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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 12th Apr 2023		Book James Graham Ballard - Vermilion Sands (1992)	orion publishing group phoenix imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by rené magritte (detail from ''la méditation'', 1936: credited on back cover) cover price £4.99 208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, preface (nf) by the author, etc, end pp.
ppint. 11th Apr 2023		Book Laurence Van Cott Niven - The Patchwork Girl (Text Only) (1982)	macdonald & co. (publishers) ltd. futura publications first printing, first uk edition, first thus dedication: to my father . RIP. cover art by peter andrew jones (probably signed paj somewhere, uncredited; attributed on stylistic and credited covers on contemporaneous futura publications' larry niven p/b titles' cover art) cover price £1.25, $4.50 australia 144pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, no additional end pp.
ppint. 11th Apr 2023		Book Laurence Van Cott Niven - The Patchwork Girl (1980)	berkley publishing group ace books imprint mmpb first printing, not first p/b edition cover art by fernando fernandez (unsigned, uncredited, retained from tp/b first edition) b+w illustrations by fernando fernandez (credited) cover price $2.50 208pp. including titles, indicia, interior illustrations etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 11th Apr 2023		Book Laurence Van Cott Niven - The Patchwork Girl (1980)	berkley publishing group ace books imprint tp/b first printing, first edition cover art by fernando fernandez (unsigned, uncredited; credited in 1989 printing) b+w interior illustrations, most double-page or full page, by fernando fernandez (credited) cover price $5.95 208pp. including titles, indicia, interior illustrations etc.
ppint. 11th Apr 2023		Book Walter Michael Miller Jr - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1960)	weidenfeld & nicholson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by milton glaser (signed, re-used from j. b. lippincott first edition h/cvr, u.s. 1959) cover (d-j) price 16/- 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 11th Apr 2023		Book Walter Michael Miller Jr - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1959)	j. b. lippincott h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by milton glaser (signed, uncredited ) cover (d-j) price $4.95 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given, taken from the 2/1961 bantam books mmpb publishing history refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from 3/1960 second and 4/1960 third printings, at least the latter of which bears different d-j art by george sottung (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Rings Of Ice (1987)	hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb undated° fourth printing cover art by jim warren (signed, may be trimmed off in production, credited) cover price ($4.50 canada) • u.s. $3.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, afterword (nf) donald l. cyr, end p. advertising ° date of publication taken from locus: i have seen this queried on the grounds that the publication date on the end p. advertising is 12/(19)86
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Rings Of Ice (1977)	wm collins sons collins group fontana books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by peter tybus (signed with ty in a circle, credited) cover price 65p, $1.95 australia, $1.95 new zealand, $1.75 canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, fairly brief afterword (nf) donald l. cyr, end p. advertising
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Rings Of Ice (1975)	millington books h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first hcvr edition cover (d-j) art by w. f. phillipps cover (d-j) price £2.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, afterword by donald l. cyril, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Rings Of Ice (1974)	author's name should evidently be ''corrected'' to ''piers anthony dillingham jacob'', according to moderator's new practice.
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Orn (1977)	of man and manta #2: #1: ''omnivore'' (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Orn (1977)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter andrew ''paj'' jones (signed, uncredited) cover price 75p, $2.15 australia, $2.45 new zealand 240pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - OX (1977)	of man and manta #3: #1: ''omnivore'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - OX (1977)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter andrew ''paj'' jones cover price 85p, $2.45 australia, $2.80 new zealand, $2.25 canada 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Omnivore (1969)	#1 of of man and manta: #1: ''omnivore'' (1968), q.v. (this novel) #2: ''orn'' (1971), q.v. #3: ''OX'' (1976), q.v. ormnibosceri: #O1: ''omnivore/orn'' (1973), q.v. omnibus editions of #1, #2 & #3: #O2: ''of man and manta'' (1986), q.v.
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Orn (1971)	author's name should, it would appear, be ''corrected'' to piers anthony dillingham jacob - - even though ''piers anthony'' is both far and away his most common by-line - - and is, itself, a partial form of his name.
