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ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Colum MacConnell - Tark And The Golden Tide (1977)	nordon industries leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by ken barr (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.50 160pp including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Martin Caidin - Cyborg (1972)	warner paperback library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.25 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Martin Caidin - Cyborg (1974)	granada publishing group mayflower books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by richard clifton-dey cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.95 canada 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising bears sbn on front cover, plus printed pinked-edge red roundel ''now filmed for tv as the $6,000,000 man''
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Martin Caidin - Cyborg (1973)	howard & wyndham w. h. allen imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover d-j art (unsigned, may be credited on d-j) cover d-j price (not visible on ex-library rebound copy) 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1968)	leslie frewin h/cvrs of this era bear hutchinson publishing group block (i)sbn prefixes; but i do not know whether leslie frewin was an imprint owned by hutchinson, or by london weekend television (who bought the hutchinson publishing group), or an independent uk publishers using the services of the group to have their books printed, bound and distributed° ''more research required: please provide funding for the appropriate m.a. (bibliophile) degree course.'' ° - to increase the amount of work being done by each separately-accounted and -costed part of a corporate publishers, any and all of these activities might be offered commercially to outside publishing houses. this - done correctly - could significantly improve the economics of the corporate publishers - as well as providing opportunities for empire-building and intra-publishing house feuds, vendettas, coups, etc. - and facilitating asset-stripping hostile takeovers. . .
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Beth Lewis - The Wolf Road (2017)	harpercollins uk the borough press imprint general p/b first printing exact day of publication from the borough press, harpercollins uk website cover price £7.99 400pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 7th Feb 2023		Book Beth Lewis - The Wolf Road (2016)	harpercollins uk the borough press h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with the borough press yp/b first printing paperback binding of the same signatures exact day of publication from the borough press, harpercollins uk website cover (d-j) price £12.99 400pp. including titles, indicia etc. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Men From P.i.g. And R.o.b.o.t. (1982)	pearson group penguin group puffin books imprint p/b second printing with new, serious adventure sf cover art by peter ''paj'' andrew jones (can't really see the paj+date, under the ''harry harrison'' on the front cover, credited as peter jones on back cover) cover price 85p, (overseas territories prices?) 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from 1983 near-identical puffin books p/b third printing which differs: cover price £1.25, (overseas territories prices?) indicia publishing history bears line stating reprinted 1982, 1983 there may've been further puffin books - or penguin books - printings; i think i remember it reaching £1.95 or even £2.50 when i decided not to restock it as over-priced.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Men From P.i.g. And R.o.b.o.t. (1978)	pearson group penguin group puffin books imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art by peter edwards (unsigned, credited on back cover: very silly, as befits the book) cover price 50p, $1.50 australia 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Men From P.i.g. And R.o.b.o.t. (1974)	contents: the graduates (short story, pt. one) 1974 the man from p.i.g. (novelette) analog vol. xxix #5, 7/1967, or possibly the 1968 expansion the graduates (short story, pt. two) 1974 the man from r.o.b.o.t. (ntte) analog vol. xxxiii #5, 7/1969 the graduates (short story, pt. three) 1974 i do not know which text of the man from p.i.g. is included, the magazine-published original or the camelot p/b-published expansion
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Men From P.i.g. And R.o.b.o.t. (1974)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first edition ''non-fix-up'' of two previously-published novelettes with an inter-leaved new framing story cover d-j art (unsigned, may be credited) very pink - as befits the (r.o.b.o.t.ic p.I.g.) in pride of place cover d-j price £1.95 144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Man From P.I.G. (1968)	expansion of the man from p.i.g. (novelette) analog vol. lxxix #5, 7/1967; the cover story, art by john schoenherr, with three b+w illustrations also by john schoenherr later subsumed into ''the men from p.i.g. and r.o.b.o.t.'' (1974), q.v.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Man From P.I.G. (1968)	hearst corporation avon books group camelot imprint mmpb° first printing, first edition cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, credited) b+w interior illustrations by john schoenherr (unsigned, credited) cat# ZS136 cover price 60¢ 128pp. (check) including 10pp. titles, indicia etc, b+w illustrations etc., end pp. ° - i dimly remember this remaining in print for ages, having line-drawn illustrated endpapers and being on heavier, higher quality paper, for the b+w illustrations to print properly: so it may've been a trade p/b rather than a mass-market paperback, and have been reprinted a number of times
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Harry Harrison - The Deathworld Omnibus (1999)	little, brown & co. (uk) orbit books imprint b-format omnibus p/b first printing, first uk edition omnibus of ''deathworld'' aka ''deathworld 1'' (1960), ''the ethical engineer'' aka ''deathworld 2'' (1964), & ''deathworld three'' aka ''the horse barbarians'' (1968) cover art by jay hurst (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £7.99 480pp. including x pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, 2pp. nf introduction by the author (1999), no extra end pp.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - Night Of Delusions (1972)	g. p. putnam's sons h/cvr first printing, first edition cover d-j art by richard powers (signed powers laz/org, uncredited save perhaps on d-j flap) cover d-j price $5.95 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given in publishing history, taken from printer's code on d-j front flap
