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ppint. 20th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Daughter Of The Empire (1988)	bantam doubleday dell bantam books bantam spectra imprint mmpb first printing, first general p/b edition dedication as per h/cvr first edition cover art by janny wurts (unsigned, credited, overshadowed by very large typography above & below it) cover price $4.40 (canada $5.50) 432pp. including 10 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc. 2pp. b+w map, etc, 1 end p: about the authors
ppint. 19th Apr 2023		Book Poul Anderson - A Midsummer Tempest (1975)	futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited (seen attributed to bob fowke, but naught in support of this given) cover price 60p, $2.20 australia, $2.20 new zealand 232pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 19th Apr 2023		Book Poul Anderson - A Midsummer Tempest (1985)	tor books mmpb second printing, despite bearing a printing number line of a first printing in the indica publishing history, 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; still bears two i/sbns, cat#s and cover prices; bears new cover art (unsigned, sfaik still as-yet unattributed) isbn 0-812-53-080-2 canada cat# canada 53-080 cover price $3.50 canada cover price $2.95 u.s. 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising no longer states distributed by pinnacle books, inc.
ppint. 19th Apr 2023		Book Poul Anderson - A Midsummer Tempest (1984)	tor books mmpb first printing, distributed by pinnacle books n.b. bears two sbns and associated cat#s and cover prices states a jim baen presentation on the title page cover art by luis bermejo (unsigned, credited) sbn 812-53-079-9 meerkia cat# 53-079 merkia sbn 812-53-080-2 canada cat# 53-080 canada cover price $3.50 canada cover price $2.95 u.s. 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, and pp. advertising
ppint. 19th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Daughter Of The Empire (1987)	doubleday bantam dell doubleday imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition so stated in publishing history this book is dedicated to harold matson, with deep appreciation, respect, and affection. cover (d-j) arr by janny wurts (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $17.95 400pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, bound with endpapers bearing b+w maps between covered boards printers' gutter code CC16 on numbered p.394 advised indicates april 1987 printing; d-j code 0687 bottom of back flap advised indicates 6/1987 printing &- publication distinguish from near-identical doubleday science fiction book club h/cvr edition 11/1987° adds sfbc cat# 11627 by reference to absence of statement of first edition in indicia publishing history cover (d-j) price $6.98 (check this is. printed; may instead/also state book club edition) 372pp? (check: but lesser in extent than the doubleday trade h/cvr) month not given, taken from locus
ppint. 19th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Servant Of The Empire (1991)	bantam doubleday dell bantam books bantam spectra sf & fantasy series mmpb first printing cover art by don maitz (unsigned, credited) cover price $5.99, $6.99 canada 704pp. including 8 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, 2pp. b+w map of kelewan etc, 5 end pp: 1p. about the authors, 2pp. advertising, 2blank pp.
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Raymond E. Feist - Servant Of The Empire (1990)	wm collins sons group grafton imprint yp/b first printing simultaneous with and from the same signatures as grafton imprint h/cvr first printing, simultaneous first uk edition dedicated to the memory of ron faust, always a friend° cover art by don maitz (unsigned, credited) (shared with grafton h/cvr d-j, from doubleday merkin h/cvr first edition d-j (1990), q.v.) cover price £7.99 (no other price) 544pp. including 10 unnumbered, including 4 blank pp., titles, indicia etc, numbered pp..then run (7) 8-536, 4 blank end pp. ° - faust? nor feist? - check this isn't my error°°, nor a tyop by grafton/collins...°°° °°. 18/4/23 edit: no, not yr hmbl srppnt.'s error - t'oxfam bookshop's not yet sold this copy: and it's definitely ''faust''. . . °°°. 19/4/23 edit: and the same in the 12/1991 bantam books mmpb: absolutely definitely ''faust''.
