ppint. 9th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1980) | daw books mmpb undated fifth printing (12/1980 from locus) bears
cover price $2.95
isbn 0879976292
cat# UE1629
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024 | | BookMarion Zimmer Bradley - The World Wreckers (1979) | hutchinson publishing group arrow books imprint uk p/b, first uk edition
dedication:
''to four people who---each in his or her own way---kept my sense of wonder alive:
anne mccaffrey
juanita coulson
ursula le guin
and
randall garrett''
cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn)
cover price 95p, $3.20 australia recommended. $2.95 new zealand
224pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc, three end pp. advertising
cover design is uniform with that of arrow books' then upcoming ''legend books'' f&sf imprint edition darkover series uk p/bs, but neither the logo nor the word, 'legend' appear upon this book.
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024 | | BookPhilip E. High - Invader On My Back (1968) | robert hale first printing, first uk and first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j art) by colin andrews (unsigned, credited on d-j flap)
cover d-j price 8/6
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 9th Apr 2024 | | BookDonald A. Wollheim - Destination Saturn (1968) | half ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed with his monogram)
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan (signed "jg")
cover price 60¢
256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with "invader on my back" by philip e. high, q.v.
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ppint. 8th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - Mistress Masham's Repose (1963) | penguin books ltd. peacock books first printing, first p/b or first uk p/b edition
cover art by "marion" (unsigned, credited; sfaiaa not as-yet further identified)
b+w 2pp. frontispiece the palace of malplaquet by raymond mcgrath (as endpapers in the h/cvr)
cover price 4/-
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 8th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - Mistress Masham's Repose (1947) | jonathan cape first printing, first uk h/cvr edition
dedication: for amaryllis virginia garnett
cover (d-j) art (b+w line-drawn elevation of a domed front doorway - possibly of the "repose", with pillars & sidelights, etc., upon a greyish-blue field)
the palace of malplaquet (3-D view b+w map front & rear endpapers) by raymond mcgrath
cover (d-j) price 8/6
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with b+w map endpapers between (slightly greenish-) grey cloth-covered boards, title, author & jonathan cape logo on spine in deep red ink
refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least one near-identical reprinting in 1958
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ppint. 8th Apr 2024 | | BookRhoda Power - Redcap Runs Away (1957) | penguin books ltd. puffin story book first printing, first p/b or first uk p/b edition
dedication: the puffin edition of this book is for basil postan
cover art and separate, different-but-matching full-page back cover art unsigned
b+w frontispiece and interior illustrations by cyril walter hodges (c. walter hodges)
cat# given as PS 103 above synopsis of set-up on half-title page
cover price 3/6
320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, end pp.
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ppint. 8th Apr 2024 | | BookRhoda Power - Redcap Runs Away (1952) | jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art (iirc, and frontispiece)
b+w interior illustrations by cyril walter hodges (credited as c. walter hodges)
cover (d-j) price
304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between blue cloth-covered boards, titles on spine and large decoration on front cloth in light orange ink
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ppint. 7th Apr 2024 | | BookRichard Curtis - Future Tense (1968) | contents:
on prediction (nf introduction) Isaac asimov
the land ironclads (novelette) h. g. wells, the strand magazine 12/1903
new york 2660 (excerpt) hugo gernsback (ch. 5 of " ralph 124C41+" (1925)
billenium (ss) j. g. ballard, new worlds 112, 11/1961 as "billennium"
the lysenko maze (ss) david grinnell (pseud. donald a. wollheim) punch 30/12/1953
QRM interplanetary (ntte) george o. smith, astounding vol. xxx #2, 10/1942 (a venus equilateral story)
with these hands (ntte) c. m. kornbluth, galaxy vol.3 #3, 12/1951
politics (ntte) murray leinster, amazing vol. 7 #3, 6/1932
the day rembtandt went public (ss) arnold m. aeurbach, harpers magazine 7/1962
solution unsatisfactory (ntte) anson macdonald (pseud. robert a. heinlein), astounding vol. xxvii #3, 5/1951
security check (ss) arthur c. clarke, the evening news 13/1/1956
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ppint. 7th Apr 2024 | | BookRichard Curtis - Future Tense (1968) | dell publishing mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
reprint anthology of four short stories and five novelettes with nf introduction by isaac asimov
cover art by hoot von zitzewitz (unsigned, credited hoot v. z. on back cover)
cover price 60¢
224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
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 --- september 1968
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ppint. 6th Apr 2024 | | BookWalter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1961) | bantam books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 50¢
288pp. (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 banam edition published february 1961
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ppint. 6th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - The Mists Of Doom (1977) | kensington publishing corps zebra books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by doug beekman (signed beekman, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
256pp. including titles, indicia, introduction by andrew j. offut, etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 6th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - The Undying Wizard (1976) | locus #196, 30/11/1976, gives this as actually published 10/1976.
