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ppint. 11th Feb 2023		Book Robert Chilson - The Shores Of Kansas (1977)	robert hale & co. h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by helen hale (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £3.60 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Chilson - Black As Blood (1998)	not entirely serious..
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Chilson - Black As Blood (1998)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by charles keegan (the gravestone bears ... keegan) cover price $5.99 ($7.99 canada) 276pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Chilson - Rounded With Sleep (1990)	popular library mmpb first printing, first edition questar series cover art by tim jacobus cover price $3.95 u.s.a. ($4.95 can(ada)) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Chilson - Men Like Rats (1989)	popular library mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, credited) cover price $3.95 u.s.a. isbn (0445-) 20764-7 canada cover price $4.95 canada 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Bloch - The Dead Beat (1963)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2/6 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 10th Feb 2023		Book Robert Bloch - Blood Runs Cold (1961)	contents: the show must go on (short story) mike shane mystery magazine 1/1960 the cure (ss) playboy 10/1957 daybroke (ss) star science fiction (#1, though unnumbered; the only issue) 1/1958 show biz (ss) ellery queen mystery magazine 5/1959 (given as ''eqmm'' below) the masterpiece (ss) rogue 6/1960 i like blondes (ss) playboy 1/1956 dig that crazy grave! (ss) eqmm vol.29 #6, 6/1957 where the buffalo roam (ss) other worlds (universe)/other worlds #12/#33, 7/1955 is betsy blake still alive? (ss) eqmm 4/1958 word of honor (ss) playboy 8/1958 the final performance (ss) shock vol.1 #3, 9/1960 (without the ''the'') all on a golden afternoon (novelette) f&sf vol.10 #6, 6/1956 the gloating place (ss) rogue 6/1959 the pin (ss) amazing vol.27 # 12/1953-1/1954; amazing strato bre vol.1 #3, 4/1954 i do not love thee, doctor fell (ss) f&sf vol.8 #5, 3/1955 the big kick (ss) rogue 7/1959 sock finish (ss) eqmm 11/1957
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood (1990)	harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint uk p/b, second 1990 printing, fourth grafton uk p/b printing, with new cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.50, $8.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand, $5.95 canada 320pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood (1986)	william collins & sons publishing group grafton books imprint open market p/b edition cover art (by john howe?) of a white owl in flight out of woods towards the viewer differs from the uk (etc.) first p/b cover
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood	orion publishing group gollancz imprint undated° h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition despite indicia publishing history including printing number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ° - only dates given are the copyright and first publication date of 1984, and an assertion in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act, 1988; as this edition bears an isbn13 it must be post-2002 dedication: for sarah cariath ganuch trymllyd bwystfil cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £14.99 304pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia (ha!) etc, perfectbound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards with title, oak leaf, author & VG logo°° in red metallic ink on spine °° despite bearing the VG logo on the spine, the imprint on title page and in the indicia is gollancz
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Weltraum-piraten (1988)	bastei lübbe first printing, first edition (no prior english language edition) cover art by luis royo (unsigned, credited) cover price dm 6,80 (? check; other countries' prices?) 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Weltraum-Friedhof (1988)	bastei lübbe first printing, first edition (no prior english language edition) cover art by luis royo (unsigned, credited) cover price dm 5,80, L6300 italien, f7,85 niederlands, S45,- österreich, Fr5,80 schweitz, P525 spanien 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Weltraum-piraten (1988)	hook series #8: #1: ''whirlpool of stars'' kenneth bulmer as by tully zetford (1974), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Jeff Noon - Vurt (1994)	pan macmillan pan books imprint p/b first printing, first general p/b edition cover art by stuart hunter cover price £4.99, $7.99 canada 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 9th Feb 2023		Book Jeff Noon - Vurt (1993)	ringpull press ltd. ringpull imprint b-format p/b first printing, first edition 86a church street, littleborough ol15 8au dedication: for nick --- totally feathered up, living on the dub side cover art by joe magee (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £5.99 384pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc.°, 7 blank end pp. (° - plus what would be pp.1-6, & pp. 371-378 do not bear page numbers)
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1972)	fawcett publications fawcett crest imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; seen attributed to dean ellis, but no justification for this seen cover price 95¢ 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising at least twelve near-identical printings with rising cover prices, cat# alpha prefix changing with cover price: P2261 $1.25 6/1977 Q2264 0-449-22648-4 $1.50 no printing number given publication date taken from locus 202, 7/1977 Q2648 $1.50 0-449-23805-9 $1.75 cat# on cover given as 2-3805-9 which suggests it was adapted from X23805 (X being fawcett publications' cat# letter prefix to indicate $1.75 cover price as their cataloguing system was changing to being isbn-based) eleventh printing by indicia publishing history printing number line: 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10/1979 0-449-24243-9 $1.95 twelfth printing by indicia publishing history printing number line: 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 publication date taken from locus 226, 11/1979
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1969)	lancer books mmpb fourth printing bears new cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed with his initials in a circle) cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1968)	lancer books mmpb third printing cover art by (frank) kelly freas (retained from lancer books 1966 mmpb printing) cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1966)	lancer books mmpb second printing cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed k.f., uncredited) cover price 50¢ 192pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1958)	bantam books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first mmpb edition, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed° cover price 35¢ 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising 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 bantam edition published march 1958 ° - from style of the innards of the probably positronic person yr hmbl srppnt.'ll hazard this is by richard powers; but this is *not* a definitive attribution
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (1964)	lancer books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition (which was bantam books mmpb (1958), q.v.) lancer science fiction library (first series) cover art by ed emshwiller (signed ''emsh'', uncredited) cover price 50¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 8th Feb 2023		Book Eric Frank Russell - The Great Explosion (1975)	hearst corporation avon books equinox imprint trade p/b first printing, not first merkin p/b sf rediscovery series #9 cover art by chris foss (re-used from granada publishing panther books p/b ''the caves of steel'' isaac asimov (1973 & ff.), q.v.) canadian cat# 23838 cover price $2.25 (canada) cover price $1.95 (us.) 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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.

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