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ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Book Ramsey Campbell - The Influence (1993)	the sheridan book company first printing, not first uk p/b edition logo just above the base of the spine is a black, seriffed s above a black squiggle, in a white rectangle: this is repeated nowhere else on or in this edition. title page bears "the sheridan book company" above a horizontally stretched iteration of the like squiggle dedication: for catherine and j. k. potter who lit up more of the dark for me "the last dream tells the truth. . ." guilda kent cover art unsigned, uncredited from merged photographs split vertically of woman's face & head, skull cover price £4.99, $10.95 aus(tralia) 304pp. including six unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, 2 blank end pp.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Book J. K. Rowling - Career Of Evil (2016)	cormoran strike #3: private eye crime and detection mysteries series #1: "the cuckoo's calling" (2013), q.v. (eventually for series listing, and links).
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Book J. K. Rowling - Career Of Evil (2016)	sphere (not "sphere books") is stated to be: an imprint of little brown books group, carmelite house, 50 victoria embankment, london ec4y 0dz an hachette uk company.
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Book J. K. Rowling - Career Of Evil (2016)	hachette uk little brown books group sphere imprint b-format p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition preceded by the sphere imprint h/cvr first printing (2015) dedication: to séan and matthew harris, do whatever you like with this dedication, but don't --- don't --- use it on your eyebrows cover art from photograph by nico taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover but © is by the publisher) cover price £7.99 592pp. including 8 unpaginated pages titles, indicia etc, 12 end pp: 7pp. acknowledgements including 2pp. introduction to these, 1 blank p, 1p. about the - fictional - author, 3pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Aug 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Jewel In The Skull (1973)	Review - well, what else could one do with dorian hawkmoon's brain ?° ° - see back cover blurb... gloom, doom and the depths of despondency doing duty providing a typically moorcockian dark flavour to this stage in the central character's career towards his eventual but certain early death - or worse(!) - michael moorcock pretty much defined this style or school of sword'n'sorcery, not as a tame copy of robert e. howard's simple strongarm swordsman, but one ever at risk of being cheated or downright double-crossed by his temporary employers, even - perhaps especially (?) - if they gain very nearly all they hire his swords to win. moorcock also introduced the idea of a constant struggle between opposing forces aimed at or personifying the dedication to the imposition of unalterable law, implacable and cruel in the name of justice - and the drive towards the ultimate chaos of purest entropy, equally unlovable and unlivable-with by humanity, a discord driving events as powerful as - or totally replacing - the hitherto traditional fantasy dichotomy of good and evil. - and he **loathed & hated tolkien's "the lord of the rings**" - ignore the idiotic lancer books cover blurb. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Book Frank Herbert - The Dragon In The Sea (1956)	distinguish between this true first edition and the near-identical doubleday science fiction book club h/cvr (6/1956) first (and any subsequent) printing by their lack of the indicia statement "first edition".
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Book Frank Herbert - The Dragon In The Sea (1956)	doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition, so stated in the indicia cover (d-j) art by mel hunter (signed, should be credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price $2.95 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards cover d-j price in canada $3.50 but i do not know if this was a separately-printed d-j or no.
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Book Frank Herbert - The Dragon In The Sea (1961)	the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale only to members of the science fiction book club by post, on a near inertia sales subscription basis (or from time-to-time as a cheap/free book (pay only for p+p) in inducement to join the book club) cover (d-j) price 5/6 (including postage & packing iirc) cover (d-j) art design by c. w. bacon 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 6th Aug 2024		Book Frank Herbert - The Dragon In The Sea (1960)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black and magenta on "gollancz yellow" field with two narrow bands of decoration composed of printers' wibbles between narrow horizontal lines all in black cover (d-j) price 13/6 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Book Fredric Brown - Angels And Spaceships (1962)	contents: © date of 1954 = original publication in this collection sfaik introduction (nf) fredric brown 1954 pattern (short story) 1954 placet is a crazy place (ss) asf vol. xxxvii #3, 5/1946, two b+w illustrations by swenson; asf atlas bre vol. v #6, 9/1946 answer (ss) 1954 etaoin shrdlu (ss) unknown vol. v #5, 2/1942, with two b+w illustrations by paul orban preposterous (ss) 1954 armageddon (ss) unknown vol. v #2, 8/1941, one b+w illustration by ed cartier; argosy uk 5/1956 politeness (ss) 1954, reprinted in playboy 3/1957 the waveries (ss) asf vol. xxxiv #5, 1/1945, two b+w illustrations by paul orban; argosy uk 4/1954 reconciliation (ss) 1954 the hat trick (ss) as by "felix graham" unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, two b+w illustrations by ed cartier search (ss) 1954 letter to a phoenix (ss) asf vol. xxxxiii #6, 8/1949, one b+w illustration by paul orban daisies (ss) 1954 the angelic angleworm (novelette) unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, four b+w illustrations by m. isip sentence (ss) 1954 the yehudi principle (ss) asf vol.33 #3, 5/1944, two b+w illustrations by newton h. alfred solipsist (ss) 1954
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Book Fredric Brown - Angels And Spaceships (1955)	victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first uk edition collection of sixteen short stories (seven reprints) and a novelette, nf introduction by the author cover (d-j) art none, typographical with some limited horizontal separators from compositors' type cover (d-j) price 10/6 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Book James H. Schmitz - The Witches Of Karres (1988)	cover art collected in "in the garden of unearthly delights" josh kirby (1991 & ff.), q.v.