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Steve Holland - Aliens (1999)	pocket books archway books p/b mmpb undated third printing by publishing history printing number line cover art photographic by bill little (unsigned, credited) cover price $4.50/$6.50 can.(ada) (?)pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Alison Maloney - And Now, The Weather... (2017)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 978178594282290000
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Alison Maloney - And Now, The Weather... (2017)	random penguin ebury books bbc books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition foreword by carol kirkwood puff-lined on front cover; author not given on spine or covers cover art (none: three small weather map symbols, sun blocked in copper between rain & lightning clouds in white, else typographical in gold (title) and white within white box double-ruled as though for a map) cover price £9.99 224pp. including 14pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, foreword etc, 9 end pp: 1p. acknowledgements, 6 blank pp., perfectbound with endpapers between light blue cloth-covered boards, no d-j
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Thief Of Time (2014)	harpercollinspublishers harper imprint tp/b 8/2014 first printing, not first merkin p/b edition (was harpertorch mmpb 5/2002) cover art by chip kidd (?) (unsigned, uncredited; silhouette of black cloaked, hooded, gloved figure on a black horse riding over yellow roman numerals, on a somewhat turquoisey-blue background, re-used from previous harpertorch mmpb cover art) cover price $9.99 (no canadian price given) 432pp. including 6 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp: 3pp. advertising alternating with 3 blank pp., inside front & back covers b+w advertising, photo of terry & brief biographical note. distinguish from reprintings by reference to the publishing history printing number line which starts off 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 in this first printing, and should progressively drop the lowest remaining digit
ppint. 18th Apr 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner (2016)	random penguin doubleday imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition 2016 distinguish from reprintings by the indicia publishing history printing number 001 sort of retrospective dedication by terry to his earlier self: and so the journey begins, young terry. who knows where it will take you? enjoy the ride! cover (d-j) art by mark beech (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) interior b+w illustrations also by mark beech (unsigned, credited) cover (d-j) price £12.99, $22.99 canada 336pp. including 12pp. (one numbered ix) titles, indicia, table-of-contents, nf introduction by terry pratchett, etc., 6 end pp. advertising ''dragons at crumbling castle and other stories'' including 5pp. extract; perfectbound onto flexible backing strip with purple endpapers between light blue plasticy(?)-finished -paper(?)-covered boards, art on both front, back & on spine by mark beech; author, title & publisher on spine in respectively, black, white and yellow, and white somewhat oddly, perhaps, the smaller second element of the bar-code & number, 62299, encodes the canadian cover price in cents rather than the uk cover price in pence. i've no idea of the reason for this.
ppint. 17th Apr 2023		Book R. W. Mackelworth - Firemantle (1969)	when david & charles ltd. bought the readers union group of bookclubs from j. m. dent & sons ltd, 1/1972, they started a new sequence of cat#s that the books do not seem to've borne, in the 1000 range. 1/1973 they re-cat#ed the in-print stock of the science fiction book club alphabetically by title in the 5000 series, from 5001 ''age of the pussyfoot, the'' onwards, with ''firemantle'' being allocated cat# 5016, through 5067 ''worlds of robert f. young, the'', and continued to catalogue number new monthly sfbc choices on from there. (this renumbering is now almost completely theoretical, as sfaik the books themselves did not ever bear these later cat#s, but is noted here, ''just in case''. . .)
ppint. 17th Apr 2023		Book R. W. Mackelworth - Firemantle (1969)	j. m. dent & sons readers union group the science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by terry james (blurry b+w art unsigned, credited) cover (d-j) price 8/6d. 168pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time And Again (1977)	abp / eyre methuen h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition (was william heinemann) cover (d-j) art by tony (anthony) roberts (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap; shared with magnum p/b) cover (d-j) price (none printed) £2.75 on initially peelable white label 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given, taken from locus #205, 10/1977
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1977)	serialised as ''the fisherman'' in analog vol. lxvii #2, #3, #4, #5; 4, 5, 6, 7/1961, and analog bre vol. xvii #8, #9, #10, #11; 8, 9, 10, 11/1961; part one is the cover story, art by h. r. van dongen, redrawn (? or recoloured?) uncredited for the bre; in both, the six (different) b+w illustrations for each episode are also by h. r. van dongen
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1986)	abp group methuen london p/b first printing, third abp group p/b printing, with new isbn, new cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) uniform cover ''surname logo'' design cover price £1.95 (no other territories' prices) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising publication month not given, taken from locus
ppint. 16th Apr 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time Is The Simplest Thing (1980)	abp group magnum books p/b second printing with new isbn, new cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.10, $3.95 australia, $4.10 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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.

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