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ppint. 17th Mar 2024		Book Lajos Ruff - House Of Torture (1959)	"(the brain washing machine)" is not a subtitle! "(the brain washing machine)" is the previous title under which the book was published! "(the brain washing machine)" is the title chosen by robert hale for their h/cvr edition! "(the brain washing machine)" h/cvr published by robert hale bore different cover (d-j) art! mod edit: removed subtitle and added to English title field
ppint. 17th Mar 2024		Book Norman Daniels - Voodoo Slave (1974)	warner paperback library mmpb first printing, second paperback library mmpb printing over-all, with new cover art (unsigned, uncredited) cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 17th Mar 2024		Book Norman Daniels - Voodoo Slave (1970)	coronet communications pyramid books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by fred pfeiffer (signed) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Honky In The Woodpile (1973)	max curfew series #3: #1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Honky In The Woodpile (1973)	tbl sphere books p/b first printing, first uk, and i think world first, p/b edition cover art unsigned colour photographic cover price 35p, 1.10c australia, 1.10c new zealand 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising the advertised - and printed - antipodean cover prices may not have been quite what was intended
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Honky In The Woodpile (1971)	constable & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art unsigned cover (d-j) price £1.75 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between dark grey-to-black cloth-covered boards, title author, publisher on gold on spine
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Good Men Do Nothing (1971)	max curfew series #2: #1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Good Men Do Nothing (1971)	walter reade organization pyramid books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art by j. asaro cover price 75¢ 192pp. 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 pyramid edition published may 1971 an isbn is given, but it is that of the hodder & stoughton first edition
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Good Men Do Nothing (1970)	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by jefferson godwin (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price 25/- £1.25 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - A Plague On Both Your Causes (1971)	max curfew series #1: #1: "a plague on both your causes" (1969) (this novel) aka "blacklash" (merkin mmpb 1969), q.v. #2: "good men do nothing" (1970), q.v. #3: "honky in the woodpile" (1971), q.v.
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - A Plague On Both Your Causes (1971)	hodder & stoughton hodder paperbacks first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, unremarkable cover price 25p 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - A Plague On Both Your Causes (1970)	the thriller book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition, for sale to members of the book club only, not for sale to the general public by way of trade via the newsagents nor book trades nor otherwise cover (d-j) art (unsigned , uncredited monochrome red with black typography) cover price (none) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - Blacklash (1969)	walter reade organization pyramid books mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art by fred pfeiffer (signed) cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John Brunner - A Plague On Both Your Causes (1969)	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, colour photographic) cover (d-j) price 25/- 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book Robert Silverberg - Time Of The Great Freeze (1988)	tom doherty associates tor books p/b first printing, not first p/b edition cover art by thomas (tom) kidd (signed) 0-812-55470-1 isbn in canada cover price $3.95 can(ada) cover price $2.95 u.s. 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book Otis Adelbert Kline - Jan In India (1974)	jan of the jungle #2: no significant fantasy content, unlike #1: #1: "jan of the jungle" (1937 as "call of the savage"), q.v.
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book Otis Adelbert Kline - Jan In India (1974)	fictioneer books tp/b first printing, first edition (limited to 1,500 copies) cover art by steve leialoha cover price $3.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book Otis Adelbert Kline - Jan Of The Jungle (1966)	serialised in argosy 18, 25/4/1931, 2, 9, 16, 25/5/1931 sequel is "jan in india" (1974), q.v. (serialised in argosy 12, 19, 26/1/1935)
ppint. 16th Mar 2024		Book John T. Phillifent - Hierarchies (1973)	connected with the earlier-published "genius unlimited" (1972), q.v. but may be set before that novel.
ppint. 15th Mar 2024		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Encounter In Space (1952)	author should^W has been varied to "kenneth bulmer" to complete unifying bookcat's listing of ken's h. k. bulmer catalogue.
ppint. 15th Mar 2024		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Empire Of Chaos (1953)	author should^W has been varied to "kenneth bulmer" to complete unifying bookcat's listing of ken's h. k. bulmer catalogue.
ppint. 14th Mar 2024		Book Kenneth Bulmer - Space Treason (1952)	although kenneth bulmer's by-line on the earlier (hamilton's era) panther books is usually "h. k. bulmer", sometimes "h. kenneth bulmer", it was as "ken bulmer" that he was known - well-known - in fandom, and as "kenneth bulmer" he was later known on those of his sf books not published as by "dray prescott", "alan burt akers", "tully zetford", "manning norvill", etc, and also as "adam hardy", "andrew quiller", "bruno krauss", "ken blake " - and other pseudonyms, some shared (some of which were, and some of which may've been house names°); so it makes sense to unify his non-house name bylined works' listing under "kenneth bulmer". ° - especially in the fifties and early sixties, much of ken's work was published under publishers' house names.