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Book James Blish - They Shall Have Stars (1956)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one, geoffrey faber) first printing, first edition cover d-j art by peter curl (signed curl) (of the bridge of the first part, in black with spot yellow & red) cover d-j price 12/6 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards distinguish from 1965 second printing by reference to the indicia publishing history which adds "second impression mcmlxv" cover (d-j) price 18/-
ppint. 5th Aug 2024		Book Leo P. Kelley - Mindmix (1974)	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk or first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price c. £1.80 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Runestaff (1974)	the (history of the) runestaff tetralogy #4: #1: ''the jewel in the skull'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Lin Carter - The Man Who Loved Mars (1973)	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by paul lehr (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from fawcett gold medal mmpb first edition) cover (d-j) price £1.60 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Mutiny In Space (1973)	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price £1.60 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Or All The Seas With Oysters (1976)	printed & made for white lion publishers by hendington ltd., deadbrook lane, aldershot hants. (posted because i don't recall this printer's name from the seventies - or any other time; and because it's possible they may've been more closely connected with the publisher aside of simply having printed & bound (? some of?) the books they published. tbi.)
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Or All The Seas With Oysters (1976)	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition reprint collection of seventeen short stories and a novelette° cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited (looks like the work of mal dean to me, but this is not an attribution) cover (d-j) price £2.95 176pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents° etc, bound with endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards ° - table-of-contents omits the titles of two short stories, following that of the berkley medallion mmpb first edition
ppint. 4th Aug 2024		Book Frank Herbert - Dune (2007)	random house group uk (or random penguin by now?) hachette group orion books gollancz imprint h/cvr first printing of this edition, but not first uk h/cvr nor first victor gollancz h/cvr edition cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, re-used from "the prophet of dune" part 3 (of 5) asf vol. lxxv #1, 3/1965, where it is credited) cover price £7.99 616pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possible end p.; perfectbound (iirc) onto flexible backing strip with endpapers between laminated boards, no dust-jacket
ppint. 3rd Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Or All The Seas With Oysters (1976)	contents: or all the sea with oysters (short story) galaxy vol.15 #1, 5/1958; a b+w illustration by friedman up the close and doun the stairs (novelette) f&sf vol.14 #5, 5/1958; venture bre #25, 9/1965° now let us sleep (ss) venture vol.1 #5, 9/1957; venture bre #19, 3/1965 the grantha sighting (ss) f&sf vol.14 #4, 4/1958; venture bre #22, 6/1965 help! i am dr. morris goldpepper (ss) galaxy vol.14 #3, 7/1057; galaxy bre #4 (9/1957); both: 3 b+w illustrations by d. (don) martin the sixth season (ss) f&sf vol.18 #6, 6/60; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #10, 9/1960 negra sum (ss) f&sf vol.13 #5, 11/1957 or the grasses grow (ss) f&sf vol.15 #5, 11/1958 my boyfriend's name is jello (ss) f&sf vol.7 #1, 7/1954 the golem (ss) f&sf vol.8 #5, 3/1955 summerland (ss) f&sf vol.13 #1, 7/1957 king's evil (ss) f&sf vol.11 #4, 10/1956 great is diana (ss) f&sf vol.15 #2, 8/1958; venture bre #4, 12/1963 i do not hear you, sir (ss) f&sf vol.14 #2, 2/1958; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #3, 2/1960 author, author (ss) f&sf vol.17 #1, 7/1959; venture bre #14, 10/1964 dagon (ss) f&sf vol.17 #4, 10/1959; venture bre #1, 9/1963 the montavarde camera (ss) f&sf vol.16 #5, 5/1959; venture bre #18, 2/1965 the woman who thought she could read (ss) f&sf vol.16 #1, 1/1959; venture bre #11, 7/1974 ° - check the "doun" spelling in the mmpbs' table-of-contents: this is the spelling in both magazines
ppint. 3rd Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Ursus Of Ultima Thule (1973)	serialised as "the forges of nairnland are cold" in fantastic vol.21 #6, vol.22 #1; 8/1972, 10/1972 each episode with one b+w illustration by mike (michael) kaluta
ppint. 3rd Aug 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Ursus Of Ultima Thule (1973)	hearst corporation avon books mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by enric/enrich torres-prat (unsigned, uncredited; attributed to enric on comicartfans.com website cover price 95¢ 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed; no priority established nor liable to be, both state first avon printing, december, 1973
ppint. 2nd Aug 2024		Book Emil Petaja - The Stolen Sun (Including Tramontane) (1979)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, omnibus edition, first thus cover art by vicente segrelles (unsigned, credited as segrelles) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed, uncredited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.356 cover price $2.25 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel) cover price $1.95 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution) 224pp. (check) including eight unnumbered pp. "the kalevala fantasies" (nf) emil petaja (1967), b+w frontispiece, titles, indicia etc, "introduction "tramontane " (nf) emil petaja (1967), second titles pp, etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first daw printing, september 1979/123456789
ppint. 2nd Aug 2024		Book Raymond F. Jones - Renaissance (1991)	stated to be a grafton uk paperback original - which is at least a debatable claim. . .
