ppint. 21st Feb 2024 | | BookAndre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1976) | (possibly grosset & dunlap by now) charter communications, inc. ace books undated° fourth printing over-all
cover art by j. h. breslow (signed with his jhb monogram, retained from third printing, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
° - date and ordinality of printing from grosset & dunlap charter communications ace fifth printing indicia
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ppint. 21st Feb 2024 | | BookAndre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1979) | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb fifth printing over-all
cover art by j. (jack) h. breslow (signed with jhb monogram, retained from previous printings but in re-designed cover)
cover price $1.95
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
indicia publishing history includes line giving date of undated immediately previous printing:
fourth ace printing: january 1976
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ppint. 21st Feb 2024 | | BookCharles L. Harness - The Paradox Men (1955) | and thank-you again, jimess.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2024 | | BookJack Williamson - Dome Around America (1955) | half 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; attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library
cover price 35¢
½ 320pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
doubled with ''the paradox men'' charles harness (1953 as ''flight into yesterday''), q.v.
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ppint. 21st Feb 2024 | | BookJack Williamson - Dome Around America (1955) | thank-you, jimess.
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14 (1985) | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | author field should^W has been varied to editor
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985
this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985
this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | victor gollancz yp/b first printing, simultaneous first uk edition
card covers bind-up of the same print-run signatures as the victor gollancz h/cvr first printing
cover art none, typographical cover
cover price £4.95
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between card covers
1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - Best Sf Of The Year 14 (1985) | victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, simultaneous first uk edition
collected signatures of the same printing also bound in card covers as the victor gollancz yp/b edition
cover (d-j) art none; typographical cover
cover (d-j) price £9.95
376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown is dropped from the gollancz h/cvr & yp/b editions
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14 (1985) | first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1985
this reprint anthology of the best science fiction stories of 1984 was not first published in 1972
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookFletcher Pratt - Land Of Unreason (1972) | tom stacey h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
cover (d-j) art by david l. fletcher (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £1.80
268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookL. Sprague De Camp - Land Of Unreason (1970) | ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition
adds ''about ''land of unreason'', l. sprague de camp and fletcher pratt: a michigan yankee in king oberon's court'' (nf) lin carter
cover art by donna violetti (signed violetti, credited)
cover price 95¢
252pp. (check) including (i-)xi pp. titles, indicia etc, nf introduction by lin carter, end p. advertising
refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed; no priority established nor liable to be, both state first ballantine books edition: january, 1970
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ppint. 20th Feb 2024 | | BookHenry Kuttner - Bypass To Otherness (1963) | contents:
cold war (novelette) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxv #1, 10/1949; atlas bre vol.1 #3, 6/1950 (hogben)
call him demon (ntte) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxix #10, fall(10)/1946 as by keith hammond
the dark angel (ntte) startling stories vol.13 #2, 3/1946
the piper's son (ntte) astounding vol. xxxiv #6, 2/1945 as by lewis padgett
absalom (short story) startling stories vol.14 #2, fall(10)/1946 (baldies)
the little things (ss) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxix #1, fall(10)/1946
nothing but gingerbread left (ss) astounding vol. xxx #5, 1/1943
housing problem (ss) charm (merkin women's magazine) 10/1944
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ppint. 19th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14 (1985) | contents:
introduction (nf) terry carr
press enter [splodge] (novella) john varley
blued moon (novelette) connie willis
summer solstice (ntte) charles l. harness
morning child (short story) gardner dozois
the aliens who knew, i mean, everything (ss) george (geo) alec effinger
a day in the skin (or, the century we were out of them) (ss) tanith lee
instructions (ss) bob leman
the lucky strike (ntte) kim stanley robinson
greenhearts (ss) lee montgomerie
bloodchild (ntte) octavia e. butler
trojan horse (ntte) michael (g.) swanick
fears (ss) pamela sargent
trinity (nlla) nancy kress
1984, the sf year in review (nf) charles n. brown
recommended reading (nf) terry carr
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ppint. 19th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14 (1985) | should be de-linked from the 1972 ballantine books #1:
this tor book is the first edition of #14 as stated in submission, and as given in the english title.
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ppint. 19th Feb 2024 | | BookTerry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #14 (1985) | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first edition
''terry carr's best science fiction of the year'' on cover
aka ''best sf/science fiction of the year 14'' ed. terry carr (victor gollancz 1985), q.v.
reprint anthology of two novellas, five novelettes and six short stories, with nf introduction & recommended reading list by terry carr, review of the sfnal year by charles n. brown (founder-editor-publisher of locus)
cover art by michael w. carroll (unsigned, credited)
isbn 0-812-53274-0 can(ada)
cover price can(ada) $3.95
cover price u.s. $3.50
384pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookDavid Griffiths - Astro Race (1951) | ''king lang'' is/was a curtis warren house name used on novels by at least five different uk authors
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookGail Kimberly - Dracula Began (1976) | harcourt brace jovanovich pyramid books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by george ziel (unsigned, uncredited; on lyle munroe books website of cover artists)
cover price $1.25
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookEdgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers (1983) | bluejay books tp/b first printing, possibly first tp/b (the distribution system used for, and therefore the status of avon books' equinox p/b series is still uncertain)
a bluejay special edition (series)
adds new nf afterword by peter s. beagle
dedication: to john v. padovano
cover art by john pierard (unsigned, credited)
cover price $5.95
232pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterword (nf) peter s. beagle, advertising
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookEdgar Pangborn - A Mirror For Observers (1975) | avon books equinox imprint b-format p/b first printing
rediscovery series #12
cover art by stanislaw fernandes (aka stanislaw fernandez) (signed, mis-credited to ark wong)
cover price $1.95, canada $2.25
cat# 24711 in canada
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983) | le comte de saint-germain series C#1:
#1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Blood Games (1989) | le comte de saint-germain series #3:
#1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Palace (1988) | le comte de saint-germain series #2:
#1: "hotel transylvania" (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983) | contents:
the spider glass (novelette) in ''shadows 4'' ed. charles l. grant (1981), q.v.
renewal (novella) in ''shadows 5'' ed. charles l. grant (1982), q.v.
art songs (short story) in ''a fantasy reader'' eds. jeff frame, jack rems (1981), q.v.
seat partner (ss) in ''nightmares'' ed. charles l. grant (1979), q.v.
cabin 33 (nlla) in ''shadows 3'' ed. charles l. grant (1980), q.v.
my favourite enigma: the historical count saint-germain (nf) chelsea quinn yarbro (original to this collection)
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983) | simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
reprint collection of two novellas, a novelette and two short stories, all featuring le comte de saint-germain
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price $2.95
208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. including nf article by chelsea quinn yarbro, advertising
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Crusader's Torch (1989) | atta olivia clemens series #2:
prequel series to le comte de saint-germain series, q.v.
#1: ''a flame in byzantium'' (1987), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 18th Feb 2024 | | BookChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Crusader's Torch (1989) | thomas doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by manuel pérez-santjulián ''sanjulian'' clemente
isbn can(ada) 0-812-520179-8
cover price can(ada) $5.95
cover price u.s. $4.95
476pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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