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ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1977)	nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb undated° second printing, with new cover art by doug (douglas) beekman (signed beekman, uncredited) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° only the 1961 copyright date is given; publication date taken from locus
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1974)	nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by dave noyes (signed noyes, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. apparent isbn on spine, 0843900198, is a fake - as should all nordon industries leisure books (etc.) be suspected of being 'til the checksum digit is calculated and proves to match that claimed. (this doesn't.)
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1963)	phoenix house ltd. the science fiction bookclub h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale only to sfbc members by mail-order subscription. not for sale by way of trade to the general public through retailers or via news wholesalers cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited as ''ohn griffiths'' on d-j front flap) cover price 5s 9d plus 1s postage and packing 264pp. including titles, indicia etc, 1 blank end p., sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards, author, title, sfbc & cat# in light blue on spine.
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Smuzz - If I Had A Dog (2023)	smuzz1: beats me - which is partly/mostly why i was asking; printers like the total pages of any one kind of paper in a book to go along with the way paper naturally folds & re-folds (- 2) - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 - 64 - etc. (upper limit per ''signature'' depending on the starting paper sheet size and the desired page size), as this gives both the lowest cost per page, and the printers' greatest convenience: so many-paged hardcovers and paperbacks tend to be made up of a whole number of one of these powers of two, plus some number of lower-whole-power-of-two pages, plus some number of lower-than-that-whole-power-of-two, etc., until the whole book carcase (including title page, copyright page-if-separate, table-of-contents page (if any) etc. & any end advertising pages; any blank end pages) is complete; covers - and endpapers (if any) - are additional to this optimised-for-lowest-cost number. but; small press-published, low-number-of-pages books often ignore this, whether through deliberate choice or cunning design; - and because of the neat way you imply there may be more adventure(s) to come, in the wordless illustration on the last page plus inside back cover - after the first & second endpaper design pages - - yr hmbl srppnt. found it rather difficult to decide how many pages there were. (- as you may have noticed...) - hope you're (both?) recovering well from whichever variant you co-decide you have or had. - yours, ppint. (- page count number duly adjusted.)
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Damon Knight - The Other Foot (1966)	whiting & wheaton first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (design, really, unsigned) cover (d-j) price 18/- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, 1 blank end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Poul Anderson - The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories (1977)	contents: the queen of air and darkness (novella) f&sf vol.40 #4, 4/1971 home (short story) in ''orbit 1'' ed. damon knight (1966), q.v. the alien enemy (ss) analog vol. lxxxii #3, 11/1968 as by michael karageorge the faun (ss) boy's life 9/1968 in the shadow (novelette) analog vol. lxxix #1, 3/1967 as by michael karageorge time lag (ntte) f&sf vol.20 #1, 1/1961, cover story, art by ed emshwiller; f&sf atlas bre vol.iii #10, 9/1961
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Poul Anderson - The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories (1977)	available for a while as a saw-cut remainder, and still turns up so in elsewise mint condition. (it just did.)
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic: The Graphic Novel (1991)	collection in one binding of innovation's four-comic miniseries based upon the novel.
