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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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Doomsday On Ajiat (1968) | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gray morrow (unsigned, credited to morrow on back cover)
b+w interior illustration unsigned, uncredited
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Twin Worlds (1967) | professor jameson #4:
#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 - Twin Worlds (1967) | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gray morrow (unsigned, credited as morrow on back cover)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - Space War (1967) | professor jameson #3:
#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 - Space War (1967) | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gray morrow (signed, credited on back cover)
b+w interior illustration unsigned, uncredited
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Planet Of The Double Sun (1967) | professor jameson #1:
#1: ''the planet of the double sun'' (1967), (this book)
#2: ''the sunless world'' (1967), q.v.
#3: ''space war'' (1967), q.v.
#4: ''twin worlds'' (1967), q.v.
#5: ''doomsday on ajiat'' (1968), q.v.
quite a number of professor jameson stories published in the bedsheet pulps remained uncollected at the end of ace books mmpb series in 1968: at least seven novelettes, a short story and a poem
many of these spiffing adventures feature the dastardly^W friendly cyborg zoromes: but whether all do. . .
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ppint. 11th Feb 2024 | | BookNeil R. Jones - The Planet Of The Double Sun (1967) | ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by gray morrow (signed, credited)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed)
cover price 40¢
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookAndre Norton - Year Of The Unicorn (1969) | charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb second printing over-all
cover art by jack gaughan retained from first ace books printing,
b+w frontispiece, interior illustrations by him retained likewise
cover price 60¢
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Change Of Command (2000) | familias regnant #6:
#1: "hunting party" (1993), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Rules Of Engagement (2000) | familias regnant series #5:
#1: "hunting party" (1993), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Once A Hero (2000) | familias regnant series #4:
#1: "hunting party" (1993), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Winning Colors (1995) | familias regnant series #3:
#1: "hunting party" (1993), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Sporting Chance (1994) | familias regnant series #2:
#1: "hunting party" (1993) q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Hunting Party (1993) | familias regnant series #1:
a: central characters heris serrano, lady cecelia
#1: "hunting party" (1993) (this book)
#2: "sporting chance" (1994), q.v.
#3: "winning colo[u]rs" (1995), q.v.
b: central characters esmay suiza, barin serrano
#4: "once a hero" (1997), q.v.
#5: "rules of engagement" (1998), q.v.
c: central characters heris serrano, esmay suiza, barin serrano, lady cecelia
#6: "change of command" (1999), q.v.
#7: "against the odds" (2000), q.v.
omnibus of novels #1, #2 & #3:
"heris serrano" (2002), q.v.
aka "the serrano legacy" (uk 2006), q.v.
omnibus of novels #4 :
"the serrano connection" (2007), q.v.
omnibus of novels #6 & #7:
"the serrano succession" (2008), q.v.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookElizabeth Moon - Against The Odds (2001) | familias regnant #7:
#1: "hunting party" (1993), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (1991) | random century/random house uk arrow books legend imprint p/b first printing, second arrow books printing retaining arrow books arrow imprint isbn
cover art by mark salwowski (unsigned, uncredited, is on mark salwowski's website)
cover price £4.99 (check for overseas territories prices)
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (1984) | century hutchinson, or random century arrow books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited (possibly by john harris, judged by style & date, etc: smoking - not steaming - cooling tower)
cover price £2.50, $7.95 australia
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (1977) | namara group quartet books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by eddie jones (signed)
cover price £1.25 (check for overseas territories prices)
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
n.b. cover bears new distributor, futura publications ltd,'s sf & fantasy imprint logo on front cover, but was nevertheless published by quartet books, as stated on back cover, title page, indicia page, etc...
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (1974) | j. m. dent & sons first printing, first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art ''le colosse'' ou ''la panique'' attributed to goya (also known as la tempête)
cover (d-j) price £2.95
464pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Stand On Zanzibar (1974) | random house group ballantine books imprint mmpb fifth printing over-all
cover art by steele savage
cover price $1.75
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Stand On Zanzibar (1969) | macdonald & co. publishers first printing, first uk h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited line drawing ''keyholed'' onto the shaded red fill of the standard design letters sf, purple field
cover (d-j) price 42/-
508pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Stand On Zanzibar (1978) | london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books p/b second printing, with new isbn, new
cover art unsigned, uncredited; by tim white iirc
cover price £1.75, $5.85 australia, $5.50 new zealand
576pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Stand On Zanzibar (1971) | hutchinson & co. arrow books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art unsigned sfaics, uncredited; i think it's by chris yates, but this is not "an attribution°
cover price 10s 50p, R1.20 south africa, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand
576pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
° - the full artwork may well bear his c.y., but is almost certainly long since junked by antony cheetham's conrad
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ppint. 10th Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - Stand On Zanzibar (1978) | random house group ballantine books mmpb seventh printing, with new cat#, isbn, retains
cover art by murray tinkelman
cover price $1.95
666pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, possibly plus end pp.
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