Books - Comments / Reviews by ppint.

Books - Comments / Reviews by ppint.

« Member Page

Page 35 of 675 : Previous : Next :

Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 27th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - Universe 2 (1972)	(maybe grosset+ dunlap-owned by now) charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb first printing, first edition original anthology of eight short stories and five novelettes, introduction by terry carr cover art by dean ellis (signed, credited) b+w interior full-page illustrations by alicia austin (all but one signed, credited), one for each story cover price 95¢ 256pp, (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 27th Feb 2024		Book Terry Carr - Universe 1 (1971)	charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb first printing, first edition original anthology of eight short stories and four novelettes, introduction by terry carr cover art by davis meltzer (unsigned, credited, inspired by "west wind, falling") b+w interior full-page illustrations, one for each story, by alicia austin (signed, credited) cover price 95¢ 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Feb 2024		Book Isaac Asimov - The Man Who Upset The Universe (1955)	should^W have^W now has ''foundation and empire'' entered in the ''english title'' field whereupon bookcat will^W automagically correctly sorts this retitling together with those editions published bearing the original title
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - The Princess Of The Atom (1951)	t. v. boardman first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (not found: d-j missing from borrowed copy) cover (d-j) price 8/6° 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between blue cloth-covered boards, titles & publishers' science fiction logo printed in black on spine, logo repeated on lower front cloth towards fly corner
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - Brigands Of The Moon (1958)	n.b. *not* credited in error to ''john campbell''
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - Brigands Of The Moon (1966)	n.b. *not* credited in error to ''john campbell''
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - Brigands Of The Moon (1958)	originally published in astounding vol.1 #3, #4, #5, #6; 3/1930, 4/1930, 5/1930, 6/1930 part one is the cover story, art by h. wesso; parts one-to-four, interior b+w art also by h. wesso re-''serialized'' in science fiction quarterly #8, fall/1942 four b+w interior illustrations by damon knight
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - Brigands Of The Moon (1958)	gregg haljan #1: #2: ''wandl, the invader'' (1961), q.v.
ppint. 26th Feb 2024		Book Ray Cummings - Wandl The Invader (1961)	gregg haljan #2: #1: ''brigands of the moon'' (1931), q.v.
ppint. 25th Feb 2024		Book Raymond F. Jones - The Alien (1951)	a transcription of this galaxy novels edition is available on project gutenberg.
ppint. 24th Feb 2024		Book Clifford D. Simak - Time And Again (1983)	mis-accounted the third printing: even allowing for the corporate forgetting of ace books' 1963 first mmpb printing (F-239), resulting in their first ace books five-digit systematic cat# allocated being 81000, this should've progressively accounted 81001 the second (instead of the third) printing, 81002 the third (instead of the fourth), and this 81003 the fourth, instead of the fifth ace books printing it actually was... so, even with the best of intentions on the parts of grosset & dunlap's tom doherty and jim baen, and then by the berkley publishing group's management, understanding of the system's rules was fading, and the system was breaking down.
ppint. 24th Feb 2024		Book Andrew J. Offutt - The Castle Keeps (1978)	abp magnum books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by les edwards (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 85p, $3.10 australia, $2.65 new zealand 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Feb 2024		Book Andrew J. Offutt - The Castle Keeps (1972)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; in ''the art of richard powers'' jane frank, richard powers (2001), q.v. cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 23rd Feb 2024		Book Vaughan Wilkins - After Bath (1945)	jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art and b+w frontispiece, other full-page interior illustrations plus title page decoration by audrey pilkington (most signed, credited) cover (d-j) price 8s. 6d. 308 (check) green top edge-stained pp. including titles, indicia, the characters (dramatis personae) etc, bound with endpapers between green cloth-covered boards, titles in black on spine and on upper front cloth with title page decoration distinguish from near-identical second impression 1945 by reference to indicia page publishing history distinguish from near-identical third impression 1947 by reference to indicia page, also differs further: bound with endpapers between light blue cloth-covered boards
ppint. 23rd Feb 2024		Book Arthur C. Clarke - Tales Of Ten Worlds (1981)	new american library signet books imprint near-identical undated° simultaneous sixth & seventh mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers with new cover art by paul alexander (signed alexander, uncredited) cat# AE1093 cover price $2.50 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution, 6th printing by number line 7.. ..13 14) cover price $2.75 (canadian-carcassed 7th printing by number line 6 7.. ..13 14 intended for distribution north of the parallel) refer also to indicia publishing history to see if the carcase was canadadian- or merkin- printed ° - date taken from locus #250, 11/1981