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - Night Of Delusions (1974)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb apparently first printing from indica publishing history°°; may be first p/b edition°, may be misdated second printing°° cover art by richard powers (signed powers laz/org, uncredited; shared from the g. p. putnam's sons h/cvr first edition d-j)°°° cover price 95¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - but possibly actually contains the wrong book! - see comment to 12/1974 printing °° - the form of the cat#, a five-digit string with no price code letter prefix, suggests that this may actually be the second printing, with the correct novel's text, but publication year not updated and should be 1975 - perhaps... °°° - but this also makes it likely that this is the earlier printing: - ''further research required; please provide m.a.(bibliog.) course funding''
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - Night Of Delusions (1974)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing(?), possibly first p/b edition° cover art by (unsigned, uncredited sfaik; looks paul lehr-ish, but this is not an attribution) cover price 95¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - according to keith laumer, one of these - presumably the earlier - actually contains a completely different novel, ''the man in question'' by john godey, as a result of an error at the printers & binders or at berkley books; this would explain why there were two berkley medallion mmpb editions and of different extents published in different covers in the one year.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - The Undefeated (1974)	contents: worldmaster (novelette) worlds of tomorrow vol. 3 #4, 11/1965; three b+w illustrations by john giunta the night of the trolls (novella) worlds of tomorrow vol.1 #4, 10/1963; with three b+w illustrations by nochem yeshaya nodel; a bolo story later expanded into the novel ''the stars must wait'' (1990), q.v. thunderhead (ntte) galaxy vol.25 #4, 4/1967; three b+w illustrations by gray morrow end as a hero (ntte) galaxy vol.21 #5, 6/1963; the cover story, art by richard mckenna (apparently not the author of this name), and two b+w illustrations by george schelling
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - The Glory Game (1974)	robert hale & co. h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited) cover (d-j) price £1.90 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Keith Laumer - The Glory Game (1973)	popular library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art (unsigned, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising date of publication not given in the indicia, 11-73 printer's date is on p.222
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Unspeakable People (1970)	popular library mmpb undated° first printing, first merkin edition of ''the unspeakable people'' cover art unsigned, looks to be a detail from a classical painting of the beheaded john the baptist cover price 75¢ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. ° - entered year from sequence of popular library cat#s and comparison of cover prices
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1970)	popular library undated° mmpb first printing, first p/b edition of ''the midnight people'' cover art major detail of ''death and the master'' hieronymus bosch (reportedly; though if so, misidentified as being by michelangelo merisi da caravaggio) cover price 75¢ 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising ° entered year from sequence of popular library cat#s & comparison of prices of their p/bs of this extent
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Evil People (1975)	everest books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by john holmes cover price 50p, $1.90 australia, $1.60 new zealand, $1.95 canada 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Evil People (1970)	popular library mmpb undated° first printing, first merkin edition of ''the evil people'' cover art by stanley zuckerberg (signed zuckerberg, uncredited; re-used from popular library SP329 ''the great mischief'' josephine pinckney c.1964) cover price 75¢ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, introduction etc, end p. advertising ° - publication year by interpolation of cat#s sequence and popular library price of p/bs of this extent
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Evil People (1974)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Evil People (1974)	ensign books (?wdl (manchester) ltd?) p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed) cover price 30p, 7.50s east africa, 75c south africa, 95c australia, $1.00 new zealand 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, end pp.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1968)	leslie frewin h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint anthology of a novel excerpt, nine short stories and three novelettes, introduction by the editor cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited) cover d-j price 25/- 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1968)	author field should^W has now been varied to editor.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1974)	ensign books (?wdl (manchester) ltd?°) p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art (unsigned, may be credited) cover price 30p, 7.50s east africa, 75c south africa, 95c australia, $1.00 new zealand 256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., end p. ° - the sbn publisher code is that for world distributors (manchester) ltd, but i'm not certain ensign books was technically an imprint of theirs, rather than - legally - one they distributed.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Midnight People (1968)	leslie frewin h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint vampire anthology of a novel excerpt, thirteen short stories, two novelettes, and two essays, with introduction by the editor cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited) cover (d-j) price 30/- 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, introduction, etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards

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