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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Bob Shaw - The Peace Machine (1987)	collins group grafton books, panther / grafton books imprint p/b first printing, first revised edition p/b edition cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.50, $8.95 australia, $11.95 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the indicia, taken from locus
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Bob Shaw - The Peace Machine (1985)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition, revised edition first thus cover (d-j) art (none, typographical cover in black and magenta on ''gollancz yellow'' field, plus a large narrow black line-drawn quadrilateral not framing anything) cover (d-j) price £7.95 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given in the indicia, taken from locus
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Bob Shaw - Ground Zero Man (1976)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 60p, $1.75 australia, $1.95 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Roy Lewis - The Evolution Man (1989)	aka and originally ''what we did to father'' (1960) q.v., ''decorated by/with embellishments by hewison''. aka ''once upon an ice age'' (merkin (berkley medallion?) mmpb c.1968), q.v.
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Witches Of Karres (1988)	victor gollancz ltd. vgsf imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by josh kirby (unsigned, though full painting surely must be, credited on back cover) cover price £3.50 352pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in indicia, taken from locus
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book James H. Schmitz - The Witches Of Karres (1968)	ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited to the dillons on the back cover) cover price 75¢ cat# A-13 cat# 01013 out-of-(possibly then not-yet-created?)-five-digit cat# system in number-string 020-01013-075 on spine, where 020- may be the abn publisher code for ace books, -075 is the cover price in cents 288pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp. advertising
ppint. 30th Jan 2023		Book Katharine Tozer - Mumfie's Magic Box (1938)	john murray, albemarle street, london w. h/cvr first printing, first edition dedication: for margaret / not of course forgetting / piglet cover (d-j) art by katharine tozer (unsigned, implicitly credited but may've been assembled in editorial) interior full-page restricted palette and many b+w illustrations, some full-page (also by katharine tozer unsigned, credited) 196pp. including 4 unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, 8 unpaginated restricted palette colour illustrations on four double-sided leaves, sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards, title, author, publisher on spine, decoration on front cloth is reproduction of katharine tozer's art
ppint. 29th Jan 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Threshold (1986)	wm collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, second printing including the granada publishing granada / panther books first uk p/b cover art by richard clifton-dey (unsigned, credited on back cover, retained from granada panther edition) cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $8.95 new zealand 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Jan 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Threshold (1982)	granada publishing ltd. transitional granada / panther imprint° p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by richard clifton-dey (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $4.95 new zealand 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - in places variously a panther book and granada; just granada; and granada publishing
ppint. 29th Jan 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Threshold (1980)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by alan cracknell (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £5.50 186pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - Supernatural Stories (1963)	magazine supernatural stories #71, monthly at this point in its life, as declared on the front cover.
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Corpus Earthling	priory books imprint undated uk p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition almost certainly illegal unauthorised edition, attributed by les flood to ''the nefarious peter haddock'' cover art unsigned, uncredited (poorly-printed, it may well also have been pirated) cover price 25p, 75c south africa, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.00 canada, $1.25 usa 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. i know of no reason to believe this edition was ever distributed to the book trade in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni at (a discount off) the printed uk cover price, nor as a new book via the book trade in any of the other countries in whose currencies it is further priced: i've heard nor seen any report of this, and know it as a new book only from the remainder books dump cages in branches of f. w. woolworth's, where it was typically price-gun label marked at e.g. 7½p, and suspect it was produced as an instant remainder, being printed in israel at a time at least some isrealli printers would accept rights-breaking jobs.