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic: The Graphic Novel (1992)	first published year date of this graphic novel is^W was still wrong and should^W has at last now been corrected to 1992
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Donald A. Wollheim - Flight Into Space (1951)	thank-you mickdoom67
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Edmund Cooper - Sea-horse In The Sky (1980)	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks coronet books third printing, fourth hodder paperbacks printing, with re-designed cover typography cover art by chris foss (signed with an F, possibly visible on some copies, re-used from previous printing) cover price (check: obscured by reseller on this copy) indicia publishing history states fourth impression 192pp. including 4 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Edmund Cooper - Sea-horse In The Sky (1978)	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks coronet books imprint p/b second printing, third hodder p/b printing cover art by chris foss (signed with F, visible on some copies, uncredited) cover price 75p, $2.25 australia, $2.40 new zealand, $2.25 canada indicia publishing history somewhat misleadingly states coronet 1970, third impression 1978 192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Edmund Cooper - Sea-horse In The Sky (1974)	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks coronet books imprint p/b first printing with new cover art, second hodder paperbacks p/b printing from modified typesetting cover art by chris foss (signed with an F, guillotined off bottom of many copies, uncredited) cover price 30p, 95c australia, 90c new zealand, $1.25 canada 192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Edmund Cooper - Sea-horse In The Sky (1970)	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited treated (multiply echoed bust of woman diminishing towards centre, green-turquoise tinted photograph) cover price (25 p) 5/-, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand, $1.25 canada 192pp. including 4 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 1 end p. advising ''for regular early information about forthcoming novels send a postcard giving your name and address to mrs. jean povey hodder & stoughton ltd. st. paul's house, warwick lane, london e. c. 4''
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Edmund Cooper - Sea-horse In The Sky (1969)	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (unsigned, credited for design) cover (d-j) price 21/- (£1.05) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, 1 blank end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Wilson Tucker - The Long Loud Silence (Revised) (1969)	lancer books mmpb first printing, revised edition, first thus cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Timothy Powers - The Drawing Of The Dark (1987)	wm collins sons group grafton books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b: second printing of granada publishing 1981 setting, and bearing the same (mayflower books block) isbn as this cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand 388pp? (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Apr 2023		Book Tim Powers - Forsake The Sky (1986)	another of those pesky möbius one-sided sheets of paper in this book, or so it would appear...
ppint. 14th Apr 2023		Book Sax Rohmer - The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1961)	pyramid books mmpb first printing, first merkin p/b edition cover art by mort engle (aka mort engel) (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 14th Apr 2023		Book Sax Rohmer - Shadow Of Fu Manchu (1960)	panther books first printing, first uk p/b edition crime band series cover art by barye philips (signed, uncredited; re-used from ''re-enter fu manchu'' (gold medal s684 (us 1957), q.v.) cover price 2'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 14th Apr 2023		Book Eric Frank Russell - Wasp (1961)	science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, for sale only to sfbc members by mail-order by subscription, later also optionally to members of readers union group book clubs cover (d-j) art by c. w. bacon cover (d-j) price (5s. 6d. including postage & packing) 204pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 14th Apr 2023		Book Sax Rohmer - Re-Enter Fu Manchu (1960)	panther books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition crime circle series cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaik cover price 2'6 c. 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Donald E. Westlake - Anarchaos (2004)	#second-wave yes, indeed; thank-you. with no merkin d-j price, and no merkin address, it seems a solidly uk h/cvr edition, whoever now owns severn house publishers. - the world of publishing was quite confusing even when yr hmbl srppnt. was working as a specialist freelance editor (more-or-less) in it, and could ask questions of other people working within it directly. - now i'm well out of it, and nearly every large publisher's been gobbled up by one of three or four big bad multinational megacorpses - and almost everyone else has joined in the takeover game. . .