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ppint. 5th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Clansman Of Andor (1979) | robert hale & co. took a licence to publish a uk h/cvr edition from abp, which i understand appeared 12/1979, but although i've the data for it, i've never actually seen this h/cvr edition.
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ppint. 5th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Clansman Of Andor (1979) | abp magnum books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, uncredited, reproduced on geofftaylor-artist.com)
cover price 90p, $3.25 australia, $2.95 new zealand
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookGeorge H. Smith - Those Sexy Saucer People (1967) | greenleaf classics mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by ed smith
cover price 95¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - The Once And Future King (1958) | wm collins sons first printing, first omnibus edition and the first publication of #4 in the series
omnibus of the four novels, three more-or-less revised (or even rewritten), in the eponymous series, q.v.
cover (d-j) art: none, cover is typographical upon a designed decorated horizontally-divided field
cover (d-j) price 25/-
680pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
refer to indicia publishing history to see which of many printings is held; d-j art eventually changed
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - The Sword In The Stone (1938) | the once and future king #1:
#1: "the sword in the stone" (1938), q.v.
#2: "the witch in the wood" (1939), q.v.
cut and revised - more-or-less rewritten - as:
#2a: "the queen of air and darkness" (1958), q.v.
#3: "the ill-made knight" (1941), q.v.
#4: "the candle in the wind" (1958), q.v.
omnibus of #1 (revised), #2a, #3 (revised), & #4:
#O: "the once and future king" (1958), q.v.
intended to be #5, drafted but abandoned, and parts subsumed Into various others in the series;
much later the - or a - draft published as a stand-alone book - which, n.b., it most decidedly is not:
#5: "the book of merlyn" (1977), q.v.
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - The Sword In The Stone (1938) | collins 48 pall mall london h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price 8/6
340pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - The Ill-made Knight (1941) | the once and future king #3
#1: "the sword in the stone" (1938), q.v.
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookT. H. White - The Ill-made Knight (1941) | collins 48 pall mall london h/cvr first printing, first uk edition; stated © 1941, may be first edition
cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price
296pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between red cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Sword Of The Gael (1977) | tbl sphere books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by melvyn grant (signed melvyn, uncredited)
b+w map uncredited
cover price 75p, 82p republic of ireland, 80c malta, $2.50 australia, $2.50 new zealand
224pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction by andrew j. offut, b+w map, etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Operation: Super Ms. (1974) | non-sfnal light porn.
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Operation: Super Ms. (1974) | berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by mel crair (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 95¢
240pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookPaul Ilton - The Last Days Of Sodom And Gomorrah (1962) | new american library signet books mmpb second printing, with new
cover art by robert maguire (unsigned, cut out from first printing cover art and shot up)
cover price 50¢
160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
may exist in near-identical canadian-carcased variant; please check indicia and post a comment "here" giving the wording declaring this, and declared printing no., if the copy held was. thank-you.
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookAndrew J. Offutt - Ardor On Aros (1978) | dell mmpb second printing bears new cat# and isbn incorporatng the previous cat#:
cover art by frank frazetta (signed "frazetta") retained from first printing
cover price $1.50
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 4th Apr 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - The Way The Future Was (1983) | granada publishing in (or just wm. collins sons; check°) granada imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by ean taylor
cover price £2.50
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. index
four unnumbered pages b+w photograph section between pp. 167-168
° - wm. collins sons bought granada publishing from the granada group in 1983
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ppint. 3rd Apr 2024 | | BookTex Bradley - End Of The Trail (1964) | this pseudonym is probably a john spencer & co. house name!
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ppint. 3rd Apr 2024 | | BookTex Bradley - End Of The Trail (1964) | published under a pseudonym!
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ppint. 3rd Apr 2024 | | BookTex Bradley - End Of The Trail (1964) | written by john s. glasby!
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