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ppint. 28th Mar 2023		Book Jassy Davis - Winter Warmers (2020)	harpercollinspublishers small format h/cvr first printing, first edition 1 london bridge street, london se1 9gf cover art by sarah ferone (unsigned, credited on back cover) interior colour & b+w illustrations also by sarah ferone (unsigned, credited on front cover, title page, indicia) cover price £9.99, $19.99 can(ada), $14.99 us (why the bar-code of a primarily uk h/cvr should encode the merkin cover price is anyone's guess...) refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish between at least three near-identical printings
ppint. 28th Mar 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Defiance (2023)	''foreigner'' sequence #22: #1: ''foreigner'' c. j. cherryh (1994), q.v. for series listing, and links. not yet published; appearing a year later than it might've, because of an auctorial oversight. date due and other details advised by daw books on their new chinese owners', astra's, website.
ppint. 28th Mar 2023		Book Robert Graves - Hercules, My Shipmate (1945)	Review graves' retelling of the legend of jason and the argonauts from the point of view of one of them, based upon the presumption that the legend was based upon a historical event - which it may well have been; and quite possibly more than one, probably bronze age, expedition(s) primarily in search of the fabled wealth of colchis on the shores of the black sea - and to loot whatever of it, or aught else, they could. the technique of filtering alluvial particles of gold from the waters of becks and rivers using sheeps' fleeces is both practical, and known to've been used in that area (and elsewhere); and was still in use in places in the second half of the 20th century c.e.° (° - yr hmbl srppnt. s'spects, but does not know, that this continues into the first half of the 21st century c.e.) unfortunately, while the adventure story is exciting, and its and the background details are definitely intetesting, the characters of the main players don't come alive off the page: how to portray the members of a crew of ''heroes'' who are essentially ~eighteen-to-thirty year old armed thugs a-viking as significantly different from one another, and at least one or two of them as sympathetic characters - to anyone who isn't of a similar thuggish mind-set - hopefully, most of his readers - was a skill robert graves hadn't yet learned. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 28th Mar 2023		Book Robert Graves - Hercules, My Shipmate (1945)	creative age press h/cvr first printing, first merkin edition retitling of ''the golden fleece'' (cassel & co. h/cvr 1944, q.v.) cover (d-j) art (signed ''moose'', may be credited; else not sfaiaa further obviously identified) cover (d-j) price $3.00 476pp. (check) including x pp. titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 28th Mar 2023		Book Robert Graves - The Golden Fleece (1944)	cassel & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art cover (d-j): price 12/6 376pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, 1 blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards aka (merkin title) ''hercules, my shipmate'' (1945 & ff.)
ppint. 27th Mar 2023		Book Germán Arciniegas - Biografia Caraibelor (1978)	book one.
ppint. 27th Mar 2023		Book Arthur C. Clarke - Earthlight (1974)	pan books or pan macmillan pan imprint p/b seventh printing, with new (since the fifth or sixth printings) cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from the ballantine books mmpb printings from 6/1972 onwards of this novel°) cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.05 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - it is credited to dean ellis in the 11/1973 & ff. printing of the ballantine mmpb, but not - apparently - necessarily credited in earlier printings.
ppint. 27th Mar 2023		Book Arthur C. Clarke - Earthlight (1971)	pan books p/b fourth printing with new cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box, uncredited) cover price 25p, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 80c new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Daybreak (1969)	charter communications, inc.(prob'ly) ace books imprint mmpb undated° fifth printing cover art unsigned, uncredited; retained from previous four ace books mmpb printings cover price 60¢ 184pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - date from stuart wells' ace books notebooks compiled whilst he worked there
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Daybreak (1968)	ace books mmpb undated° fourth printing, including the half ''ace double'' first mmpb p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from the three earlier printings cover price 50¢ 184pp. including titles, indirca etc, end pp. advertising ° - stated third printing iirc, publication year date by interpolation into dates ace cat#s sequence of known dates
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Daybreak (1965)	ace books mmpb undated° third printing (stated), including the half ''ace double'' mmpb first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; retained from ace books first & second mmpb printings cover price 40¢ 184pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - date year taken from donald h. tuck's ''encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy through 1968'' (three volumes, 1974 through 1982), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Daybreak (1961)	ace books mmpb undated° second printing (stated), including the 1954 half ''ace double'' mmpb first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; retained from the half ''ace double'' first mmpb printing cover price 35¢ 184pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° 1961-2 by interpolation of cat# into sequence of known ace books mmpb publication dates
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Groff Conklin - Selected Stories From Science-Fiction Adventures In Mutation (1965)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first thus derivative reprint anthology of 2 novelettes and 12 short stories drawn from the 14 short stories and 6 novelettes of the vanguard press 1955 h/cvr first edition, ''science-fiction adventures in mutation'', q.v. cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Valley Of The Flame (1964)	also published in the omnibus ''the startling worlds of henry kuttner'' henry kuttner (1987), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Dark World (1965)	also published in omnibus ''the startling worlds of henry kuttner'' henry kuttner (1987), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - Beyond Earth's Gates (1954)	also published in book form as ''the portal in the picture'' as by henry kuttner, c. l. moore, in ''the startling worlds of henry kuttner'' henry kuttner (1987), q.v. and also published in ebook format as ''beyond earth's gates'' by c. l. moore (2012), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - Beyond Earth's Gates (1954)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers contents tête-beché to one another cover art by harry barton (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from now-defunct munchkinpress website) cover price 35¢ ½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with ''daybreak - 2250 a.d.'' andre norton (1947), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Daybreak (1954)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to one another cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 35¢ ½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with ''beyond earth's gates'' lewis padgett, c. l. moore (1954), q.v.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Andre Norton - Star Man's Son (1952)	harcourt, brace and co. h/cvr first printing, first edition - so stated in publishing history cover (d-j) art by nicolas mordvinoff (credited on d-j front), b+w interior illustrations also by him cover (d-j) price $2.75 248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical further printings, using an alphabetical letter system where b=2nd, c=3rd.. ..g=7th printing, etc.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Startling Worlds Of Henry Kuttner (1987)	contents: ''henry kuttner and startling stories (and c. l. moore)'' (nf introduction) baird searles ''the portal in the picture'' henry kuttner, c. l. moore, (as ''beyond earth's gates'' lewis padgett, c. l. moore (1954), q.v., credited to c. l. moore alone in e-book (2012), q.v.) (originally published in startling stories vol.20 #1, 9/1949 as by henry kuttner alone) ''valley of the flame'' henry kuttner (1964), q.v. (startling stories vol.13 #2, 3/1946 as by keith hammond) ''the dark world'' henry kuttner (1965), q.v. (startling stories vol.14 #1, summer (7)/1946) the above publishing history both illustrates the mixed-up mess of confusion into which henry kuttner and c. l. moore's, and henry kuttner's, and c. l. moore's writing is - mostly - from the start of their beginning to collaborate - inextricably knotted; - c. l. moore later attempted to identify those stories she could remember were mostly or entirely his work, and those which were mostly or entirely hers, but she was unable to do this for many more; - and also why it's not possible to state that all stories published as by ''lewis padgett'' were written by kuttner and moore, together - nor, that all were by kuttner writing alone.
