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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 14th Feb 2024		Book Mary 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)
ppint. 14th Feb 2024		Book Mary 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
ppint. 14th Feb 2024		Book Mary 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
ppint. 14th Feb 2024		Book Robert 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
ppint. 14th Feb 2024		Book Greg 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Elizabeth 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Elizabeth 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Algis 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Algis 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Algis 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Algis 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book Edmond 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
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book John 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!
ppint. 13th Feb 2024		Book John 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!
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book John 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
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book John 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
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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)
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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)
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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)
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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)
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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)
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel R. Delany - Quark/2 (1971)	author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel R. Delany - Quark/3 (1971)	author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel R. Delany - Quark/4 (1971)	author field should^W has been varied to editor and co-author to co-editor
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel 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
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel 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
ppint. 12th Feb 2024		Book Samuel 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.
ppint. 11th Feb 2024		Book Andre 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
ppint. 11th Feb 2024		Book Neil R. Jones - The Sunless World (1967)	professor jameson #2: #1: ''the planet of the double sun'' (1967), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 11th Feb 2024		Book Neil 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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