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ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - L'embryon	the only date i could see was the original copyright date of 1976, which may also be the date of this translation, but i do not know this to be so.
ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - L'embryon	éditions feu vert, montreal, canada, p/b edition novelisation of the screenplay by anita doohan and jack w. thomas cover art unsigned, from the warner books mmpb first edition cover art cover price (?) 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Embryo (1977)	b. wahlström publishers kalla kårar, ryslig midnattslasnig series #47 novelisation of the screenplay by anita doohan and jack w. thomas cover art unsigned photographic (? image from the film?) cover price kr 6.95 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Embryo (1976)	entered cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 86-004 as per the cat# in the cover image.
ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Embryo (1976)	warner books mmpb near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition film novelisation based on the screenplay by anita doohan and jack w. thomas cover art (unsigned, uncredited probably press/pr/still image from the sandy howard film) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: february, 1976
ppint. 19th Mar 2023		Book Colin Kapp - The Tyrant Of Hades (1984)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0711250025000919 break-down of ''0-71125-00250-00919'': ''0'' identifies: english language ''71125'' - id. no. of main distributor ''00250'' - cover price in (merkin) cents ''00919'' - book core cat# (n.b. excludes isbn checksum digit, which is additional to the core cat#) n.b. in this particular merkin eccentricity, usage or abusage of the system, in which the main mmpb distributor - or news wholesaler - is identified rather than the publisher, only the final element is unique to the particular book (and then, only within the specific distributor or wholesaler's catalogue - and at around that specific time). (an equivalent merkin eccentricity, usage or abusage of the system was also committed for around the same time by some other publishers, save that they used their isbn system publisher code, rather than their main, primary or sole news wholesaler's (possibly not strictly isbn system?) code.) - later on, as the news wholesalers domination of the mass-market paperback continued to decline, this weird way declined with it, falling into line with usage elsewhere in the english language world of publishing and distribution: 0- (or 1-) identifying the english language; the next element identifying the publisher; the next element the book's core cat# followed by the isbn10 checksum digit (after the introduction of the isbn13, the whole is prefixed with 978-, which changes this final checksum digit); and then, in a stroke of genius, the separate block is used to encode the cover price in merkin cents in five digits (in north america); - as it was used for the cover price in yuk-of-gb-&-nionion pence in the uk and commonwealth. - variations may exist for xxxxian & kiwiiiian publishers; there doesn't seem to be one for canadadian publishers, possibly because the history of the canadian publishing industry has largely - though not entirely - consisted of yuk & merkin h/cvr publishers buying up initially independent local publishers, or establishing local subsidiaries of their own, and treating them as minor adjuncts of the much larger home publishing houses: - merkin mass-market paperback publishers, for example, habitually add a canadian cover price to the colour-printed card covers - but do not give a separate canadadian-flagged bar-code block incorporating this numerically different cover price as a scannable alternative to a stars'n'stripes-flagged merkin block: - either canadadian bookshop tills are set up with the local cover prices automagically totted up when the merkin bar-code is read - or maybe canadadian bookshop clerks are smarter than their merkin counterparts, and read (and key in) the right cover prices... - ?
ppint. 18th Mar 2023		Book Chris L. Wolf - Fire In The Sky (1981)	robert hale & co. first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by david cordoba (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £6.25 (possibly £6.75 ? - partially scratched through) 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 18th Mar 2023		Book Chris L. Wolf - Fire In The Sky (1978)	major books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.75 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 18th Mar 2023		Book Walter B. Hendrickson Jr. - Class G-Zero (1976)	major books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition chatsworth, nr. canoga park, california cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. the k on a shieldlike shape indicates that the primary news distributor/wholesaler was kable news
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book David Houston - Wingmaster (1981)	main (?possibly only?) published by-line of houston force lumpkin iii. it'd be somewhat perverse to insist upon cataloguing his books other than as by david houston.
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The Time Hoppers (1977)	nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, second printing of belmont tower setting possibly third printing of the original belmont mmpb setting (leisure books was one of the greenleaf books sleaze empire imprints, which started to go somewhat straighter after the original publisher and the editor were prosecuted and jailed for distribution of material through the u.s.mail (possibly prosecutable, because of crossing state boundaries?)) cover art by attila hejja (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''red dust'' david houston (leisure books 1981)) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising declared borne isbn checksum digit calculates out correctly
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The Time Hoppers (1974)	belmont tower imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The Time Hoppers (1988)	victor gollancz ltd. vgsf imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by terry pastor (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The Time-hoppers (1970)	universal-tandem publishing co. ltd. tandem books imprint p/b first uk p/b edition number in isbn10 field is the nine digit sbn actually borne on the back cover (incorporating the cat#) cover art unsigned, uncredited; ive seen it elsewhere and may eventually be able to place this cover price 5/- 25p, 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Mar 2023		Book Paul Jackson - The Big Book Of Yorkshire Humour (2011)	dalesman publishing dalesman imprint p/b first printing, first edition an imprint of country publications ltd. the water mill, broughton hall, skipton bd23 3ag near-identical second printing 2012 cover art by crocker (signed, credited on back cover; back cover likewise; coloured b+w interior illustrations) cover design by design forte (credited on back cover) b+w interior illustrations (cartoons) including frontispiece also by crocker (signed, uncredited), interior b+w cartoons by cw., dawson, diget, egee(?), griff(?), ionicus, barry knowles (?), longstaff, rlmarlow(?), noddi, nodrog, priest, varley(?) (all signed, uncredited), 1 illegible; some unsigned, uncredited cover price £4.99 (no other prices) 128pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents°, introduction by paul jackson, editor of the dalesman, no additional end pp., sewn in signatures, pva-glued into card covers ° contents: (cartoons mostly signed, uncredited;) (all jokes, storysnippets etc. uncredited) sections: heart and home; love & marriage, friends & family you're kidding me; the things children say eat, drink and be merry; food & drink on the menu money talks; shopping and the cost of living on the road; out and about in town and country saints and sinners; vicars and villagers of this parish workers' playtime; work, rest and play
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book T. E. Dikty - 5 Tales From Tomorrow (1957)	two further fawcett publications crest imprint mmpb printings do not use the richard powers cover art.
