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| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 |  | BookJoan Aiken - The Witch Of Clatteringshaws (2005) | the thirteenth and last of her good king james III alternate history novels, #11 in the series (them including a prequel, and an associated, but non-series novel): #1: ''the whispering mountain'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, etc, and links. |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookJoan Aiken - A Creepy Company (1993) | contents: dead man's lane (original to this collection) the end of silence (''a quiver of ghosts'' ed. aidan chambers (1987)) my disability (original to this collection) toomie (original to this collection) the king of nowhere (- ? -; in ''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989)) they have found out (original to this collection) a rhyme for silver (''give yourself a fright'' joan aiken (1989)) little nym (''the walker book of ghost stories'' ed. susan hill (1990)) the traitor (''the virago book of twentieth century ghost stories: volume two'' ed. richard dalby (1991)) die from day to day (original to this collection) fastness of light (original to this collection) |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookJoan Aiken - All And More (1971) | joan aiken's wonderful collections of whimsies: all with b+w illustrations by pat marriott: #1: ''all you've ever wanted'' (1953), q.v. #2: ''more than you bargained for'' (1955), q.v. #3: ''a small pinch of weather'' (1969), q.v. #4: ''a harp of fishbones'' (1972), q.v. #5: ''the faithless lollybird'' (1977), q.v. #A4: 'the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978) - contents differ; see below #6: ''up the chimney down'' (1984), q.v. #A5: ''up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985) - contents differ; see below omnibus of #1 and #2: #O: ''all and more'' (1971), (this book) abridged derivative collection: #Oa: ''all but a few'' (1974), q.v. posthumously-published (re-)collection: #P1: ''the serial garden: the complete armitage family stories'' (2008), q.v. delayed derivative, shuffled and abridged merkin collections with new titles: #A1: ''armitage, armitage, fly away home'' (1968), q.v. ten ''armitage family'' stories taken from: #1, four stories; #2, this merkin collection's title story retitled ''a batch of magic wands''; #3, five stories; #A2: ''smoke from cromwell's time'' (1970), q.v. ~half of #1 (drops ten stories out of nineteen), three from #3, two from #4; #A3: ''not what you expected'' (1974), q.v. most of #2 (drops four stories out of fourteen), three from #3, most of #4 (drops four stories); leaving 14 stories dropped: 6 from #1, 3 dropped from #2; 3 dropped from #3; 2 dropped from #4; shuffled and/or abridged merkin collections sharing uk titles: #A4: ''the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978), q.v. adds two stories from #6 #A5: ''up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985), q.v. drops three stories from #6, the two stories picked up into #A4 and ''a portable elephant'' and a re-shuffled merkin collection: #A6: ''shadows & moonshine'' (2001), q.v. five stories from #1, two from #3, three from #4, and three from #5; all in previous us collections |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookJoan Aiken - The Cuckoo Tree (1973) | alternate history novel set in the reign of good king james III, with dastardly hanoverians plots to be foiled, not least with the help of yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, and the rest of the gentlemen sending messages using twistycorks via the cuckoo tree... |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookJoan Aiken - The Cuckoo Tree (1971) | alternate history novel set in the reign of good king james III, with dastardly hanoverians plots to be foiled, not least with the help of yan, tan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, and the rest of the gentlemen sending messages to one another -using twistycorks - via the cuckoo tree... |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookPeter Frankopan - The Silk Roads (2015) | bloomsbury publishing bloomsbury imprint simultaneous h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with the card-covered yp/b bind-up of the same print-run signatures bearing isbn 978-1-4088-3998-0 dedication: to katarina, flora, francis and luke cover (d-j) art designed by emma ewbank incorporating interior decoration of the dome of mosque at naghsh-e jahan square, isfahan, iran (© shutterstock) cover (d-j) price £35.00 672pp: 656pp. including (i-) xx pages titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, 114 end pp: 95pp. notes section, 3pp. acknowledgements, 16pp. index, plus 2 x 8pp. photographic sections between pp. 220/221 and pp. 396/397, bound with endpapers between covered boards |
| ppint. 30th Apr 2024 | | BookPeter Frankopan - The Silk Roads (2016) | bloomsbury publishing bloomsbury paperbacks bloomsbury imprint b-format p/b first general p/b edition dedication: to katarina, flora, francis and luke cover art designed by emma ewbank incorporating interior decoration of the dome of mosque at naghsh-e jahan square, isfahan, iran (© shutterstock) cover price £16.99 672pp: 656pp. including (i-) xx pages titles, indicia , table-of-contents etc, 114 end pp: 95pp. notes section, 3pp. acknowledgements, 16pp. index, plus 2 x 8pp. photographic sections between pp. 220/221 and pp. 396/397 refer to indicia publishing history to see what number printing is held: given as a single number below the isbn table for the various editions |
