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4th Apr 2023
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Harlan Ellison - Again, Dangerous Visions (1976)
author field should^W has been varied to editor.

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Again, Dangerous Visions (1976)
contents:

the counterpart of view (short story) john heidenry
ching witch! (ss) ross rocklynne
the word for world is forest (novella) ursula k. le guin (a short novel set in the hainish oekumene)
for value received (ss) andrew offutt
mathoms from the time closet (ss) gene wolfe
robot's story (ss) gene wolfe
against the lafayette escadrille (ss) gene wolfe
loco parentis (ss) gene wolfe
time travel for pedestrians (ss) ray nelson
christ, old student in a new school (poem) ray bradbury
king of the hill (ss) chad oliver
the 10:00 report is brought to you by... (ss) edward (ed) bryant
the funeral (novelette) kate wilhelm
harry the hare (ss) james b. hemesath
when it changed (ss) joanna russ (a whileaway story)
the big space fuck (ss) kurt vonnegut, jr.
bounty (ss) t. l. sherred
still-life (ss) k. m. o'donnell (pseudonym of barry n. malzberg)
stoned counsel (ss) h. h. hollis
monitored dreams and strategic cremations (ss) bernard wolfe
the bisquit position (ss) bernard wolfe
the girl with rapid eye movements (ntte) bernard wolfe
with a finger in my i (ss) david gerrold
in the barn (ntte) piers anthony
soundless evening (ss) lee hoffman
'' '' (blur) (a smudge) (ss) gahan wilson (aka ''blot'')
the test-tube creature, afterward (ss) joan bernott
and the sea like mirrors (ss) gregory (greg) benford
bedsheets are white (ss) evelyn lief
tissue (ss) james sallis
at the fitting shop (ss) james sallis
53rd american dream (ss) james sallis
elouise and the rotors of the planet pergamon (ss) josephine saxton
chuck berry, won't you please come home (ss) ken mccullough
epiphany for aliens (ss) david kerr
eye of the beholder (ss) burt k. filer
moth race (ss) richard hill
in re glover (ss) leonard tushnet
zero gee (ntte) ben bova (a kinsman story)
a mouse in the walls of the global village (ss) dean r. koontz
getting along (ntte) james blish, j. a. lawrence
tötenbuch (ss) a. parra (parra y figuéredo) (1972)
things lost (ss) thomas m. disch
with the bentfin boomer boys on little old new alabama (novella) richard a. lupoff (=> space war blues)
lamia mutable (ss) m. john harrison (a viriconium story)
last train to kankakee (ss) robin scott (robin scott wilson)
empire of the sun (ss) andrew weiner
ozymandias (ss) terry carr
the milk of paradise (ss) james tiptree, jr. (alice r. sheldon)
ed emshwiller (nf) anonymous

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Again, Dangerous Visions (1976)
millington books h/cvr first printing, first uk edition

original anthology of 41 stories, five novelettes and a two novellas, plus a poem, preceded by
''an assault of new dreamers'', an nf (well... typically ott, really) introduction by harlan ellison. . .

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, possibly credited; either for abstract art, or for cover design...)
interior b+w art by ed emshwiller (credited)
cover (d-j) price £6.00
776pp. (check) including xvi pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, each story has substantial nf introductions & afterwords, and there's an article on ed emshwiller and his art, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - World Of Ptavvs (1971)
all uk p/b editions and printings seen by yr hmbl srppnt.° bear the intrusive - or at least excrusive(!) - definite article upon their front covers and spines - but not upon their title pages.

i doubt anyone remembers why - even if they're still among the unenslaved. . .


. . . . . . . . so far. . .


° - sphere books, futura books orbit series (''futura/orbit''), and orbit books. . .

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Robert Muchamore - Dark Sun (2008)
hachette children's books hodder children's books hodder cherub imprint p/b first printing

specially written and published for world book day

128pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, advertisement for/explanation of meanings (rankings) of different colour cherub t-shirts available, and to be worn on campus by kids & adults working as cherubs(!), 14 end pp. including 5pp. cherubs: a history (nf-in-f), 6pp. advertising for the first nine cherubtitles, 1p. for the (then) forthcoming tenth cherubtitle, 2pp. advertising for CHERUB, which seems to be a real organisational acronym, including recruiting websites, cherubmissions, etc.

complete bar-code number: 9780340956793/00100 (yes, with nonsystematic solidus)
export isbn13: 9780340956809

