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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ppint. 3rd Apr 2024 | | BookEric Arthur Blair - The English People (1947) | author should^W has been varied to "eric arthur blair"
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ppint. 3rd Apr 2024 | | BookEric Arthur Blair - The English People (1947) | "silly", "propaganda" - george orwell (pseud. eric arthur blair)
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookFrederik 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
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookFrederik 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
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. 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.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - Preserver (1985) | the morphodite trilogy #3:
#1: ''the morphodite'' (1981), q.v.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. A. Foster - Transformer (1983) | the morphodite trilogy #2:
#1: ''the morphodite'' (1981), q.v.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. 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
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. 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.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. 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.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookM. 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.
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ppint. 2nd Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund 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
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund 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
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund 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.
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ppint. 1st Apr 2024 | | BookEdmund 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
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJames 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.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJames 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.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookM. 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.
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookEdward 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
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookHope 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
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ppint. 31st Mar 2024 | | BookJane Roberts - Die Natur Der Psyche (1985) | by-line of dorothy jane roberts (1929-1984)
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMark 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. . .
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn 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.
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn 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"
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ppint. 30th Mar 2024 | | BookMervyn 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"
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