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ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Colum MacConnell - Tark And The Golden Tide (1977)	cover art by don maitz: unsigned, uncredited, but re-used from ''flashing swords #4: barbarians and black magicians'' ed. lin carter (dell 11/1977; so the trojan publications p/b must be later), where it is signed, and the art is re-used in the ''don maitz fantasy art trading card set'' entitled ''warrior wizard'' (friedlander 1994).
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kathleen Sky - Witchdame (1985)	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by don maitz (unsigned, credited; reproduced larger, sans typography in ''first maitz'' don maitz (1988), q.v.) cover price ($3.25 canada) • $2.95 u.s. 336pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Milton Lesser - Secret Of The Black Planet (1965)	thank-you jimess: i promise not to hold you responsible for the cover art images you provide, no matter how poor the cover - or even, how dreadful!
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kim Newman - Doctor Who Novellas: Time And Relative (2001)	doctor who novellas (telos publishing series) #1: #1: ''time and relative'' kim newman (2001), (this book) #2: ''citadel of dreams'' dave stone (2002), q.v. #3: ''nightdreamers'' tom arden (2002), q.v. #4: ''ghost ship'' keith topping (2002), q.v. #5: ''foreign devils'' andrew cartmel (2002), q.v. #6: ''rip tide'' louise cooper (2003), q.v. #7: ''wonderland'' mark chadbourn (2003), q.v. #8: ''shell shock'' simon a. forward (2003), q.v. #9: ''the cabinet of light'' daniel o'mahony (2003), q.v. #10: ''fallen gods'' jonathan blum, kate orman (2003), q.v. #11: ''the eye of the tyger'' paul (j.) mcauley (2003), q.v. #12: ''frayed'' stephen cole, as by ''tara samms'' (2003), q.v. #13: ''companion piece'' robert perry, mike tucker (2003), q.v. #14: ''blood and hope'' iain mclaughlin (2004), q.v. #15: ''the dalek factor'' simon clark (2004), q.v.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Kim Newman - Doctor Who Novellas: Time And Relative (2001)	contents: in the beginning (nf introduction) justin richards time and relative (novella/short novel) kim newman elemental, my dear susan (nf afterword) justin richards
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Kim Newman - Doctor Who Novellas: Time And Relative (2001)	telos publishing h/cvr first printing, first edition; near-identical possible second printing cover art (none; cover is typographical) isbn 1-903889-02-2 cover price (none printed; £10?) isbn 1-903889-03-0 (may be separate second printing, 3/2002) cover price $17.95 u.s. (?printed on peelable label with isbn, on back cover ?) 128pp. including titles, indicia, foreword & afterword, etc.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Richard Molesworth - Wiped! (2010)	telos publishing tp/b first printing, first edition cover art by lee thompson, barry newbery (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £15.99, $35.00 australia, $31.95 canada, $29.95 u.s. 480pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book David J. Howe - The Target Book (2007)	telos publishing tp/b first printing, first edition (100-copy h/cvr limited edition bound up from same print run signatures: white cover with titles etc. in gold on spine, large target logo roundel on front, £50.00) cover art by alister pearson cover price £19.99, $49.95 australia & new zealand, $49.95 canada, $39.95 u.s. 176pp. including titles, indicia, etc.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	author field should^W has been varied to editor.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	see the pocket books mmpb edition for the full contents list.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	the woburn press h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, not first h/cvr edition (was harper & row 1974, q.v.) thematic mostly original, partly reprint anthology of three novelettes and ten short stories, introduction by isaac asimov cover (d-j) art (none: d-j is wholly typographical on red field, designed by lawrence edwards) cover (d-j) price £3.50 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	author field should^W has been varied to editor.
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	contents: why me? (nf introduction) isaac asimov on venus, have we got a rabbi (novelette) william tenn (habitual pseudonym of philip klass) (orig.) the golem (short story) avram davidson, f&sf vol.8 #5, 3/1955 unto the fourth generation (ss) isaac asimov, f&sf vol.16 #4, 4/1959; venture bre #16, 12/1964 look, you think you've got troubles (ss) carol carr, in ''orbit 5'' ed. damon knight (1969), q.v. goslin day (ss) avram davidson, in ''orbit 6'' ed. damon knight (1970), q.v. the dybbuk of mazel tov iv (ss) robert silverberg (orig.) trouble with water (ss) horace l. gold, unknown vol.1 #1, 3/1939 as by ''h. l. gold'' gather blue roses (ss) pamela sargent, f&sf vol.42 #2, 2/1972 the jewbird (ss) bernard malamud, the reporter (new york biweekly magazine) 11/4/1963 paradise lost (ntte) geo. alec effinger (orig.) street of dreams, feet of clay (ss) robert sheckley, galaxy vol.26 #3, 2/1968 with three b+w illustrations by vaughn bodé jachid and jachida (ss) isaac bashevis singer, translation of ''yahid un yehida'' in ''die goldene keyt'' (1964), translation by isaac bashevis singer & elizabeth pollett i'm looking for kadak (ntte) harlan ellison (orig.) ellison's grammatical guide and glossary for goyim (nf) harlan ellison (orig.) evsise, the grouchmoid (cartoon) tim kirk (orig.) (orig.) = publication original to this anthology
ppint. 22nd Mar 2023		Book Jack Dann - Wandering Stars (1975)	pocket books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition thematic anthology of three novelettes and ten short stories, introduction by isaac asimov mostly original, partly reprint anthology cover art by charles moll (signed with stylised ''cm'', credited) cover price $1.50 256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner (2003)	byron preiss' ibooks imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art unsigned (retained from ibooks tp/b (2002), q.v.) cover price $6.99 u.s. (?canadian price ?c.$8.99?) 256pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. distributed by and manufactured via simon & schuster/pocket books, hence pocket books group isbn
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner (2002)	byron preiss' ibooks imprint first printing, first trade p/b edition, not first merkin p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; cover design by dean motter (credited on back cover) cover price $12.00 u.s., $18.50 can.(ada) 256pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. distributed by, and manufactured via simon & schuster/pocket books, hence pocket books isbn
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner (1979)	dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, hcvr edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited for jacket design on d-j flap) cover (d-j) price £4.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner (1969)	ace books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, from a press/pr/still from the t.v. series cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Anthony Crockett - Green Beret Red Star (1958)	streamline publications superior books imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art (signed, but illegible to yr hmbl srppnt. - perhaps, biand ford (blandford?)) cover price 2'- (c. 160pp?)
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book Oliver Moxon - Bitter Monsoon (1958)	streamline publications superior books imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition first published in h/cvr in 1955 by robert hale, london cover art unsigned, uncredited; not sfaiaa as-yet attributed cover price 2'- (c. 160pp?)
ppint. 21st Mar 2023		Book John E. Muller - In The Beginning (1962)	john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition john spencer & co. ''john e. muller'' house name here used on a novel by john s. glasby cover art by henry fox (unsigned (well, signature obscured by publisher), uncredited; attribution from signature on vega books re-use of the same art, on which the signature is clearly visible) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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

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