ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers Anthony Dillingham Jacob - OX (1977) | of man and manta #3:
#1: ''omnivore'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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.
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookPiers 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
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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
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ppint. ● 10th Apr 2023 | | BookSmuzz - 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 ?)
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ppint. ● 9th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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
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ppint. ● 9th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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
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ppint. ● 9th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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
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ppint. ● 9th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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
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ppint. ● 9th Apr 2023 | | BookWalter 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
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookLindsay 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
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookLindsay 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
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookJames 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)
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookJames 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
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookMichael 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.
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ppint. ● 8th Apr 2023 | | BookAnne 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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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookJames White - Lifeboat (1972) | ''heaven is not my home.''
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookJames White - Lifeboat (1972) | this book's sbn is actually 345-02797-3, also quotable as 345027973;
the sbn is / was defined as being nine digits in extent, the ninth being the checksum digit.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookJames White - Tomorrow Is Too Far (1971) | this book's sbn is actually 345-02150-9, also quotable as 345021509;
the sbn is (was) nine digits in extent by definition, with the ninth being the checksum digit.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Trading In Danger (2003) | vatta's war pentalogy listed, links to & fro done and tested.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions (2008) | vatta's war #5:
#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Command Decision (2007) | vatta's war #4:
#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Engaging The Enemy (2006) | vatta's war #3:
#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions (2008) | hachette group uk orbit books imprint first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition
cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99 (?or £7.99 ? check)
464pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least three near-identical reprintings, stating progressively reprinted 2009, appending (twice), and then modifying this to (three times)
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Command Decision (2007) | hachette group uk orbit books imprint first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition
cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
460pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from at least six near-identical undated reprintings
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Engaging The Enemy (2006) | little, brown (warner books uk) orbit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition, possibly simultaneous first edition
cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
460pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least two near-identical reprintings which add the line, reprinted 2006, and then append (twice)
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ppint. ● 7th Apr 2023 | | BookWalter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1963) | title is^W was still incorrect and should^W has been corrected to ''a canticle for leibowitz''
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