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Startling Worlds Of Henry Kuttner (1987)	popular library questar series mmpb first printing, first edition thus cover art by david b. mattingly (signed dave mattingly, credited) isbn canada 0-445-20329-3 on spine cover price $4.95 canada cover price $3.95 u.s. 368pp. (check) including titles, indicia, ''henry kuttner and startling stories (and c. l. moore)'' nf introduction by baird searles etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Mar 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Well Of The Worlds (1965)	ace books mmpb first printing, first small pocketbook format mmpb printing, not first p/b edition cover art by alex schomburg (signed, credited) interior b+w illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his diptych, uncredited) cover price 40¢ 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book L. Sprague De Camp - The Best Of L. Sprague De Camp (1978)	some high hundreds to very low thousands of copies of presumédly the wholly merkin-printed copies were imported by futura publications and distributed in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni (and prob'ly a little beyond, unofficially) bearing a round-cornered white peelable label with their uk price (of 90p?) on it in black.
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book L. Sprague De Camp - The Best Of L. Sprague De Camp (1978)	contents: l. sprague de camp -- engineer and sorceror (nf introduction) poul anderson hyperpilosity (short story) astounding vol. xxi #2, 4/1938 where table-of-contents-listed as ''hyperpelosity'' language for time-travellers (fnf article) astounding vol. xxi #5, 6/1938 the command (ss) astounding vol. xxii #2, 10/1938 the merman (ss) astounding vol. xxii #4, 12/1938, the cover story, art by charles schneeman employment (ss) astounding vol. xxi #3, 5/1938 the gnarly man (novelette) unknown vol.1 #4, 6/1939 with a b+w illustration by ed cartier reward of virtue (poem) f&sf vol.39 #3, 9/1970 nothing in the rules (ntte) unknown vol.1 #5, 7/1939 the hardwood pile (ntte) unknown vol. iv #1, 9/1840 with two b+w illustrations by r. isip the reluctant shaman (ss) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxx #1, 4/1947 the inspector's teeth (ss) astounding vol. xxxxv #2, 4/1950 with two b+w illustrations by ed cartier the guided man (ntte) startling stories vol.27 #3, 10/1952 the ameba (poem) yandro 12/1973 judgment day (ss) astounding vol. lv #6, 8/1955 with two b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas a gun for dinosaur (ntte) galaxy vol.11 #5, 3/1956; galaxy bre #38; both with three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller the emperor's fan (ntte) in ''astounding: john w. campbell memorial anthology'' ed. harry harrison (1973) two yards of dragon (ntte) in ''flashing swords 3: warriors and wizards'' ed. lin carter (1976) the little green men (poem) fantasy crossroads #7, 2/1976 author's afterword (nf) l. sprague de camp
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Diane Duane - The Book Of Night With Moon (1999)	warner books warner/aspect imprint mmpb first printing, first mmpb edition cover art by robert goldstrom (unsigned, credited, retained from warner aspect tp/b first merkin edition) cover design by don puckey (credited) cover price $6.50 ($8.50 canada) 456pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Diane Duane - The Book Of Night With Moon (1997)	warner books warner/aspect imprint tp/b first printing, first merkin edition cover art by robert goldstrom (unsigned, credited) cover design by don puckey (credited) cover price $12.95, canada $16.95 400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, introduction (nf-ish); afterword (nf), a very partial ailurin glossary (nf-within-f); all nf also by diane duane distinguish from the near-identical 3/1998 merkin science fiction book club edition bound up from the same signatures° for sale only to book club and associated clubs' members; not for supply by the publishers nor by way of distributors nor retailers to the general public sfbc cat# 01205 on d-j back cover cover (d-j) price (none) ($10.98 to club members) ° and therefore - misleadingly - bears the warner aspect tp/b isbn etc. on the indicia page and which just happens to be bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - Nina's Book (1967)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition (possibly 1st uk edn) cover art cover price 5s. 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - Nina's Book (1965)	houghton mifflin h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (?) cover (d-j) price 400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - The Ninth Wave (1956)	houghton miflin & co. hcvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (?) cover (d-j) price $3.95 336pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - The 480 (1965)	dell publishing dell books imprint mmpb, at least two near-identical printings cover art by james bama (unsigned, credited) cover price 85¢ 324pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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