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ppint. 17th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Name Of A Shadow (1980)	the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.25 288pp. (check) including unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - A Dead God Dancing (1979)	the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.25 288pp. (check) including unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book L. Sprague De Camp - Land Of Unreason (1972)	tom stacey h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by david l. fletcher (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price £1.80 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book Martin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong (2006)	author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author field to co-editor
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book Martin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong (2006)	contents: introduction (nf) brittiany a. koren the poisoned chalice (novelette) brian stableford battle of wits (short story) mickey zucker reichert the hero of killorglin (ntte) fiona patton goblin lullaby (ss) jim c. hines crumbs (ntte) esther m. friesner fellow traveller (ss) donald j. bingle food fight (ss) alan dean foster moonlighting (ss) devon monk the rose, the farmboy and the gnome (ntte) phaedra m. weldon a day at the unicorn races (ss) christina af. york dragonslayer: being the true and terrible tale of a fearsome meeting between a man and a monster (ntte) jana paniccia the murder of mr. wolf (ss) josepha sherman new yorke snow (ntte) susan sizemore meet the madfeet (ss) michael jasper finder's keeper (ss) janny wurts is this real enough (ntte) lisanne norman
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book Martin H. Greenberg - Fantasy Gone Wrong (2006)	daw books mmpb first printing, first edition original anthology of nine short stories and seven novelettes, introduction by brittiany a. koren dedication: for robert j. ambrose, when my reality wasn't always what i expected, and my fantasies were far from coming true, you were there to listen. thanks, dad, for always knowing. ---b.a.k. cover art unsigned, uncredited (of two determined-looking women carrying a garden gnome-model dwarf-in-a-red-conical-hat slung from a pole that's bowing under his weight uphill) near-meaningless daw books collectors no. 1377 no separate cat# on cover, nor within (would've been UE2380 if there were one) cover price 7.99 u.s. (10.99 can)(ada) 320pp. including (i-)viii pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc., 2pp. nf introduction, 3 end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heirs Of Hammerfell (1989)	daw books h/cvr first printing, first edition dedication: for betsy, a chip off the old block. cover (d-j) art by richard hescox (signed stylized hescox, dated, credited also on d-j back flap), jacket design by susan bissett (credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price u.s. $18.95, canada $22.95 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 800 304pp. including eight pages (2pp. reader's guide to darkover°) titles, indicia etc, four blank end pp. quarter-bound with light blue endpapers between light blue paper-covered boards in dark blue cloth, with title, author, daw logo in silver on spine cloth ° - separation of darkovan history into six outlined ages, with daw-published titles listed after each age's synopsis, plus listing of the six darkover anthologies published thus far; ace-published novels not listed
ppint. 16th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Heritage Of Hastur (1979)	london weekend television hutchinson & co. arrow p/b first printing, first uk edition "the seven domains of darkover in the fortieth year of the regency of danvan hastur" (b+w map) "thrym berger (copy)" by jack gaughan; "thrym berger" is a fictional darkovan cartographer cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn, uncredited) cover price £1.25, $4.15 australia, $3.95 new zealand 388pp. (check °) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising ° - pagination starts at "13", but this is *not* preceded by twelve unnumbered pages - only four...† † - "publishers!"
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Fire Danceer (1987)	fire dancer trilogy #1: novels of the concord: #1: "fire dancer" (1982), (this novel) #2: "dancer's luck" (1983), q.v.. #3: "dancer's illusion" (1983), q.v. and "a tangential sequel of sorts", in the author's words, to the fire dancer trilogy: #a: "timeshadow rider" (1986), q.v.
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Luck (1988)	fire dancer trilogy #2: #1: "fire dancer" (1982), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Illusion (1988)	fire dancer trilogy #3: #1: "fire dancer" (1982), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Illusion (1988)	macdonald & co. futura books first p/b printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price £2.99, (check: $8.95 australia, $11.99 new zealand) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Luck (1988)	macdonald & co. futura books first p/b printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price £2.50, (check: $8.95 australia, $11.99 new zealand) 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Fire Danceer (1987)	macdonald & co. futura books first p/b printing, first uk edition cover art signed s(over horizontal line, over)b, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed° cover price £2.50, $8.95 australia, $11.99 new zealand 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - possibly brian salmon; but n.b. this is a suggestion, definitely not "an attribution"
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Illusion (1983)	new american library signed mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price $2.95 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 192pp. (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 in publication date established nor liable to be, but printing number line of canadian-carcased copies drops the first digit, "1", formally identifying them as the second printing; this was new american library's standard operating procedure for mmpbs they produced with separately-printed merkin and canadian carcases ~10/1980 through ~10/1987
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Dancer's Luck (1983)	new american library signed mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; full painting is evidently signed; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cat# AE2253 cover price $2.95 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 176pp. (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 in publication date established nor liable to be, but printing number line of canadian-carcased copies drops the first digit, "1", formally identifying them as the second printing; this was new american library's standard operating procedure for mmpbs they produced with separately-printed merkin and canadian carcases ~10/1980 through ~10/1987
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer (1982)	thank-you, jimess.