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Norton Parker - Time Of Fury (1980)
nordon publications leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, believed first edition

fiction, western - but bookcat still possesses no ''western'' publishing category, so ''fiction, history''

cover art (signed with an uncertainly decipherable stylised pub/rub/pus/rus monogram which i've not previously seen, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
304pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. advertising for ''mothers and lovers'' jeannie sabel leisure books lb 743 $2.25, 1p. for ''travelin' woman'' katherine gibbs leisure books lb 728 $1.95
©1980 by norton and kallie parker; no other date given

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - All The Myriad Ways (1977)
random house group ballantine books mmpb third printing

cover art by dean ellis (retained from second printing where it's erroneously credited to rick sternbach; this now corrected to dean ellis)
cover price $1.50
184pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - All The Myriad Ways (1975)
ballantine books mmpb second printing, with new

cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, mistakenly credited to rick sternbach)
cover price $1.50
184pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - All The Myriad Ways (1971)
ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

mainly reprint collection of ten short stories, a novelette and two nf articles

cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, credited)
cover price 95¢
184pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: june, 1971

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - A Gift From Earth (1970)
j. m. dent readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr first printing
for sale to members of this book club only, on a subscription basis, by mail-order, and later as an option to members of the other group book clubs

cover (d-j) art by terry james (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover price 16s. to members only
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

renumbered cat# 5018 in david & charles's great renumbering of 1973 - ''just saying...''

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - A Gift From Earth (1969)
(bpcc by now? check) macdonald & co. publishers h/cvr first printing, first hcvr edition, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited line-drawing on block capitals of standardised sf line design)
cover (d-j) price 25/- (£1.25) (check)
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - A Gift From Earth (1968)
ballantine books mmpb first printing°, first edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° yr hmbl srppnt. hasn't seen, nor seen report of a canadian-carcassed variant of this first printing; if any bookcatter or browser discovers such, please would you be so good as to post a comment ''here'' giving the wording stating this from its indicia publishing history. thank-you. ppint.

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
August Derleth - The Outer Reaches (1963)
contents:

?foreword (nf introduction) august derleth (? check for this: declared to be in other half in other half's table-of-contents, but absent from that book)
interloper (novelette) poul anderson, f&sf vol.2 #2, 4/1951
death sentence (short story) isaac asimov, astounding vol. xxxii #3, 11/1943
this is the land (ss) nelson (s.) bond, (source not named - original to the anthology?) 1951
ylla (ss) ray bradbury, macleans 1/1950 as ''i'll not look for wine'' (a martian chronicles story)
the green cat (ss) cleve cartmill, worlds beyond vol.1 #2, 1/1951
git along! (ss) l. sprague de camp, astounding vol. xxxxv #6, 8/1950 (viagens interplanetarias)
service first (ss) david h. keller (md), amazing stories quarterly vol. 4 #1, winter/1931
shock (ss) henry kuttner, astounding vol. xxxi #1, 3/1943 (possibly henry kuttner, c. l. moore) as by lewis padgett

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
August Derleth - The Outer Reaches (1951)
pellegrini & cudahy h/cvr first printing, first edition

reprint anthology of seventeen short stories, three novelettes and a novella, introduction by the editor

cover (d-j) art by r. t. crane (signed, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price $3.95
356pp. (check) including ix pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
August Derleth - The Time Of Infinity (1963)
contents:

the ship sails at midnight (short story) fritz leiber, fantastic adventures vol.12 #9, 9/1950; bre #4, 12/1950
the power (ss) murray leinster, astounding vol. xxxvi #1, 9/1945
the critters (ss) frank belknap long, astounding vol. xxxvi #3, 11/1945
pardon my mistake (ss) fletcher pratt, thrilling wonder stories vol. xxix #2, 12/1946
good night, mr. james (novelette) clifford (d.) simak, galaxy vol.1 #6, 3/1951 aka ''the night of the puudly''
the plutonian drug (ss) clark ashton smith, amazing vol.9 #5, 9/1934
farewell to eden (ss) theodore sturgeon, (? (original appearence not given)) 1949
co-operate - or else! (ntte) a. e. van vogt, astounding vol. xxix #2, 4/1942 (a rull series story)
finality unlimited (novella) donald wandrei, astounding vol. xviii #1, 9/1936

(the declared foreword (nf introduction) by august derleth is absent from this p/b half of the anthology)