ppint. 23rd Feb 2024		Book Arthur C. Clarke - Tales Of Ten Worlds (1973)	new american library signet books imprint simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition reprint collection of fourteen short stories and a novella cover art by fernando fernandez (unsigned, uncredited; was on his website; not findably there now) cover price 95¢ 208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, april, 1973 and give full first printing number line 123456789 refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from & between further near-identical printings:, which progressively drop digits from the printing number line leaving the lowest remaining digit as the number of that printing, and occasionally increasing the highest number; also (not always) stating e.g. tenth printing 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 undated save for copyright & first (signet books mmpb) dates, third printing cat# Q5452 cover price 95¢ similarly undated fourth signet books mmpb printing: cat# Y7241 cover price $1.25 similarly undated fifth signet books mmpb printing: cat# W8328 cover price $1.50 cover art changes with the simultaneous near-identical undated° sixth & seventh signet books mmpb: printings with cover art by paul alexander (signed alexander, uncredited) cat# AE1093 isbn 0-451-11093-5 ° - date taken from locus #250, 11/1981
ppint. 23rd Feb 2024		Book Arthur C. Clarke - Tales Of Ten Worlds (1983)	pan macmillan pan books imprint p/b second pan printing over-all (two corgi books p/bs intervene) reprint collection of fourteen short stories and a novella cover art by peter goodfellow (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.75 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Feb 2024		Book Donald A. Wollheim - The Secret Of The 9th Planet (1973)	published in mmpb as an adult category sf novel, not a children's novel as originated by john c. winston.
ppint. 22nd Feb 2024		Book Donald A. Wollheim - The Secret Of The 9th Planet (1973)	warner paperback library mmpb first printing, second printing over-all of the paperback library mmpb setting, suitably modified, with new cat# reflecting new cover price, slightly variant title, & new cover art by stanislaw zagorski (unsigned, credited as stan zagorski) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia, ''the mysterious ninth world'' (nf within f) donald a. wollheim, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 22nd Feb 2024		Book Donald A. Wollheim - The Secret Of The Ninth Planet (1965)	n. b. mmpb published by the paperback library, inc. as adult sf category fiction, not children's.
ppint. 22nd Feb 2024		Book Donald A. Wollheim - The Secret Of The Ninth Planet (1965)	paperback library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, still sfaiaa as-yet unattributed cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, ''the mysterious ninth world'' (nf within f) donald a. wollheim, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - The Crystal Gryphon (1978)	daw books mmpb sixth printing
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - The Crystal Gryphon (1975)	daw books mmpb fourth or fifth printing (not stated by o.p.)
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Horn Crown (1981)	high halleck series #1 witch worlds associated series: witch world series #1: "witch world" (1963), q.v. for full series including sub-series listings and links. high hallack: hh#1: "horn crown" (1981), (this novel) hh#2: "year of the unicorn" (1965), q.v. hh#3: "spell of the witch world" (1972), q.v. hh#4: "the jargon pard" (1974), q.v. hh#5: "zarsthor's bane" (1978), q.v. hh#6: "songsmith" by andré norton and a. c. crispin (1992), q.v. high hallack: the crystal gryphon: cg#1: "the crystal gryphon" (1972), q.v. cg#2: "gryphon in glory" (1981), q.v. cg#3: "gryphon's eyrie" by andré norton and a. c. crispin (1984), q.v.
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1970)	universal-tandem publishing tandem books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by philip castle (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 5/- 25p 224pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 end pp: 2pp. advertising, 1p. mail-order information n.b. the planned 1978 universal imprint uk p/b from the same setting, suitably modified, did not appear. rodney matthews' cover art for it was completed and has appeared, including on andre-norton.com, q.v.
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1983)	i've seen a poorly, only partially reported further ace mmpb printing advised on the same isbn, with new cover price $3.50 no details of cover art, nor date nor ordinality of printing provided. beyond this, yr hmbl srppnt.'s seen no further report nor actual deadtree book in the wild of ''year of the unicorn'' published as a later stand-alone, english language book.
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1983)	berkley publishing group (possibly still also credits charter communications - check) ace books tenth printing over-all - and so-stated in indicia publishing history! cover art by john pound (signed, still uncredited?) cover price $2.50 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1983)	(possibly just berkley publishing group - check) grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books/imprint mmpb eighth printing over-all, incorrectly stated in indicia publishing history to be the sixth cover art by john pound (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.50 288pp..(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1981)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books seventh printing over-all, incorrectly stated in indicia to be the sixth, with new cover art by john pound (signed) cover price $2.50 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 21st Feb 2024		Book Andre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1980)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books undated° sixth mmpb printing over-all† cover by j. h. breslow (signed with his jhb monogram, retained from previous mmpb printing, uncredited) cover price $2.50 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - nor date of publication nor printing nor ordinality of printing given in indicia publishing history, only copyright date. printed and distributed before the next ace books mmpb printing, which is dated 9/1981 in its indicia publishing history and announced incorrectly as the sixth, but must be the seventh printing

Page 35 of 675 : Previous : Next :