ppint. 15th Apr 2024		Book Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer (1982)	new american library signed mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price $2.95 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 208pp. (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 in publication date established nor liable to be, but printing number line of canadian-carcased copies drops the first digit, "1", formally identifying them as the second printing; this was new american library's standard operating procedure for mmpbs they produced with separately-printed merkin and canadian carcases ~10/1980 through ~10/1987
ppint. 14th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Thendara House (1987)	random house uk, century, century hutchinson or arrow books (check) legend books pb first printing, second arrow books printing over-all, new legend sf & fantasy series which became an imprint cover art by peter andrew "paj" jones (signed paj, credited on back cover ) cover price £3.50 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Thendara House (1983)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by hannah m. g. shapero (unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 544 cover price (canada $4.50) u.s. $3.50 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. includes "the oath of the free amazon's" and joining the free amazons of darkover (fan club) refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed no priority in publication date established, but the first digit, "1", is dropped from the printing number line of canadian-carcased copies, formally identifying them as the second printing
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (Revised) (1979)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing of the revised edition plus "to keep the oath" (a new darkover novelette) marion zimmer bradley (5/1979), and with new cover art by michael whelan (signed with cartouched m/w above central figure's left shoulder, credited) cover price $2.25 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, revised edition of novel, original novelette, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (1978)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb undated° third printing, fourth ace books mmpb printing over-all cover art by michael whelan (signed with his monogram) b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph) cover price $1.75 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. ° - no date of publication/printing given, only copyright date(late 1977-1978 by mzb re-issue programme, (very late 1977-) 1978 by cover price) after which ace books published a greatly revised and extended edition, which further adds the original darkover novelette, "to keep the oath" to the book, and bears new cover art by michael whelan: cat# 06854-5, isbn 0-441-06854-5 $2.25 (5/1979) with reprints, q.v.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (1976)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb undated° second printing, third ace books mmpb printing over-all cover art by michael whelan (signed with his monogram) b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph) cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. ° - no date of publication/printing given, only copyright date; c. 1-5/1976 by end p. advertising) the next ace books mmpb printing shares the cover art by michael whelan (art signed with his monogram) & cover design whilst retaining jack gaughan's b+w art, is 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, and is also undated other than with the 1964 copyright date: cat# 06853-7, isbn 0-441-06853-7 $1.75 (late 1977-1978 by mzb re-issue programme, (very late 1977-) 1978 by cover price) after which ace books published a greatly revised and extended edition, which further adds the original darkover novelette, "to keep the oath" to the book, and bears new cover art by michael whelan: cat# 06854-5, isbn 0-441-06854-5 $2.25 (5/1979) with reprints, q.v.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Bloody Sun (1975)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb undated° first printing, second ace books mmpb printing over-all cover art by michael whelan (signed with his monogram) b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc. ° - no date of publication/printing given, only copyright date; publication date taken from locus 190, 30/6/1976 the two next known ace books mmpb printings all share new cover art by michael whelan (art signed with his monogram) & cover design whilst retaining jack gaughan's b+w art, are 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, and are also undated other than with the 1964 copyright date: cat# 06852 $1.50 (c. 1-5/1976 by end p. advertising) cat# 06853-7, isbn 0-441-06853-7 $1.75 (late 1977-1978 by mzb re-issue programme, (very late 1977-) 1978 by cover price) after which ace books published a greatly revised and extended edition, which further adds the original darkover novelette, "to keep the oath" to the book, and bears new cover art by michael whelan: cat# 06854-5, isbn 0-441-06854-5 $2.25 (5/1979) with reprints, q.v.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book David Karp - One (1960)	penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition! cover art (none) (cover design with two orange bars to either side° of typography colour coded fiction)! cover price 2'6! 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising! ° - later above and below, with line-drawn art allowed! & later, alan lane permitted spot colouring of this!
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marshall Laurens - The Z Effect (1974)	it is 671-78357-2 - the sbn - with (-125) - the cover price in cents - on the spine - and in the indicia; notes: section is wrong and should be corrected, presumably to "spine number string 671-78357-2-195" n.b. sbn is arithmetically compatible with isbn10ses - the isbn system was deliberately developed from, and to be backwardly compatible with, the sbn system.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Winds Of Darkover (1978)	#17 in the darkover series (1964-2016): #1: "darkover landfall" (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Winds Of Darkover (1985)	berkley publishing group charter communications ace mmpb eighth printing over-all, stated fifth (!), with new cover art by kirk reinert (signed, credited) cover price ($2.95 canada) $2.75 u.s. 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising 3/1986 near-identical ninth printing over-all, stated sixth printing, retains cover art, differs: cat# 89261 isbn 0-441-89261-2 cover price ($3.75 canada) $2.95 u.s. 9/1988 near-identical tenth (?) printing over-all, stated third printing (!!!) retains cover art, isbn, differs: cover price ($4.75 canada (check)) $3.50 u.s. the next known mmpb is the daw books double with "the planet savers" (1995), q.v.
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Star Of Danger (1983)	berkley publishing group ace books mmpb first printing, seventh printing over-all cover art by michael whelan retained from previous few printings, m/w absent, ?uncredited?) cover price $2.50 216pp. (check°) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - seen recorded as 160pp. - once - which seems very unlikely, but don't now have a copy of this printing
ppint. 13th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Star Of Danger (1982)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb sixth printing over-all cover art by michael whelan (signature m/w absent, uncredited, retained from previous printing) cover price $2.25 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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