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ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book Mercedes Lackey - Bedlam's Edge (2007)	bedlam's bard & elves in la series setting #OA (original anthology): #1: ''knight of ghosts and shadows'' mercedes lackey, ellen guon (1990), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book Mercedes Lackey - Bedlam's Edge (2007)	contents: tom o'bedlam's song (poem) anonymous (sir giles earle, his book c.1615 british museum° - ppint.) devil went down to georgia (short story) mercedes lackey unleaving (novelette) india edghill old order (ntte) michael longcor well met by moonlight (ss) diana l. paxson the world's more full of weeping (ss) rosemary edghill the waters and the wild (ss) mercedes lackey the remover of difficulties (ntte) ashley mcconnell bright as diamonds (ntte) barb caffrey, michael b. caffrey bottle of djinn (ntte) roberta gellis red fiddler (ntte) dave freer, eric flint unnatural history (ss) sarah a. hoyt all that jazz (ntte) jenn saint-john six-shooter (ss) ellen guon mall elves and how they grew (essay) (nf) mercedes lackey ° - up to nine of the twenty-five verses quoted may be much later composition by one or more further hands, as may the first chorus quoted: no source(s) at all are given - ppint.
ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book Mercedes Lackey - Bedlam's Edge (2007)	baen publishing enterprises baen books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition original anthology of seven novelettes and six short stories in mercedes lackey's bedlam's bard/elves in la universe cover art by bob eggleton (unsigned, credited, shared from baen books first edition h/cvr (2005)) cover price $7.99 (can(ada) $9.99) 384pp. including (i-) x pages titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, tom o'bedlam's song (poem), 36 end pp: 10pp. "mall elves and how they grew" (nf) mercedes lackey (2005), 19pp. excerpt from "hell hath no fury" david weber, linda evans (then forthcoming baen books h/cvr scheduled 3/2007), 7pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book L. Ron Hubbard - Fear (1957)	galaxy publications galaxy science fiction novel digest format p/b first printing, first stand-alone edition first book publication in double with typewriter in the sky'' l. ron hubbard (gnome press 1951) cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, attribution presumédly taken from tuck) cover price 35¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book L. Ron Hubbard - Slaves Of Sleep (1967)	"serialized" in unknown vol.1 #5, 7/1939, with nine b+w illustrations by ed cartier: these are reprinted in the dell mmpb 6/1979 edition, q.v.
ppint. 29th Jul 2024		Book L. Ron Hubbard - Fear (1977)	'serialized'' in unknown vol. iii #5, 7/1940 with five b+w illustrations by ed cartier
ppint. 28th Jul 2024		Book Murray Leinster - The Last Space Ship (1952)	fix-up of the three kim rendell novelettes from thrilling wonder stories: the disciplinary circuit (vol. xxviii #1, winter/1946), q.v., with three uncredited b+w illustrations the manless world (vol. xxix #3, 2/1947), q.v., with three b+w illustrations by virgil finlay the boomerang circuit (vol. xxx #2, 6/1947), q.v., with cover art by earle bergey, and three uncredited b+w illustrations
ppint. 28th Jul 2024		Book Eric Frank Russell - Sinister Barrier (1966)	paperback library mmpb simultaneous near-identical second printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia to see if carcass ("body text") of copy held was canadian-or merkin-printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state second printing: december, 1966
ppint. 28th Jul 2024		Book Stanton A. Coblentz - The Sunken World (1951)	"serialized'' in amazing stories quarterly summer 1928 with a b+w illustration by frank r. paul and again in amazing stories quarterly vol.7 #2, fall 1934 with six b+w illustrations by frank r. paul
ppint. 28th Jul 2024		Book Oscar J. Friend - The Kid From Mars (1951)	''serialized'' in startling stories vol.4 #2, 9/1940 cover art by e. k. (earle) bergey (credited) b+w art by alex schomburg (some signed)
ppint. 28th Jul 2024		Book Donald A. Wollheim - Flight Into Space (1951)	contents: parasite planet (novelette) stanley g. weinbaum (astounding vol.14 #6, 2/1935) red storm on jupiter (short story) frank belknap long (astounding vol.17 #3, 5/1936) a baby on neptune (ntte) claire winger harris, miles j. breuer, m.d. (amazing vol.4 #9, 2/1929) the rape of the solar system (ntte) leslie f. stone (amazing vol.9 #8, 12/1934) planet passage (ss) martin pearson (pseudonym of donald a. wollheim) (future fantasy and science fiction vol.3 #1, 10/1942) hermit of saturn's rings (ss) neil r. james (planet stories vol.4 #1, fall/1940) the seekers (ss) robert moore williams (startling vol.17 #2, 5/1948) peril of the blue world (ss) robert abernathy (planet stories vol.II #1, winter/1942) the mercurian (ss) frank belknap long (vol.I #9, winter/1941) sunward (ss) stanton a. coblentz (thrilling wonder vol. xvi #1, 4/1940) the death of the moon (ss) alexander phillips (aka a. m. phillips) (amazing vol.3 #11, 2/1929) ajax of ajax (ss) martin pearson (pseudonym of donald a. wollheim) (future combined with science fiction vol.2 #6, 8/1942)
ppint. 27th Jul 2024		Book Charlie English - The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu (2017)	harpercollinspublishers william collins imprint first printing, first uk or simultaneous first edition simultaneous with william collins imprint yp/b first printing from signatures of the same print run dedication: for lucy cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price £20 416pp. including fourteen unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, b+w frontispiece, maps, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 56 end pp: 26pp notes, 11pp. selected bibliography, 3pp. acknowledgements, 15pp. index, 1p photo credits, 1 blank p, plus two 8pp. sections of photograph plates= 443pp. over-all; perfectbound onto a flexible strip and bound with orange endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, with title, author, imprint & decorative design on spine in copper elsewise unexplained printing number "1" above copyright notice date on indicia page