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book T. E. Dikty - 5 Tales From Tomorrow (1957)	contents: push-button passion (short story) ''albert compton friborg'', pseudonym of bud foote, f&sf vol.7 #1, 7/1954 as ''careless love'' the cold equations (novelette) tom godwin, astounding vol. liii #6, 8/1954 with three b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas, astounding bre vol. xi #1, 1/1955 without illustrations how-2 (ntte) clifford d. simak, galaxy vol.9 #2, 11/1954 with four b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller, galaxy bre #25, 4/1955 with two of the four b+w illustrations deep space (ss) robert abernathy, f&sf vol.6 #1, 1/1954 as ''axolotl'' exile (novella) everett b. cole, astounding vol. lii #5, 1/1954 with four b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas, astounding bre vol. x #6, 6/1954 with five b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas (the fifth illustration isn't signed, but appears to be by him)
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book T. E. Dikty - 5 Tales From Tomorrow (1957)	fawcett publications crest imprint mmpb first printing, first edition thus derivative reprint anthology of two short stories, two novelettes and a novella cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited, attribution from ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank (2001), q.v. cat# s197 cover price 35¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Michael J. Bird - Bedazzled (1968)	thomson books group sphere books imprint p/b first printing cover art unsigned, front & back mainly from press/pr/stills from the stanley donen film cover price 3/6, 4/50 east africa, R 0.45 (as RO.45) south africa, 60c australia, 45c new zealand 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (& list of overseas agents iirc)
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book John Sladek - Tik-Tok (1985)	rather a grisly variety of humour. . .
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Jack Williamson - The Queen Of The Legion (1984)	the legion of space #4: set after the dissolution of the legion: #1: ''the legion of space'' (1947), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Jack Williamson - The Queen Of The Legion (1984)	thomson books group sphere books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned (possibly ian craig or peter gudynas ? - this is not an attribution, obviously) cover price £1.95, £1.95 malta, $6.95 new zealand 284pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Spike Milligan - A Dustbin Of Milligan (1965)	the indica publishing history from the 1974 reprinting strongly suggests that universal publishing and distribution, inc. of new york bought tandem books via a newly set-up uk subsidiary, universal tandem (sometimes ''universal-tandem'') books ltd. in 1967, in time to order a second 1967 reprinting. iirc, the earliest uk p/b edition of ''a dustbin of milligan'' i've seen (so far was) _almost_ identical to this, but didn't mention tandem books as the imprint under which it was published at all... the early history of tandem books ltd. pre-1967 is fairly cloudy, not to say obscure, and difficult to dig into via search engine on these interwebby things: more research is indicated, but may await someone well-intentioned's provision of funds for an ma (bibliophile) year or three.
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Michael Crichton - Westworld (1974)	bantam books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition; near-identical run-on second printing declared special book club edition on cover: book club cat# 9825, no cover price, no cover statement of bantam books imprint, logo nor bantam cat# cover art unsigned composite from the mgm film press/pr/advertising images cover price $1.25 128pp. including titles, indicia, forward (nf) saul david, shooting westworld (nf) michael chrichton, etc. some high hundreds or low thousands of copies imported and distributed by transworld publishers ltd. in the uk-of-gb-&-ni (and prob'ly a little beyond) bearing uk price of 40p printed in black on the front cover
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Michael Crichton - Westworld (1974)	cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to Q8441 as per cover image this is the bantam books cat# by which it was orderable - and in fact was also used by transworld publishers in their (corgi, bantam, black swan etc.) books catalogue as the uk cat# for imported copies.
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Norman Spinrad - Songs From The Stars (1981)	simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings, first p/b edition cover art by mara mcafee (unsigned, uncredited, re-used from simon & schuster h/cvr d-j where credited) cover price $2.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $2.50 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book A. E. Van Vogt - A Van Vogt Omnibus (1967)	sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first thus omnibus edition of ''planets for sale'' e. mayne hull, a.e. van vogt (1954 credited to e. mayne hull; credited to both from 1965 & ff.), ''the beast'' a. e. van vogt (1963), ''the book of ptath'' a. e. van vogt (1947) cover (d-j) art (none: typographical design) cover (d-j) price 30/- 496pp. (check: novels paginated separately) including titles, indicia etc, further half-title pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Jack Williamson - The Cometeers (Omnibus) (1950)	the legion of space trilogy #2 & #3: #1: ''the legion of space'' (1947), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 16th Mar 2023		Book Jack Williamson - The Cometeers (Omnibus) (1950)	fantasy press, reading pennsylvania u.s. first printing, first edition; first thus 500 copies with an extra leaf laid in, signed by jack williamson and numbered; rest (the majority) of the print run unnumbered, unsigned: omnibus of the title novel and the novel, ''one against the legion'' and first edition of both novels cover art by ed (edd) cartier (signed cartier, credited on d-j front flap) frontispiece also by ed cartier, as is the front endpaper illustration cover price $3.00 314pp. (check: 316pp. would be easier to fold...) including unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Jack Williamson - One Against The Legion (1967)	the legion of space trilogy #3: #1: ''the legion of space'' (1947), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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