| ppint. 27th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised) (1987) | this is the first uk printing of the comprehensively revised, doubled-in-length edition #18a q.v. confusingly, this nowhere upon the front cover mentions that it is this - far larger - revised edition - and it was published bearing the same isbn as the uk p/b of the shorter edition. i doubt richard evans cared... |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 | | BookMarge Piercy - Sleeping With Cats (2002) | judy piatkus (publishers) ltd. h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, possibly simultaneous first edition cover (d-j) art (none: photograph, presumably of the little marge piercy, uncredited) cover (d-j) price £17.99 352pp. including six unnumbered pages titles, indicia, table-of-contents, list of poems etc, perfectbound with endpapers between light brown cloth-covered boards, title, author & piatkus logo on spine in gold |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (1978) | the next arrow books edition of which i am aware is the century hutchinson arrow books (1987) (?legend imprint?) first uk printing of the comprehensively revised, doubled-in-length edition #18a q.v. confusingly, this nowhere upon the front cover mentions that it is the - far larger - revised edition - and it was published bearing the same isbn as the uk p/b of the shorter edition. i doubt richard evans cared... |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised) (1987) | century hutchinson arrow books ltd ?legend (check) imprint p/b first printing and first uk edition of this revised edition novel, second arrow books printing over-all including the far shorter unrevised edition° cover art by peter andrew jones (signed "paj" & dated, but date guillotined off; credited) cover price £3.50 378pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising published bearing the same isbn as the arrow p/b (1978) of the far shorter ©1964 first, unrevised edn. ° - indicia publishing history notes this as "reprinted 1987", which is at least a little misleading; month of publication not given in publishing history; taken from locus |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - Sharra's Exile (1988) | century hutchinson arrow books ltd. legend books first printing, third arrow books printing over-all month of publication not given, taken from locus |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 |  | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - Sharra's Exile (1984) | #22 in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. |
| ppint. 26th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - Sharra's Exile (1984) | near-identical with london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books first printing (1983), but drops the diagonal white flash from across the bottom fly corner of the front cover bearing the puff-line, "first british publication", as well as making the changes above-noted to the back cover. |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 |  | BookBilly Connolly - Tall Tales And Wee Stories (2019) | hachette uk john murray press two roads imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition refer to indicia publishing history to determine which of at least twenty-four near-identical printings is held: as is common, publishers now deem a single unexplained number upon this page suffices to indicate the printing's number cover (d-j) art (b+w photograph of billy connolly by janine grassman, credit on d-j back flap) b+w interior illustrations by billy connolly (credited) cover (d-j) price (clipped from my copy) 336pp. including six unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, perfectbound with light blue endpapers between grey cloth-covered boards, title, author & imprint printed in black on spine |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookThomas Moule - The County Maps Of Old England (1990) | studio editions reprinted this edition at least half a dozen times in its first two years. refer to indicia publishing history to determine which near-identical printing is held. |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookThomas Moule - The County Maps Of Old England (1990) | studio editions very large format h/cvr first printing, probably first thus introduction by roderick barron (copyright by him, presumably new-written for 1990) cover (d-j) art: oxfordshire by thomas moule, coloured; d-j design by ivor claydon cover(d-j) price (d-j of reference copy held in price-clipped) 128pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, 5pp. introduction, etc, bound with dark blue endpapers between dark blue cloth-covered boards |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookTerry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic (1992) | merkin penguin group roc imprint mmpb undated° second printing, seventh nal/signet/roc mmpb printing over-all cover art by josh kirby (signed, retained from all but earliest previous mmpb printings) cover price (canada $5.99) • u.s. $4.99 (reportedly also £4.99 "export only" (check this!