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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...)
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

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