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - Omnivore (1969)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by jerome gask cover (d-j) price £1.25 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Anne McCaffrey - Decision At Doona (1969)	ballantine books mmpb near-simultaneous first printings, first edition, sharing cover art by richard powers (signed, but only his lazorg visible, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising canadian-carcassed copies are dated may, wholly merkin-printed copies april 1969
ppint. 10th Apr 2023		Book Smuzz - If I Had A Dog (2023)	mud and blackberries publishing large format p/b first printing, first edition cover art smuzz interior full colour art also by smuzz cover price (none printed, £9.99 on price label) 40pp. including title page & indicia, perfectbound; the two back pages decorated identically with the front endpaper design are not the last page and the inside back cover: they are followed by an envoi illustration part on the final page & part on the inside back cover; card covers. (smuzz: if you'd like the above description of your book - and especially the explanation of the page count - re-emended. . .) (edited 16/4/2023: does this fit better ?)
ppint. 9th Apr 2023		Book Anne Inez Mccaffrey - Restoree (1977)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b third printing cover art by angus mckie (unsigned, uncredited; attributed entitled ''miami spaceport'' in ''terran trade authority handbook: spacecraft 2000-2100 a.d.'' stuart cowley (1978), q.v.) cover price 75p, (overseas territories prices - fish out + enter) 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 9th Apr 2023		Book Anne Inez Mccaffrey - Restoree (1976)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b second printing with new isbn, new cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 65p (overseas territories prices?) 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 9th Apr 2023		Book Anne Inez Mccaffrey - Restoree (1970)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 5s. (25p), 69c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 9th Apr 2023		Book Anne Inez Mccaffrey - Restoree (1967)	andré deutsch rapp & whiting imprint first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by lawrence edwards cover (d-j) price 25/- 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 9th Apr 2023		Book Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1961)	j. m. dent & sons readers union group contemporary fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale to book club members only, later offered as an option to other readers union group book club members cover (d-j) art (b+w design or entire b+w with yellow spot colour cover design) by dodie masterman cover (d-j) price 6/- (may be including postage) 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book Lindsay Gutteridge - Killer Pine (1975)	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first p/b edition cover art by chris foss (unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''hardware'' various authors (2011), q.v.) cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book Lindsay Gutteridge - Cold War In A Country Garden (1973)	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first p/b edition cover art by chris foss (signed, uncredited) cover price 30p, 75c south africa, $3.00 singapore, 95c australia & new zealand, 95c canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Universe Against Her (1979)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb second ace books printing, erroneously stated to be ace books' first printing cover art by steve durke (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.95 192pp. including 5pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 5pp. advertising (b+w cover drawings/ reductions from colour covers new ace sf titles/reissues)
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Telzey Toy (1976)	sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by david (a.) hardy (credited on d-j back cover) restricted palette: red & black on white cover (d-j) price £2.25 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book Michael Moorcock - The Russian Intelligence (1983)	liable to in fact be (156pp. or) 160pp. including titles, indica etc, end p./pp. (plus endpapers) cos that's how folding sheets of paper works; and very few books' pages include one - or more odd numbers of - möbius pages.
ppint. 8th Apr 2023		Book Anne McCaffrey - The Planet Pirates (1993)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint tp/b first omnibus printing, first thus omnibus edition of ''death of sleep'' (1990) by anne mccaffrey, jody lynn nye 'sassinak'' (1990), ''generation warriors'' (1991) by anne mccaffrey, elizabeth moon cover art by stephen hickman cover price $12.00 ($14.50? canada (check)) 896pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the near-identical: 12/1996 second printing cover price $15.00 ($18.50? canada (check)) isbn 0671721879 retained indicia publishing history adds line second printing december 1996 and from the 12/2000 h/cvr first printing, first omnibus h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by stephen hickman (unsigned?, credited on d-j back flap and in indica) cover (d-j) price $26.00 ($30.00? canada (check)) isbn 0671319620 - and which is, incidentally, possessed of a hardcover

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