†) 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - date obtained by interpolation into (canadian & merkin) cover prices for roc imprint mmpbs of this extent: 1-4/1992 would've been (canada $5.50) • u.s. $4.50; 5/1992 is the earliest that 256pp. roc mmpbs were priced ($5.99) • $4.99; and to tie in to known date of publication of roc mmpb of "reaper man", the only terry pratchett roc mmpb published in 1992 after "moving pictures" (1/1992). † - it seems a little unlikely, to put it mildly - but isn't impossible: it could've been a mistake made by the merkin penguin group - a number of rpg & war game spin-off roc mmpbs published by arrangement with fasa inc. were legitimately exported to the uk, bearing £ uk prices - and copies might even have been legitimately distributed in some other countries in the commonwealth still using £uk, by arrangement with transworld publishers ltd. |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookTerry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic (1990) | dutton penguin new american library (signet/) roc imprint mmpb undated° first printing, sixth nal/signet mmpb printing over-all cover art by josh kirby signed, retained from previous two signet mmpb printings cover price (canada $4.95 (check)) • u.s. $3.95 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - month & year date from locus |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur (1987) | daw books undated° mmpb thirteenth printing by indicia printing number line front cover redesigned with framing art by richard hescox (unsigned, credited) cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, reatly shrunk to fit frame art) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughhttps://www.45worlds.com/assets/img/pixel.gifan (signed with his digraph) b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising ° - ? month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus |
| ppint. 25th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur (1985) | daw books undated° mmpb twelfth printing by indicia printing number line cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, new superimposed DAW logo) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map etc, end pp. advertising ° - ? month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus |
| ppint. 24th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur (1984) | daw books undated° simultaneous near-identical mmpb tenth and eleventh printings sharing cover art by george barr (signed, credited, retained from 6/7th printings, new superimposed DAW logo) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) b+w map "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is the fictional darkovan cartographer cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $3.50 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, frontispiece, map 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 printing, august 1975 followed by solidus and printing number line: /10 11 12 13 14 for the merkin-carcassed copies and /11 12 13 14 for the canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying the latter as the eleventh printing ° - month and year of publication of not given in their indicia: taken from locus |
| ppint. 24th Apr 2024 | | BookTerry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic (1988) | dutton penguin new american library signet imprint mmpb undated° fourth printing cover art by josh kirby (signed, credited; reused from corgi uk p/b (1985), q.v.) cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - publication month & year date taken from locus refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from: near-identical undated signet mmpb fifth printing, which retains cat#, isbn, cover art by josh kirby cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 the next new american library signet books mmpb bears the then new roc imprint, together with new cat#, and new isbn, but is nevertheless accounted its sixth mmpb printing |
| ppint. 24th Apr 2024 | | BookTerry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic (1985) | new american library signet imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first merkin p/b edition cover art by vicente segrelles (unsigned, uncredited; collected in "la fantasia de segrelles" (1986), q.v.) cover price (canada $3.50) • u.s. $2.95 256pp. (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 signet printing, may, 1985 check publishing history also for indicium of signet mmpb third printing, not yet seen recorded nor seen by myself, which may be near-identical. (the fourth signet mmpb printing definitely bears josh kirby's cover art, new cat# and a new isbn) |
| ppint. 24th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The Keeper's Price (1993) | #a in the friends of darkover original anthology series, stories edited by, and including stories by marion zimmer bradley set in the world of the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listings, and links. |
| ppint. 24th Apr 2024 | | BookEdith Pargeter - The Heaven Tree (1970) | the heaven tree trilogy #1: #1: "the heaven tree" (1960) (this novel) #2: "the green branch" (1962), q.v. #3: "the scarlet seed" (1963), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #O: " the heaven tree trilogy" (c. 1980 - check), q.v. |
| ppint. 23rd Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - Hastur Lord (2010) | #24 in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. |
| ppint. 23rd Apr 2024 |  | BookEdward S. Aarons - Assignment (1960) | title is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to ''assignment - madelaine'' with a space before and after the dash - as per the other editions and the other titles in this series bookcat will then automagically sort this edition together with the other editions correctly |
| ppint. 22nd Apr 2024 | | BookEdward S. Aarons - Assignment (1965) | title is^W was still wrong and should^W has now been corrected to ''assignment - karachi'' see cover of this printing on goodreads.com |
| ppint. 22nd Apr 2024 | | BookEdward S. Aarons - Assignment (1962) | title is^W was slightly wrong and should^W has been corrected to "assignment - madelaine" (with a space after the dash as well as before it) bookcat wll then automagically sort this edition together with the other editions correctly |
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