ppint. 14th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Analog 6 (1969)	contents: introduction (nf) by the editor prototaph (short story) keith laumer (vol.lxxvii #1, 3/1966) bookworm, run! (novelelette) vernor vinge (vol.lxxvii #1, 3/1966) the easy way out (ss) "lee correy" (vol.lxxvii #2, 4/1966) (usual by-line of g. harry stine on his fiction) giant meteor impact (nf) j. e. enever (vol.lxxvii #1, 3/1966) early warning (ss) robin s. scott (aka robin scott wilson) (vol.lxxvii #4, 6/1966) call him lord (ntte) gordon r. dickson (vol.lxxvii #3, 5/1966) cwacc strikes again (ntte) "hank dempsey" (vol.lxxvii #4, 6/1966) (pseudonym of harry harrison) stranglehold (ss) christopher anvil (vol.lxxvii #4, 6/1966) the message (ntte) piers anthony, frances hall (vol.lxxvii #5, 7/1966) light of other days (ss) bob shaw (vol.lxxvii #6, 8/1966) something to say (ntte) john berryman (vol.lxxvii #6, 8/1966) letter from a higher critic (ss) stewart robb (vol.lxxvii #3, 11/1966) ...not a prison make (ntte) joseph p. martino (vol.lxxviii #1, 9/1966) 10:01 a.m. (ss) alexander malec (vol.lxxvii #1, 3/1966)
ppint. 14th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Analog 7 (1970)	contents: weyr search (novella) anne mccaffrey (vol.lxxx #2, 10/1967) (in "dragonflight", 1968) the last command (short story) keith laumer (vol.lxxviii #5, 1/1967) there is a crooked man (ss) jack wodhams (vol.lxxviii #6, 2/1967) burden of proof (ss) bob shaw (vol.lxxix #3, 5/1967) (a "slow glass" story) dead end (ss) mike hodous (vol.lxxix #3, 5/1967) aim for the heel (novelelette) john t. phillifent (vol.lxxix #5, 7/1967) the featherbedders (ntte) frank herbert (vol.lxxix #6, 8/1967) fiesta brava (nlla) mack reynolds (vol.lxxx #1, 9/1967) (a "united planets" story) lost calling (ss) "verge foray" (pseud. howard l. myers) (vol.lxxx #1, 9/1967) elementary mistake (ss) "winston p. sanders" (poul anderson) (vol.lxxviii #6, 2/1967) free vacation (ss) w. macfarlane (vol.lxxx #2, 10/1967)
ppint. 14th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Analog 8 (1971)	contents: gottlos (novelelette) colin kapp (vol.lxxxiv #3, 11/1969) in his image (ntte) robert chilson (vol.lxxxiv #1, 9/1969) hawk among the sparrows (novella) dean mclaughlin (vol.lxxxi #5, 7/1968) the powers of observation (short story) harry harrison (vol.lxxxii #1, 9/1968) jump (ss) william holmes (vol.lxxiv #2, 10/1969) womb to tomb (ss) joseph wesley (vol.lxxiii #6, 8/1969) the hidden ears (ss) lawrence a. perkins (vol.lxxii #5, 1/1969) winkin, blinkin and πr² (ss) r. c. fitzpatrick (vol.lxxi #5, 7/1968) testing... one, two, three, four (ss) steve chapman (vol. lxxiv #4, 12/1969)
ppint. 13th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - A World By The Tale (1970)	should^W have^W "analog 3" added in english title field, after which bookcat will automagically sort this correctly together with the other editions
ppint. 13th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - The Permanent Implosion (1970)	should^W have^W "analog 4" added in english title field, after which bookcat will automagically sort this correctly together with the other editions
ppint. 13th Mar 2024		Book John W. Campbell Jr. - Countercommandment (1970)	should^W have^W "analog 5" added in english title field, after which bookcat will automagically sort this correctly together with the other editions
ppint. 12th Mar 2024		Book Sara Paretsky - Fire Sale (2006)	a vi warshawski novel - seems to be the eleventh such
ppint. 12th Mar 2024		Book Sara Paretsky - Fire Sale (2006)	hodder headline hodder & stoughton hodder books imprint first general p/b printing dedication: for rachel, phoebe, eva, samantha, and maia --- my own hope for change in the world cover art (none really: darker version of h/cvr d-j "art") cover price £6.99 516pp. including twelve pages titles, indicia, table-of-contents, etc, 5 blank end pp.

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