ppint. 1st Aug 2024		Book Emil Petaja - The Stolen Sun (1967)	kalevala recast #3: #1: "saga of lost earths" (1966), q.v. for series listing and links
ppint. 1st Aug 2024		Book Emil Petaja - The Star Mill (1966)	the kalevala recast #2: #1: "saga of lost earths" (1966), q.v. for series listing and links
ppint. 1st Aug 2024		Book Emil Petaja - Saga Of Lost Earths (1966)	emil petaja's recasting of the kalevala epic series #1: #1: "saga of lost earths" (1966) (this novel) #2: "the star mill" (1966), q.v. #3: "the stolen sun" (1967), q.v. #4: "tramontane" (1967), q.v. later collected in two omnibi°: #a: "saga of lost earths and the star mill" (1979), q.v. #b: "the stolen sun and tramontane" (1979), q.v. ° - yes, i know...
ppint. 1st Aug 2024		Book Terry Pratchett - Thief Of Time (2002)	harpercollinspublishers harpertorch mmpb first printing, first merkin p/b edition cover art by chip kidd (? check: it differs from that on the 5/2001 harpercollins h/cvr which is credited to him as designer); it's a silhouette of a black cloaked, hooded, gloved figure on a black horse riding over yellow roman numerals, on a slightly greyish turquoisey-blue background, with a.black vertical band down the spine edge bearing three small boxed carriage clocks; title and author in orange, in mostly lower case (title somewhat randomly) across whole of width of front cover; a yellow disc with pinked edge overlaps the black band onto the background above the horse's tail bearing "celebrating 25 extraordinary years of discworld" in five lines of black type cover price $6.99 382pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. include excerpt from "night watch" (2002), q.v. refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to determine which printing is held: the lowest number remaining gives this, as a digit is dropped progressively with each further printing; at least six printings known, the sixth being published in 5/2004; pinked-edge yellow disc omitted from cover of at least one of these later printings
ppint. 30th Jul 2024		Book Mercedes Lackey - Born To Run (1992)	elves in l.a./elven steeds/... series #1: closely connected with the bedlam's bard series, q.v. ° - front covers bear the serrated edge-logoed series: † - front covers not bearing the serrated edge logo #1: ''born to run''° (1992), (this novel) #2: ''wheels of fire''° mercedes lackey, mark shepherd (1992), q.v. #3: ''when the bough breaks''° mercedes lackey, holly lisle (1993), q.v. #4: ''chrome circle''° mercedes lackey, larry dixon (1994), q.v. #5: ''elvendude''† mark shepherd (1994), q.v. #6: ''spiritride''† mark shepherd (2007), q.v. #7: ''lazerwarz''† mark shepherd (2009), q.v. #8: ''silence''° mercedes lackey, cody martin (2016), q.v. #9: ''the waters and the wild''† mercedes lackey, rosemary edghill (2019), q. v. #10: ''breaking silence''° mercedes lackey, cody martin (2020), q.v. assorted omnibi: O#1&4: ''the chrome borne'' (1999), q.v. O#2&3: ''the other world'' mercedes lackey, mark shepherd, holly lisle (2000), q.v. the diana tregarde occult psychic investigator trilogy is loosely connected: dt#1: ''children of the night'' (1990), q.v. dt#2: ''burning water'' (1989), q.v. dt#3: ''jinx high'' (1991), q.v. dt#c: ''magic 101'' (reprint collection of a novella and a short story, 2014 ebook only, so far) merkin sf book club omnibus edition of dt #1, #2 & #3: dt#o: ''diana tregarde investigates'' (2006), q.v. elizabethan historical fantasy series by mercedes lackey and roberta gellis is advertised as the prequel series to the serrated edge series: but, featuring both oberon and titania as powerful - if only occasional - on-stage characters with major effects upon the over-all shape of events, does not strike yr hmbl srppnt. as directly connected with any of the above: #01: ''this scepter'd isle'' (2004), q.v. #02: ''ill met by moonlight'' (2005), q.v. #03: ''by sland'rous tongues'' (2007), q.v. #04: ''and less than kind'' (2008), q.v.

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