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Corpus Earthling (1963)	brown, watson ltd., transitional digit to brown, watson imprint p/b, first printing, first uk edition digit on front cover, brown, watson on title page cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Louis Charbonneau - Corpus Earthling (1960)	zenith books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 35¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 2 (1974)	berkley publishing group putnam imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition original anthology of seven novelettes and a short story, nf introduction by the editor for contents see the star books uk p/b bookcat entry cover (d-j) art by vincent difate (signed, credited to vincent di fate on d-j rear flap) cover (d-j) price $6.95 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given on the indicia page, taken from the 7408 code on d-j front flap
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 3 (1975)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition original anthology of six novelettes and two short stories, nf introduction by the editor for contents see the star books uk p/b edition bookcat entry cover art by vincent difate (unsigned, uncredited; shared from putnam imprint h/cvr first edition d-j) cover price 95¢ 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 3 (1974)	berkley publishing group putnam imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition original anthology of six novelettes and two short stories, nf introduction by the editor for contents see the star books uk p/b edition bookcat entry cover art by vincent difate (unsigned i think, credited on d-j rear flap) cover price $5.95 188pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards publication month not given on indica page, taken from 7412 code on d-j front flap sbn on indica page is incorrect, refers to a totally different putnam group book sbn below price on d-j front flap is correct, and given in isbn10 field above
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 1 (1975)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition original anthology of six novelettes and two short stories for contents see the star books uk p/b bookcat entry cover art by vincent difate (signed, shared from the putnam h/cvr first edition wherever it's also credited) cover price 95¢ 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 1 (1974)	g. p. putnam's sons / putnam or berkley publishing group putnam imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition original anthology of six novelettes and two short stories, with nf introduction by the editor for contents see the star books uk p/b bookcat entry cover (d-j) art by vincent difate (signed, credited on d-j rear flap) cover (d-j) price $5.95 252pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 4 (1975)	berkley publishing group putnam berkley imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition original anthology of five novelettes and three short stories for contents see star uk p/b edition bookcat entry cover (d-j) art by vincent difate (unsigned, credited on d-j rear flap) cover (d-j) price $6.95 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given: taken from date code 7508 on d-j front flap
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Roger Elwood - Continuum 2 (1975)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition original anthology of seven novelettes and a short story, with introduction by the editor for contents see the star uk p/b bookcat entry cover art by vincent difate (signed, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. splash line on front cover still claims ''first time in paperback!'' distinguish from undated near-identical second mmpb c. 6/1976° printing which differs: cat# Z3127 cover price $1.25 ° obtained by interpolation of berkley medallion cat#s, and consistent with their rising mmpb cover prices for books of this extent
ppint. 28th Jan 2023		Book Vardis Fisher - Pemmican (1958)	a historical novel of the hudson's bay company.
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book David McDaniel - The Arsenal Out Of Time (1967)	there should also be two b+w illustrations by jack gaughan, one at least signed with his jg digraph; t'other likely more of a decoration.
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - What Mad Universe? (1987)	wm. collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited (& awful - not surprising no-one's confessed to having perpetrated this) cover price £2.95, $8.95 australia (recommended), $12.95 new zealand rrp inc. gst 240pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising claimed to be a grafton uk original, which is just as much rubbish as is the cover - if not more!
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - What Mad Universe (1954)	t.v. boardman p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by edward pagram (my attribution: cover is signed ''pagram'' and matches edward pagram's signature on attributed paintings sold by auction houses) cover price 2/- 192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - What Mad Universe (1951)	t. v. (thomas volney) boardman h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by denis mcloughlin (signed d. mcloughlin, i don't know if credited on d-j) cover (d-j) price 8/6 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - What Mad Universe (1950)	bantam books mmpb first printing 10/1950, first p/b edition 11/1950 cover art by herman e. bischoff (signed bischoff, uncredited) cover price (unpriced: in this era, all mmpbs were 25¢ unless elsewise stated) 200pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Fredric Brown - What Mad Universe (1949)	e. p. dutton & co. h/cvr first printing 9/1949, first edition; refer to indicia to distinguish from: near-identical second printing also 9/1949 (i.e. before publication date) cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited restricted palette (black, blue on white paper) cover (d-j) price $2.50 256pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Strangers In The Universe (1963)	publisher should^W still^W has at last been corrected to berkley medallion as per cover image
ppint. 27th Jan 2023		Book Cliff Lawton - A Book Of Weird Tales (1960)	author field should be varied to editor edit 28/2/2023: and has now been.

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