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Arthur Bertram Chandler - From Sea To Shining Star (1990)	contents: foreword (nf) keith curtis, susan chandler sea change (novelette) in ''the year 2000'' ed. harry harrison (1970), q.v. shadow before (short story) cosmos vol.1 #3, 3/1954; sf monthly (australia) #8, 4/1956 precession (ss) (?) 4/1959 castaway (ss) weird tales vol. xxxx #1, 11/1947; new worlds #6, spring/1950 change of heart (ss) new worlds #110, 9/1961; fantastic vol.11 #5, 5/1962 not quite the noblest (ss) (?) 7/1956 as it was in the beginning (ss) (?) 5/1955 what's in a name? (ss) (?) 11/1958 the word (ss) (?) 3/1959 all laced up (ss) new worlds #112, 7/1961 the pied potter (ss) f&sf vol.41 #2, 8/1971 what would you do? (ss) (?) 2/1958 the hairy parents (ss) void #2, 11/1975; fantastic vol.27 #3, 10/1978 sense of wonder (ss) new worlds #64, 10/1957; fantastic universe vol. 9 #2, 2/1958; both as by bertram chandler long way (ss) worlds of tomorrow vol.2 #4, 11/1964 as ''the long way'', by a. bertram chandler, susan chandler critical angle (ss) f&sf vol.15 #5, 11/1958; venture atlas bre #12, 8/1964 (10/1964 australia) artifact (ss) nebula #24, 9/1957; amazing vol.34 #4, 4/1958 jetsam (ss) new worlds #20, 3/1953; f&sf vol.4 #4, 4/1953; f&sf mellifont bre vol.1 #1, 10/1953 moonfall (ss) imagination vol.6 #5, 5/1955 the idol (ss) fantastic vol.8 #8, 8/1959; ultimate reprint weird mystery #48, winter/1970 hindsight (ss) (orig?) the last hunt (ntte) galaxy vol.33 #5, 3-4/1973; galaxy tandem bre #6 (a john grimes story) seeing eye (ss) amazing vol.34 #9, 10/1960 the soul machine (ss) galaxy vol.29 #2, 10/1969; bre 11/1969 (a john grimes story) journey's end (ss) amazing vol.52 #2, 2/1979 (a john grimes story) finishing touch (ss) new worlds #15, 7/1952; imagination vol.4 #4, 5/1953 as ''doom satellite'' man alone (ss) (orig?) the cage (ss) f&sf vol.12 #6, 6/1957; authentic #82, 7/1957 the kingsolving's planet irregulars (ntte) as ''the kinsolving's planet irregulars'' galaxy vol.28 #5, 7/1969 giant killer (ntte) astounding vol. xxxvi #2, 10/1945, cover story art by timmins, six b+w illustrations by orban bibliography (nf) (uncredited) afterword (nf) keith curtis, susan chandler ° (orig.) = appears to be original to this collection
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Arthur Bertram Chandler - From Sea To Shining Star (1990)	dreamstone books h/cvr limited edition first printing, 400 copies° canberra, australia simultaneous deluxe slipcased h/cvr limited edition first printing, 100 copies° signed by the editors and the artist isbn 0-9587968-0-7 cover(?) price $100.00 collection of four novelettes and twenty-six short stories, with nf foreword & afterword by the editors, keith curtis & susan chandler cover art by nick stathopoulos cover (d-j) price $70.00 342pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound between covered boards ° - i don't know for certain, but believe that this indicates the total combined print-run was of 500 copies
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book A. Bertram Chandler - Kelly Country (1985)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first merkin edition nf foreword & nf afterword by a. bertram chandler cover art by ken w. kelly (signed, signature partly visible, trimmed off some copies, credited) cover price (canada £3.95) • u.s. $3.50 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 639 348pp. (check) including titles, indicia, forward to the us edition, afterword to the us edition, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history and to printing number line to distinguish between canadian-carcassed and wholly merkin printings no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, august 1985, but the digit ''1'' is dropped from the canadian-carcassed copies, formally identifying them as the second printing
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book A. Bertram Chandler - Kelly Country (1984)	penguin books australia p/b first printing, first edition cover art by (peter) brett colqhoun (unsigned sfaics, attribution from "the science fiction encyclopedia " 3rd edition; my noting of his first name; i do not know his preferred byline.) cover price $5.95 (fish out and add overseas territories prices, including the uk's) 348pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia; taken from locus
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Stanislaw Lem - Return From The Stars (1982)	the polish title given below should be entered in the ''english title'' field: bookcat will sort all editions of this book together automagically, once this is done for translations.
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Stanislaw Lem - Return From The Stars (1982)	''powrót z gwiazd'' (1961), q.v., translated into english by barbara marszal & frank simpson, translation first published by harcourt brace jovanovich h/cvr 5/1980 usa and secker & warburg h/cvr 1980 uk (yr hmbl srppnt. does not know which has priority) avon books bard imprint p/b or mmpb first printing, first english language p/b edition cover art by stanislaw fernandes (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.95 252pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 13th Apr 2023		Book Donald E. Westlake - Anarchaos (2004)	#second-wave: is this in fact the announced merkin p/b, which just happens to've been produced in the uk, can you tell? (the back image does not show the announced uk cover price, and since the uk publisher, severn house, was sold to a merkin publishers, it seems possible there might in fact be only one edition here, rather than two different editions...)

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