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ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Space Born (1966)	serialised in new worlds #126, 127, 128; 1, 2, 3/1963 as ''dawn's left hand'' by lan wright
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Space Born (1966)	book club edition for sale by mail on subscription to club members only, later possibly an option to members of allied book club members cover (d-j) art (design by john griffiths) cover (d-j) price (possibly none: 6/6d - ?plus postage?, to members) (check) 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between black cloth-covered boards
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Space Born (1964)	herbert jenkins h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition and likely first edition cover (d-j) art by brian lewis (?signed or credited?) cover (d-j) price 12/6 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - A Man Called Destiny (1961)	serialised in new worlds #78, 79, 80; 12/1958, 1/1959, 2/1959; with short profile of the author on the inside cover of #79
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - A Man Called Destiny (1963)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b second printing, with new cat#, new cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - A Man Called Destiny (1961)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by brian lewis (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Stepsons Of Terra (1977)	grosset & dunlap group charter communications ace books imprint mmpb second printing first edition with new introduction by the author cover art by donald i. punchatz (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced in ''don punchatz: a retrospective'' (2019), q.v.) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia, forward (nf) robert silverberg (4/1976) etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Stepsons Of Terra (1979)	thomson books group sphere books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter elson (signed pe in a line-drawn box, uncredited) cover price 90p, 99p eire, 90c malta, $3.25 australia, $2.95 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia, introduction (nf) robert silverberg (4/1976) etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Stepsons Of Terra (1958)	expansion (i don't know by how much) of the ''complete new book'', ''serialized'' in one installment as ''shadow on the stars'' robert silverberg science fiction adventures vol.2 #5, 4/1958, with one b+w illustration by, & prob'ly the cover story for the art also by, ed emshwiller as ed emsh.
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Stepsons Of Terra (1958)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers and contents bound tête-beché to each other cover art by ed emshwiller (signed emsh, uncredited) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising in-between the double's halves doubled with ''a man called destiny'' lan wright (1958), q.v.
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - A Man Called Destiny (1958)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers and contents tête-beché to each other cover art unsigned, uncredited (attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp. including 2 x title p, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with ''stepsons of terra'' robert silverberg (1958), q.v.
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Assignment Luther (1963)	incorporates: fair exchange (short story) new worlds #31, 1/1955, with two b+w illustrations by alan hunter the con game (ss) new worlds #40, 10/1955, with two b+w illustrations by gerard quinn all that glitters (novelette) new worlds #59, 9/1957, with one b+w illustration by eddie jones mate in one (ntte) new worlds #64, 10/1957 leaves two series stories un-up-fixed/uncollected: joker's trick (ntte) new worlds #85, 7/1959; new worlds (merkia) 5/1960 the jarnos affair (ntte) new worlds #93, 4/1960
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Assignment Luther (1963)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b first printing, first edition fix-up or novelisation of two short stories and two novelettes, the first four-published stories in the johnny dawson series cover art by robert a. osborne (signed rao, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 1st Feb 2023		Book Lan Wright - Who Speaks Of Conquest? (1961)	serialised in new worlds #46, 47, 48, 49; 4, 5, 6, 7/1956; each part with three b+w illustrations by gerard quinn ''lan wright'' was the habitual by-line of lionel percy wright, 1923-2010
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun (1979)	new english library p/b second printing, not first nel printing as stated in publishing history° this printing include harry harrison's 1977 introduction cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover - which repeats the front cover art as back-drop to text, price block etc.) (reproduced sans typography in ''the science fiction and fantasy art of tim white'' (uk 1981, 1982, 1992, 2000) cover price 90p, 99p (republic of) ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.85 new zealand ° - states first nel paperback edition september 1979, which is untrue; the first new english library p/b edition was nel four square cat# 1971 (8/1967)
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around The Sun (1977)	new english library h/cvr first printing, first uk h/cvr edition nel sf masters series cover (d-j) art typographical; possibly art on back of d-j (?) (check) cover (d-j) price £5.95 208pp. including titles, indicia, nf forward by harry harrison etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Specimens (1981)	grosset & dunlap group charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by david b. mattingly (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Specimens (1976)	popular library mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (signed faragasso, uncredited) cover price $1.25 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass (''book'') of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed; no priority established nor liable to be, both state popular library edition january, 1976
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Orrie Hitt - Mail Order Sex (1962)	midwood was well known as a sleaze publisher/imprint: the actual sex acts content & detail may be quite low by later standards (if that's quite the just word), but the salaciousness was intended, as it is what these books were bought for. the wikipedia article notes that all of this author's novels published before 1964 are in the public domain; so there'd likely be no need to pay ''collectors' prices'' to sample the quality of the fiction (or possibly the lack thereof) if you look around online.
