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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book David Mason - The Deep Gods (1980)	robert hale & co. first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned cover (d-j) price £4.80 188pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book David Mason - The Deep Gods (1973)	lancer books simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by charles moll (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in denholm's lancer books checklist, science fiction collector/megavore 10, 1980) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. 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 1973 in indicia and bear 6-73 printing date on p.192 month of publication also taken from william j. denholm iii's lancer books checklist
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book David Mason - The Shores Of Tomorrow (1971)	lancer books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by james (jim) steranko (signed steranko, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 240pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Robert Holdstock - The Bull Chief (1977)	berserker trilogy #2: #1: ''shadow of the wolf'' robert holdstock as by chris carlsen (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Robert Holdstock - The Horned Warrior (1979)	berserker trilogy #3: #1: ''shadow of the wolf'' robert holdstock as by chris carlsen (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Key Word And Other Mysteries (1982)	contents: (''the disappearing man'' added to the pan books piccolo imprint p/b) the key man (1977: original to the walker & co. h/cvr first edition of this collection) santa claus gets a coin (short story) boys life 12/1975 sarah tops (ss) boys life 2/1975 the thirteenth day of christmas (ss) ellery queen's mystery magazine 7/1977 a case of need (ss) young world magazine 10/1975 the disappearing man (ss) boys life 6/1978
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Key Word And Other Mysteries (1982)	pan books piccolo imprint p/b first uk edition, first thus mostly reprint collection of six larry, boy detective stories. cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, on geofftaylor-artist.com/galleries/) (interior b+w illustrations by rod burke possibly included, but i didn't think to check for them) cover price (scratched out) 96pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron (1988)	wm. collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, third printing of the panther books setting, with grafton replacing granada and panther throughout; still published on the panther books isbn cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover) (see also geofftaylor-artist.com/galleries/) cover price £3.50, $9.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand 288pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in indicia publishing history, taken from locus cover art is very atypical of geoff taylor's usual style, and detracted from by the unsympathetic colour used for the typography
ppint. 15th Mar 2023		Book Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron (1979)	granada publishing ltd. panther books imprint p/b second panther books printing, with new cover art by peter gudynas (unsigned, credited on back cover) adds granada publishing ltd. as publisher, which replaces panther in some places in this printing cover price 95p, £1.04½ republic of ireland, $3.25 australia, $2.95 new zealand, $3.25 canada 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Demons Of Sandorra (1970)	the 426 at the top of the spine is the (i)sbn publisher identifier for universal-tandem ltd. which suggests that this printing was imported into the yuk-of-gb-&-ni by them, as well as distributed in the usa by merkin distributors; the small ''MAC'' at the top fly corner identifies the primary merkin news distributors (wholesalers); some copies in the states have this obscured, which may indicate stocks remained after universal publishing and distribution, inc. changed their primary news distributor.
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Demons Of Sandorra (1970)	universal publishing and distribution award books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by hieronymus bosch (''the garden of earthly delights'' a detail (section of a panel) from the triptych; my identification) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Torture Machine (1969)	the hunters #3: #1: ''the doomsday brain'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Torture Machine (1969)	pyramid books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by j. (joseph) lombardero (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Doomsday Brain (1968)	the hunters #1: #1: ''the doomsday brain'' (1967), (this novel) #2: ''the invisible eye'' (1967), q.v. #3: ''the torture machine'' (1968), q.v.
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Invisible Eye (1969)	the hunters #2: #1: ''the doomsday brain'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Invisible Eye (1969)	universal-tandem publishing tandem books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art uncredited cover price 4/- 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Invisible Eye (1967)	pyramid books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by joseph lombardero (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Doomsday Brain (1968)	universal-tandem publishing tandem books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by panos (signed, uncredited; not as-yet further identified) cover price 3/6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Doomsday Brain (1967)	pyramid books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by richard smith (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Survivors (1964)	world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books imprint p/b first printing cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3'6 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising, mail-order details
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - The Cleft (1969)	walter reade organization pyramid books imprint mmpb first printing cover art by jeff jones (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Mar 2023		Book Paul Tabori - Harry Price: Ghost-hunter (1974)	sphere books p/b first printing sphere's dennis wheatley library of the occult series #7 first published in h/cvr by athenium books, london 1950 (credited) cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 60p (overseas territories' prices?) 320pp.(?), 12pp. photo plates on better paper = 332pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Mar 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel (1977)	serialised in argosy 4, 5, 6, and 7/1943; reprinted in fantastic novels magazine vol.4 #2, 7/1950; with three b+w illustrations by virgil finlay
ppint. 13th Mar 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Earth's Last Citadel (1983)	berkley publishing group ace books imprint mmpb first printing, stated second printing - - which it is, of the grosset & dunlap charter communications re-set ace books mmpb edition; - but it's the third ace books mmpb printing over-all cover art by bob layzell (unsigned°, uncredited; re-used from ''100 years of science fiction'' ed. damon knight (pan books, london 1977), q.v.) ° - but bears a non-obviously significant ''B''. . . cover price $2.25 152pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Mar 2023		Book Ron Goulart - Flux And The Tin Angel (1979)	fontana / fontana on fly title or title page; fontana imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition thus, first uk p/b edition of each short novel first published thus in uk h/cvr by millington books (1978), q.v. cover art unsigned, uncredited (clearly by peter ''paj'' andrew jones to my eye on stylistic grounds) cover price £1.35 (no other territories' prices) 256pp. including 4 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, ''flux'' pp. 1-127, ''the tin angel'' pp. 129-251; 1 blank end p.
ppint. 12th Mar 2023		Book Beverley Nichols - The Tree That Sat Down (1975)	collins group/wm. collins sons (re-check) lions imprint p/b (collins bought gordon landsborough's may fair books ltd., including the armada books imprint and list, subsumed bits into different parts of the collins group, and i'm not yet sure of the exact order of the changes in the armada, armada lions, collins lions, process - or, indeed, if there was a single exact process...) (it's why there's an armada lions lion logo hiding on the front cover - they kept this, though they don't seem to've kept the may fair books imprint going long - or the apparently related icon/ikon imprint going at all.) cover art by erik blegvad (yes, really) (signed, iirc uncredited) b+w interior illustrations cover price pp. later collins/fontana lions p/b editions were abridged, but this unabridged edition may have seen reprints.
ppint. 12th Mar 2023		Book John Brunner - Times Without Number (1981)	re-reading it after three decades, yr hmbl srppnt. can confirm that my blurb on the back of the hamlyn paperbacks edition is a fair indicator of the book; the cover art is, er, ''somewhat overpowering'', but it's a perfectly reasonable representation of one of the major episode's scenes - and it shouldn't be surprising it's - rather restrainédly, for him - ''fairly melvynesque''.
ppint. 12th Mar 2023		Book Karl Zeigfreid - Radar Alert (1963)	john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art by henry fox (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising karl zeigfreid (note precise spelling of surname) is/was one of r. l. (lionel) fanthorpe's pseudonyms.
ppint. 11th Mar 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Kings Of Space (1954)	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover art by stead, interior illustrations also by stead (mostly signed, credited) cover price 7/6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards stead = leslie stead's most usual by-line and signature
ppint. 11th Mar 2023		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Return To Mars (1980)	pan books ltd. piccolo imprint p/b first printing cover art by bob fowke (unsigned?, credited on back cover) cover price 75p 144pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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