ppint. 22nd Jul 2024		Book James White - The Secret Visitors (1967)	this would appear to be the same printing as that bookcat item contributed by davie gordon; i do not know of a near-identical (to the second) third ace books mmpb printing, nor indeed of any further ace books printing/edition.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Invaders From The Infinite (1966)	arcot, morey and wade series #3: #1: "the black star passes" (1953), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Islands Of Space (1966)	arcot, morey and wade series #2: #1: "the black star passes" (1953), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Islands Of Space (1966)	"serialized" in amazing stories quarterly spring 1931 as by john w. campbell jr.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - The Black Star Passes (1965)	arcot, morey and wade series #1: #1: "the black star passes" (1953), (this collection) #2: "islands of space" (1956), q.v. #3: "invaders from the infinite" (1961), q.v.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - The Black Star Passes (1965)	contents: piracy preferred (novella) amazing vol.5 #3, 6/1930 solarite (novelette) amazing vol.5 #8, 11/1930 the black star passes (novella) amazing stories quarterly vol.3 #4, 10/1930
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Islands Of Space (1966)	ace books small format mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition cover art by mckeon (unsigned, credited; not sfaik further identified as-yet) interior b+w illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph, uncredited) cover price 45¢ 192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia gives only the 1956 copyright date of the gnome press first edition 1966 date presumably taken from donald tuck
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - The Black Star Passes (1965)	ace books small format mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition reprint collection of two novellas and a novelette cover art by jerome podwil (signed, credited) cover price 40¢ 224pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia gives only the 1953 copyright date of the gnome press first edition 1966 date presumably taken from donald tuck
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Invaders From The Infinite (1966)	"serialized" in amazing stories quarterly spring-summer 1932 as by john w. campbell jr.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Invaders From The Infinite (1966)	ace books small format mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition cover art by gray morrow (signed, credited) cover price 45¢ 192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia gives only the 1961 copyright date of the gnome press first edition 1966 date presumably taken from donald tuck
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book Marc Morris - A Great And Terrible King (2024)	the first edition was the hutchinson imprint h/cvr first printing (2008) the first p/b edition was the random house group century, century hutchinson or arrow books group windmill press imprint first printing (2009)
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book Marc Morris - A Great And Terrible King (2024)	random penguin group penguin imprint (though hutchinson group/arrow books group isbn) first printing accounted twenty-sixth printing by printing number° as accounting appears to include the arrow books group p/b edition printings cover art unsigned, not obviously credited cover price £14.99 \| can(ada) $31.99 480pp. (i-)xiii pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), index of illustrations etc, end pp. index, plus two unnumbered eight page colour plates sections= 496pp. over-all ° - indicia page notes the elsewise unexplained printing number 026
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book S. M. Stirling - Snowbrother (Revised) (1992)	barcode number truncated by too-small field: 076714 00499 3 72119 n. b. only the last element uniquely identifies the book, being the publisher's cat#
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book S. M. Stirling - Snowbrother (Revised) (1992)	revised and enlarged edition of the first novel in the fifth millennium setting or (loose?) series by various authors and collaborations: #1: "snowbrother" s. m. stirling (1985), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 19th Jul 2024		Book S. M. Stirling - Snowbrother (Revised) (1992)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first revised, enlarged edition dedication: to jan cover art by larry elmore (signed, credited) b+w map by eleanor kostyk (unsigned, credited) cover price (canada $6.99) u.s. $4.99 304pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, map etc, 8 end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Jul 2024		Book Larry Niven - The Ringworld Throne (1997)	little, brown group (warner books uk) orbit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, re-used from del rey merkin h/cvr & p/b editions) cover price £5.99, $14.95 australia 384pp. (check) titles, indicia etc, 6 end pp: 2pp. glossary, 1p. ringworld parameters, 3pp. cast of characters month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; taken from locus
ppint. 15th Jul 2024		Book Jack Vance - City Of The Chasch (1975)	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition (preceded by mayflower p/b edition) cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £2.75 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 15th Jul 2024		Book Jack Vance - Servants Of The Wankh (1975)	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, may have been preceded by the mayflower uk p/b edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £2.75 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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