popular library mmpb first printing, first edition may also exist in near-identical variant with canadian-carcass° but yr hmbl srppnt.'s not seen this cover art by robert logrippo (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - please would any browser/ bookcatter with access to a copy check the publishing history on the reverse of the title page and, if it states the carcass (or ''book'') was printed in canada, post a comment here giving the form of words stating this, and also the words used for the date of its publication. tia, yours, ppint.
ppint. 22nd Apr 2023		Book Ann Maxwell - Change (1975)	popular library simultaneous first mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by gene szafran (signed szafran, uncredited) cover price $1.25 cat# 00316 224pp. including titles, indicia etc. refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed priority not established nor liable to be, both state only ©1975
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1984)	daw books mmpb undated sixth printing cover art by gino d'achille cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $3.50 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1983)	daw books mmpb undated° fifth printing cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited) b+w frontispiece by cj (signed illegibly, credited to the author) cover price $2.95 256pp. including titles, indicia, frontispiece etc, end pp. advertising ° - date may be taken from jaffery
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978)	nelson doubleday imprint h/cvr first printing bears the printer's gutter code of I06 on p.247 later printings' gutter codes include I36 9/78, K06 2/80, K12 3/80, M31 8/82 these are not necessarily exhaustive even through 8/1982, and i've no idea whether there's anyone still around as can explain the system - i've certainly no inside knowledge of it.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978)	second-wave yes, that's the doubleday science fiction book club cat#, prob'ly a later printing as it's recorded as being 2229 on the bottom back d-j flap of the first printing. nelson doubleday is/was one of the main imprints of the doubleday science fiction book club.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Louise Cooper - Blood Summer (1976)	sequel is ''in memory of sarah bailey'' louise cooper (1977), q.v., for which yr hmbl srppnt. has data, but has never sfaicr seen, let alone held a copy, and so cannot add of my own knowledge.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Louise Cooper - Blood Summer (1976)	new english library p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, possibly by bruce pennington or ray feibush (this is not an attribution!) cover price 40p, 42½p rep.(ublic) of ireland, 105pts spain, 45p gibraltar, 45c malta, 450 mils cyprus, $1.25 australia, $1.25 new zealand, $2.40 trinidad (w.i.), $1.50 canada 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising number in the isbn10 field is the sbn actually borne on the covers of this book.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Louise Cooper - The Book Of Paradox (1975)	dell books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art by frank frazetta (signed, part of signature visible, uncredited; collected in. ''frank frazetta book two'' (1977), q.v.) 22 b+w interior illustrations by barbara nessim (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.25 240pp? (dig it out and check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first dell printing---february 1975
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Louise Cooper - The Book Of Paradox (1975)	futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition, orbit series cover art unsigned, sfaik still as-yet unattributed interior b+w illustrations by barbara nessim (retained from delacorte press h/cvr first edition) cover price 260pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; source not advised by op.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Daughter Of The Empire (1991)	the kelewan empire trilogy #1: #1: ''daughter of the empire'' (1987), (this novel) #2: ''servant of the empire'' (1990), q.v. #3: ''mistress of the empire'' (1992), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #O: ''the empire trilogy'' e-book only (2013), q.v.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Daughter Of The Empire (1991)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 76783 00499 0 27211 the last element of which is the cat# of this book, and the only part peculiar to this title and edition.
ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Daughter Of The Empire (1991)	bantam doubleday dell bantam books bantam spectra imprint mmpb second printing with new cover art by don maitz (credited to janny wurts in error) cover price $5.99 (canada $6.99) 432pp. including 10 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, b+w kelewan map etc, 1 end p: about the authors dedication retained from doubleday h/cvr first edition

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