ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - The Drylands (1993) | the drylands series novel
in the same near(ish) future setting as - three novelettes published in isaac asimov's magazine of science fiction:
water bringer (iamsf vol.15 #3, 3/1991) the cover story, and one b+w illustration, art by broeck steadman
celilo (iamsf vol.15 #7, 6/1991) one b+w illustration by broeck steadman
the bee man (iamsf vol.15 #10, 9/1991) one b+w illustration by broeck steadman
#1: "the drylands" (1993), (this novel)
the collected series:
#O: "water-rites" (pod 2007), q.v. (ebook 2014)
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - The Drylands (1993) | random house group ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
discovery ("del discovery rey") series
cover art by peter peebles (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price (canada $5.50) u.s. $4.50
284pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookMary Rosenblum - Chimera (1993) | random house group ballantine books mmpb first printing, first edition
discovery / ("del discovery rey") series
cover art by peter peebles (signed with stylised p, credited)
cover price (canada $5.99) u.s. $4.99
328pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookRobert A. Heinlein - Tunnel In The Sky (1973) | pan imprint p/b second printing, with new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited; by someone copying the ideas and colours of mortelmans' first printing cover art - but approximating it, not a close copy)
cover price 30p (check for overseas territories' prices)
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 14th Feb 2024 | | BookGreg Bear - The Wind From A Burning Woman (1990) | popular library / questar mmpb first printing, not first p/b (was ace mmpb, 1984)
published by warner books, inc.
first edition was arkham house h/cvr, 1983
reprint collection of two short stories, two novelettes and two novellas, with preface by greg bear
cover art by jim burns (entitled ''the refuge'', in ''tour of the universe'' malcolm edwards, robert holdstock (1980), q.v.) (later collected in ''lightship'' jim burns, chris evans (1985), q.v.)
cover price $4.95 usa, $5.95 can(ada)
256pp. including xii pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, preface, etc; 4 end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Once A Hero (1998) | baen publishing enterprises baen books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art by gary ruddell (unsigned, credited, shared with h/cvr d-j art)
cover price $6.99 ($8.99 canada)
416pp. (fish out and check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Once A Hero (1997) | baen publishing enterprises baen books h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by gary ruddell (unsigned, credited)
cover (d-j) price $21.00 ($28.00 Canada)
416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
distinguish from near-identical merkin sfbc edition (6/1997) which inter alia bears
sfbc cat# 15657 on d-j
but still bears the baen books isbn in its indicia, and quite possibly elsewhere
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookAlgis Budrys - Rogue Moon (1987) | near-identical second printing (° or else remaining stock re-priced by victor gollancz sticky label, at)
cover price £3.50
° - but i don't have a copy of this to hand, and cannot confirm which, or else the second printing's date
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookAlgis Budrys - Rogue Moon (1987) | victor gollancz ltd. b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
gollancz classic sf series (first series) #11
cover art by colin hay (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.95
180pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookAlgis Budrys - Rogue Moon (1969) | popular library mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
questar series
cover art by james gurney (signed gurney, credited)
cover price $3.50 u.s.a. ($4.50 can(ada))
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookAlgis Budrys - Rogue Moon (1978) | victor gollancz first printing, first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art none, typographical in black and red on gollancz yellow field
cover (d-j) price £3.95
180pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 3 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - Doomstar (1969) | belmont publications belmont imprint mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from first printing
cover price 50¢
160pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 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 adding line stating second printing march 1969
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn E. Muller - Dark Continuum (1964) | john spencer & co. house name!
on this book, hiding the identity of the notoriously self-effacing rev. lionel fanthorpe, mbis!
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ppint. 13th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn E. Muller - Dark Continuum (1964) | john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition!
cover art unsigned, uncredited!
cover price 2'6!
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp!
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Shift Key (1987) | abp group methuen london p/b first printing, apparently the first edition
cover art by peter elson (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £2.50
232pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Children Of The Thunder (1990) | macdonald futura publications sphere / orbit p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £3.99, $9.99 australia, $15.95 new zealand
400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given, taken from locus
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Sunless World (1967) | contents:
three professor jameson novelettes first published in amazing stories:
into the hydrosphere (vol.8 #6, 10/1933)
time's mausoleum (vol.8 #8, 12/1933)
the sunless world (vol.9 #8, 12/1934)
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Doomsday On Ajiat (1968) | contents:
three professor jameson novelettes and one novella:
the novella and one novelette apparently original to this 1968 collection
two novelettes first published in super science stories & astonishing stories:
in the meteoric cloud (novella) (1968)
the accelerated world (1968)
the metal moon (super science stories vol.5 #4, 9/1949)
doomsday on ajiat (astonishing stories vol.10 #1, 10/1942), (super science stories [canadian] vol.1 #4, 2/1943)
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Twin Worlds (1967) | contents:
three professor jameson novelettes first published in amazing stories:
twin worlds (vol.11 #2, 4/1937)
on the planet fragment (vol.11 #5, 10/1937)
the music-monsters (vol.12 #2, 4/1938)
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Space War (1967) | contents:
three professor jameson novelettes first published in amazing stories:
zora of the zoromes (vol.9 #11, 3/1935)
space war (vol.10 #4, 7/1935)
labyrinth (vol.10 #9, 4/1936)
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Planet Of The Double Sun (1967) | contents:
three professor jameson novelettes first published in amazing stories:
the jameson satellite (vol.6 #4, 7/1931)
the planet of the double sun (vol.6 #11, 2/1932)
the return of the tripeds (vol.7 #2, 5/1932)
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/2 (1971) | author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/3 (1971) | author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/4 (1971) | author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/4 (1971) | warner books/coronet communications (check) paperback library mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition
original anthology of five short stories, four novelettes, two b+w artwork groups, two poems
cover art by martin last (unsigned, credited in table-of-contents)
cover price $1.25
240pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction by the editors etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: august, 1971
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/3 (1971) | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition
original anthology of twelve short stories, a novella, three b+w artwork groups, two poems
cover art by roger penney (unsigned, credited in table-of-contents)
cover price $1.25
240pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, nf introduction by the editors etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 12th Feb 2024 | | BookSamuel R. Delany - Quark/2 (1971) | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition
original anthology of twelve short stories, two novelettes, three poems, two b+w artwork sections
cover art by ira cohen (unsigned photographic collage, uncredited; attributed by samuel r. delany on blackgate.com/2021/02/09) (where he also explains how and why this original anthology series came to a very abrupt and unexpected end)
cover price $1.25
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction by the editors etc.
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookAndre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1974) | charter communications, inc. ace books undated mmpb third ace books printing over-all
first standard (near uk a-format p/b) tall mmpb printing, text not re-set, with new
cover art by j. h. breslaw (signed with jhb monogram on horse's mantling)
cover price 95¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Sunless World (1967) | professor jameson #2:
#1: ''the planet of the double sun'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Doomsday On Ajiat (1968) | professor jameson #5:
#1: ''the planet of the double sun'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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