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book David Derek Stacton - Road Kids (1960)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition aka and originally ''the power gods'' (1958), q.v. cover art by john richards (signed richards, likely uncredited) cover price 2'6
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book David Derek Stacton - The Power Gods (1958)	Review ''nevada's equivalent of our own (by comparison) rather disarmingly decent and dandy-ish teddy-boys are motor-bicycle-borne adolescent hoodlums who, in this book, are led by a tiger of a golden-haired girl into armed robbery and a killing or so. extremely exciting, with something of a documentary quality about its presentation of life in the western-desert jet-set.'' - the spectator 26/12/1958 - this appears to be a crime & violence (with a little bit of sex) ''gangsploitation'' novel 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book David Derek Stacton - The Power Gods (1958)	eyre & spottiswoode h/cvr first printing, believed first edition° (possibly first uk edition) aka ''road kids'' (transworld, uk p/b 1960) cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 12s. 6d. ° - presuming pyramid books mmpb first printing dated january 1959 is the first merkin edition
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Martians, Go Home (1992)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, credited; re-used from astounding vol.liv #1, 9/1954 &c.) cover price (can. $5.99) * u.s. $4.50 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Martians, Go Home (1955)	this appears to be the 12/1955 merkin science fiction book club edition, as it differs in pagination from the first and does not declare ''first edition'' on the indica page.
ppint. 31st Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Martians, Go Home (1955)	e. p. dutton & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition (so stated in indica publishing history) cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited on d-j flap) cover (d-j) price $2.75 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards (there is an oddity reported regarding the actual pagination of the first edition, which apparently includes two more unnumbered title (etc.) pp. in the accounting than are actually present (possibly arising from including the two sides of the front fly endpaper), giving the impression that there are 194pp. - or even 196pp, if the two sides of the rear fly endpaper be included for consistency.)
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - The Lights In The Sky Are Stars (1963)	bantam books mmpb second printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 40¢ 160pp? (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 second printing ... june 1963
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Project Jupiter (1964)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b second printing with new cover art by enrich (enric, heinrich) torres-prat (also used on ''el enigma del planetoide'' f. richard-bessière (ferma, españa 1964), q.v; priority not known to me) cover price 2/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Project Jupiter (1958)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b first uk p/b edition cover art by richard powers (re-used from ''the 27th day'' john mantley (crest mmpb 1958), q.v.) cover price 2'- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - Project Jupiter (1954)	t. v. boardman h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art reportedly by pagram (i didn't spot a signature when i held a copy but d-j was incomplete) cover (d-j) price 9/6 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book David McDaniel - The Arsenal Out Of Time (1967)	liked by then-junior ace books editor terry carr, but disliked by senior editor don wollheim, the ms. was rejected by ace books in 1965. after the major success of his first man from uncle novel, ''the dagger affair'' (ace 1965) and the success of his second such, ''the vampire affair'' (ace 1966), he was invited to re-submit it, and it was published after being shortened by about 2k words: the cut scene, a tuckerisation of one of his friends, appeared in the fanzine, the best of apa-L no. 3 ed. lee gold (1972). david mcdaniel's last, unpublished, man from uncle novel, ''the final affair'' was commisioned to appear as the man from uncle novel #24 (ace mmpb numbering sequence), but wasn't completed until after the merkin t.v. network ended the series, and ace books was no longer interested in it; however, it was widely circulated in handwritten copies within man from uncle fandom, and later made available as a .pdf at http://www.spywise.net/pdf/jan_10/TheFinalAffair.pdf this may still be available via the waybackmachine.

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