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
August Derleth - The Time Of Infinity (1963)
world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books imprint p/b first printing, first edition thus
first edition of parent anthology 1951

derivative reprint anthology of one novella, two novelettes and six short stories

cover art by norman adams (signed adams, uncredited)
cover price 2'6
208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - World Of Ptavvs (1966)
ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art by norman adams (unsigned, uncredited, re-used from ''time of infinity'' ed. august derleth, consul 1268 (uk 1963), q.v. where signature is clearly visible)
cover price 50¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition: august, 1966

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - The Draco Tavern (2006)
tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

collection of the draco tavern stories, twenty-seven short stories with introduction by the author

dedication: i have been writing these stories nearly as long as we have been married. this book is for marilyn.

cover art by stephen martinniere (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price $6.99, $9.99 canada
336pp. including xvi pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, 4 blank end pp.

refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from near-identical further printings indicated by the progressive dropping of the lowest remaining digit; 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 = second printing

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Elmore Leonard - Tishomingo Blues (2003)
cat# is 08394 - as per the final element of the bar-code number on the back cover.

chocolate teapot time again.

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Stanley G. Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey (1972)
contents:

the wonder of weinbaum (nf introduction) sam moskowitz as ''dawn of flame'' satellite 5/1959, science fantasy #46, 6/1961
a martian odyssey (novelette) wonder stories vol.6 #2, 7/1934 (tweel #1)
the adaptive ultimate (ntte) astounding vol. xvi #3, 11/1935
the lotus eaters (ntte) astounding vol. xv #2, 4/1935
proteus island (ntte) astounding vol. xvii #6, 8/1936
the brink of infinity (short story) thrilling wonder stories vol. 8 #3, 12/1936

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Stanley G. Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey (1972)
lancer books mmpb third printing, so stated in publishing history
no sub-title, even on front cover

cover art unsigned, uncredited (almost certainly bob pepper, but wants evidence)
cover price 95¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, introduction by sam moskowitz etc, end p. advertising

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Alan Shepley - Pub Walks In South Cumbria (1995)
thirty detailed walks of from 2¾ to 7 miles, each starting and finishing at a named pub, with line-drawn maps of walks, b+w photographs and detailed descriptions including bar opening times° and times of availability of meals°, brief outline of menus and beers, ciders, wines stocked°, contact details of the pubs, and car parking availability;

° - these details are subject to change, and increasingly of course, as time passes

lengths of walks, 1:50,000 metric landranger series ordnance survey map names & number(s) upon which it is given, and national grid reference of walks' starting-and-finishing pubs & inns given.

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Alan Shepley - Pub Walks In South Cumbria (1995)
countryside books tp/b first printing, first edition
3, catherine road, newbury, berkshire

cover art by colin doggett (unsigned, credited)
b+w photographs and line-drawn maps by alan shepley, credited
cover price £4.99
128pp. including 7pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, no additional end pp.

the subtitle is the expansion of what is intended by ''south cumbria'', not a further subdivision thereof.

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Stanley G. Weinbaum - The New Adam (1974)
thomson books ltd. sphere books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition (check other printings?)

science fiction classics 14

cover art by patrick woodroffe (unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''mythopoeikon'' (1976), q.v.)
cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.10 new zealand
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - Extra(Ordinary) People (1985)
contents:

souls (novella) f&sf vol. 62 #1, 1/1982
the mystery of the young gentleman (novelette) ''speculations'' eds. alice laurence, isaac asimov (1982)
bodies (short story) (original to this collection)
what did you do during the revolution, grandma? (ntte) the seattle review vol.1 #1, spring/1983
everyday depressions (ss) (original to this collection)

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - Extra(Ordinary) People (1985)
the namara group the women's press p/b first printing, first uk edition

mainly reprint collection of one novella, two novelettes, and two short stories original to this collection

cover art by judith clute (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £1.95
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - The Two Of Them (1986)
the namara group the women's press p/b first printing, first uk edition

cover art by judith clute (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.25
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - The Two Of Them (1979)
berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing

cover art unsigned, uncredited, still sfaik as-yet unattributed
cover price $1.95
184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - The Two Of Them (1978)
berkley putnam h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by norm walker
cover (d-j) price $8.95
228pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Apr 2023
Book
Joanna Russ - We Who Are About To. . . (1987)
the namara group the women's press p/b first printing, not first uk edition (despite erroneous statement in publishing history)

cover art by judith clute (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.50
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


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