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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
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Unspeakable People (1969)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Peter Haining - The Unspeakable People (1969)	leslie frewin h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint anthology of two novel excerpts, seventeen short stories and a poem (not 20 stories as per the puff-line) with a foreword by august derleth, and a preface by peter haining cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited) cover (d-j) price 30/- 252pp? (check) including titles, indicia, two forwards etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1969)	first printing to bear a cat# in the ace books five-digit system, last to bear the long-retained cover art from the ace double first mmpb printing.
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1969)	ace books mmpb undated° sixth printing cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from previous printings, attributed to harry barton cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date taken from andre-norton.com which gives this as fifth printing, incorrectly
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1966)	ace books undated° mmpb fifth printing, revised cover design retained from third & fourth printings cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from earlier printings, attributed to harry barton cover price 45¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - tuck gives 1967, but this printing places in 1966 in the sequence of ace books cat#s
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1962)	ace books mmpb undated° third printing, cover design changed, shrinking cover art attributed to harry barton retained from previous printings cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date entered in field above presumably taken from donald h. tuck fits into cat# sequence known dates
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1965)	ace books mmpb undated° fourth printing, cat# & cover price changed in design from third printing cover art retained from previous printings attributed to harry barton in ace image library cover price 40¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date entered in field above presumably taken from donald h. tuck
ppint. 6th Feb 2023		Book Andre Norton - The Last Planet (1955)	ace books undated° second mmpb printing, first solo p/b edition cover art retained from half ace double format mmpb first p/b printing, unsigned, uncredited attributed to harry barton in ace image library cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - publication date assigned in field may've been taken from ''double your pleasure'' james corrick; it cannot've been before the ace double or after the 1962 next ace books double format mmpb andre-norton.com lists this as cat# D-096, but this is incorrect: the cat# borne is D-96

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