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ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1984)	daw books undated near-identical seventh and eighth printings cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $3.50 cat# UE1951 isbn 0-87997-951-8 liable to be simultaneous if the carcase of one is canadadian-printed, carcass of t'other u.s.-printed: but this not yet seen/seen reported.
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1992)	daw books mmpb eleventh or twelfth printing; which not advised by original contributor.
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1984)	daw books mmpb seventh or eighth printing; but which not advised by original contributor.
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1983)	daw books mmpb sixth printing (1983) reported by few bearing cover price $2.95 isbn 0-87997-812-0 cat# UE1812
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Stormqueen! (1980)	daw books mmpb undated fifth printing (12/1980 from locus) bears cover price $2.95 isbn 0879976292 cat# UE1629
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - The World Wreckers (1979)	Rated 9/10 climactic novel of two of the main themes of the darkover series,q.v.; the relationship between the expanding terran empire, mainly benignly and protectively inclined towards darkover, but very interested in the power of the darkovan mental gifts or talents, and the privileged mentally talented darkovan aristocracy, jealous of their wealth, position and political power, for which they have paid a high price over generations, not least in the selective breeding to produce and concentrate particular laran powers, originally the sole guarantee of human survival upon this planet, as well as of these immense, albeit somewhat specialised mental powers. this hard-won over many years, and sometimes very unstable balance, such as it is, is undermined by a powerful commercial corporation seeking to gain control of these powers and their potentially extremely profitable exploitation, without any understanding of, or interest in, the risks involved - whatever the human or environmental costs of achieving this might prove to be - - including to the young regis hastur, newly come into his lordship of one of the most powerful families of the comyn aristocracy, full of noble ambitions and idealistic plans to improve the lot of ordinary darkovans, to promote talent whether it be found in the comyn or the common, "ordinary" people, and facing opposition from the more traditionally-minded and entrenched conservatives. - and the human costs most certainly will not be low, as the simplest, quickest - and, most importantly, cheapest - method would seem to be by selective assassination of the controlling comyn aristocracy; - selective assassination - or, if needs be, their wholesale slaughter. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Marion 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.
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Philip 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
ppint. 9th Apr 2024		Book Donald 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.
ppint. 8th Apr 2024		Book T. 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.
ppint. 8th Apr 2024		Book T. 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
ppint. 8th Apr 2024		Book Rhoda 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.
ppint. 8th Apr 2024		Book Rhoda 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
ppint. 7th Apr 2024		Book Richard 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
ppint. 7th Apr 2024		Book Richard 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
ppint. 6th Apr 2024		Book Walter 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
ppint. 6th Apr 2024		Book Andrew 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
ppint. 6th Apr 2024		Book Andrew J. Offutt - The Undying Wizard (1976)	locus #196, 30/11/1976, gives this as actually published 10/1976.
ppint. 5th Apr 2024		Book Andrew 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.
ppint. 5th Apr 2024		Book Andrew 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book George 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.
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book T. 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book T. 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.
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book T. 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book T. H. White - The Ill-made Knight (1941)	the once and future king #3 #1: "the sword in the stone" (1938), q.v.
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book T. 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book Andrew 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book Andrew J. Offutt - Operation: Super Ms. (1974)	non-sfnal light porn.
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book Andrew 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
ppint. 4th Apr 2024		Book Paul 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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