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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 3rd Apr 2024		Book Eric Arthur Blair - The English People (1947)	author should^W has been varied to "eric arthur blair"
ppint. 3rd Apr 2024		Book Eric Arthur Blair - The English People (1947)	"silly", "propaganda" - george orwell (pseud. eric arthur blair)
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - The Way The Future Was (1979)	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by joseph lombadero (shared from the ballantine books h/cvr first edition) cover price $2.50 canadian-carcased copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $1.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia , table-of-contents (chapters) etc, photo section, 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 paperback printing: may, 1979
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - The Way The Future Was (1979)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by terry oakes framing a photo of frederik pohl cover (d-j) price £6.95 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 16 (check) unnumbered pp. photographic section, etc, end pp. index, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - Owl Time (1985)	contents: preface (nf introduction) by the author the man who loved owls (novelette) leanne (ntte) the conversation (novella) entertainment (nlla) "new voices 4" ed. george r. r. martin (1981), q.v.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - Preserver (1985)	the morphodite trilogy #3: #1: ''the morphodite'' (1981), q.v.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - Transformer (1983)	the morphodite trilogy #2: #1: ''the morphodite'' (1981), q.v.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - Waves (1983)	daw books undated° mmpb third printing cover art by ken w. kelly (signed, also credited) b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph) cover price $2.50 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising the near-meaningless daw books collector number is dropped from front cover refer also to printing history to distinguish from canadadian-carcassed first printing copies, which is now implicitly accounted the second printing: the third printing mmpb history number line reads 3456789
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - The Day Of The Klesh (1979)	the ler trilogy #3: #1: ''the game players of zan'' (1977), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn (1979)	yr hmbl srppnt. needs to re-read ''the day of the klesh'' a second time, to be certain whether the ler series truly constitutes a thematic trilogy, or rests an absorbing but unbalanced series whose focus shifts so greatly, that the theme is fractured beyond the point of achieving more over-all than the sum of its parts. i didn't consider it for inclusion in holocaus^W happy hamlyn paperbacks' sf & fantasy list, because hamlyn paperbacks was collapsed by its incompetent mangling-director walter clare before the question arose; but it'd've been a certainty. this is a good-to-very good novel, in a good-to-very good series, which it is as well as the introduction of a unique concept into science fiction; i'm just not certain/convinced the series actually remains centered upon the twin underlying conceptual themes of the first two books.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book M. A. Foster - The Warriors Of Dawn (1979)	the ler series #2, though first- written & published: #1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977), q.v. #2: ''the warriors of dawn'' (1975), (this novel) #3: ''the day of the klesh'' (1979), q.v. omnibus edition of #2, #1, #3: #O: ''the book of the ler'' (2016), q.v.
ppint. 2nd Apr 2024		Book Edmund Cooper - Transit (1964)	faber & faber h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by brian c. rigby (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 18/- 232pp. including six pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 1st Apr 2024		Book Edmund Cooper - Voices In The Dark (1963)	brown, watson digit books p/b second printing, with new cat#, new cover art original collection of fifteen short stories with "proem" (Introduction) by edmund cooper cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaiaa cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. precise publication date taken from l. w. currey
ppint. 1st Apr 2024		Book Edmund Cooper - Voices In The Dark (1960)	brown, watson digit books p/b first printing, first edition original collection of fifteen short stories with "proem" (Introduction) by edmund cooper cover art by ed valigursky cover price 2'- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 1st Apr 2024		Book Edmund Cooper - The Uncertain Midnight (1958)	hutchinson & co. first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition (hutchinson's may have originated the novel, but the ballantine books mmpb was the first edition to see publication). cover (d-j) art by pat marriott (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 13/6 224pp. including eight pages titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book James White - The Secret Visitors (1961)	serialised in new worlds #52, 53, 54; 10, 11, 12/1956 as "tourist planet"; don wollheim reportedly required the additional all-on space battle that appears in the ace books first edition and is retained in all further english language book publications of which i know.
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book James White - The Secret Visitors (1957)	ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet not authoritatively attributed sfaik) cover price 35¢ ½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc., advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with "master of life and death" robert silverberg (1957), q.v.
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book M. A. Foster - The Gameplayers Of Zan (1979)	the ler series #1, though second-written: #1: ''the gameplayers of zan'' (1977) (this novel) #2: ''the warriors of dawn'' (1975), q.v. #3: ''the day of the klesh'' (1979), q.v. omnibus of #1, #2 & #3: #0: ''the book of the ler'' (2006), q.v.
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book Edward E. Smith - Subspace Explorers (1968)	ace books mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, credited) b+w frontispiece by roy g. krenkel (credited, retained from the canaveral press h/cvr first edition (1965), q.v) cover price 60¢ 256pp. (check) including frontispiece, titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - only the 1965 copyright date is given: year of publication presumably taken from donald h. tuck
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book Hope Mirrlees - Lud-in-the-mist (1972)	ballantine books ltd. first printing, first uk p/b edition "about hope mirrlees and "lud-in-the-mist": the golden apples of the west" (introduction) lin carter (1970) cover art by gervasio gallardo (shared from ballantine books, inc. mmpb first printings) cover price 40p, 95¢ south africa, $1.25 australia, $1.25 new zealand, not for sale in canada 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 31st Mar 2024		Book Jane Roberts - Die Natur Der Psyche (1985)	by-line of dorothy jane roberts (1929-1984)
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Mark Clifton - When They Come From Space (1964)	hmph. i've just this week discovered that i've been labouring for sixty years under the misapprehension that this novel's title was "when they came from space" - and this, despite my evidently having typed it up correctly from time to time during these six decades. . .
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (1968)	also distributed as the trilogy in a colour-printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers which are thirds of the one painting by bob pepper, signed "pepper" at first this slipcase bore no sbn nor price. a later printing of this slipcase bears sbn 345•23525•8 of its own printed upon it.
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (1968)	also distributed as the trilogy in a printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers which are thirds of the one painting, signed "pepper"
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone (1968)	also distributed as the trilogy in a printed paper-covered slipcase, illustrated from the mmpb set covers which are thirds of the one painting, signed "pepper"
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Isaac Asimov - Asimov (1983)	omnibus of six books, not five as incorrectly stated in notes section: the three books of the original foundation trilogy (long since expanded in both directions in time), composed of various novellas and novelettes as they were, the two novels, "the stars like dust", "the naked sun", and the thematic collection, "i, robot" (the uk variant).
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Ted White - The Spawn Of The Death Machine (1974)	warner paperback library mmpb first printing, second paperback library mmpb printing over-all cover art by armand weston (signed weston, credited as a. weston) cover price 95¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 30th Mar 2024		Book Ted White - Android Avenger (1965)	thank-you jimess.
ppint. 29th Mar 2024		Book L. Sprague De Camp - Lest Darkness Fall (1969)	publication date of this printing entered above is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 8/1969.
ppint. 29th Mar 2024		Book Mark Clifton - When They Come From Space (1967)	macfadden books mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by richard powers (signed, signature partly visible, uncredited, retained from first printing) cover price 50¢ 144pp. 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 printing....january, 1963 second printing..... january, 1967

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