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ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Keith Laumer - Retief: Emissary To The Stars (1975)	dell publishing mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition ~ half original, half reprint anthology of three novelettes, a short story and a novel excerpt cover art by robert (bob):foster (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/02/bob-foster-gentleman-with-personal-high.html) cover price 95¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. 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---december 1975
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Son Of Tarzan (1972)	flamingo books first printing cover art unsigned, uncredited (looks like it was adapted - shot up - directly from a comic frame) cover price 30p, 95c australia, 90c new zealand 224pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Mack Reynolds - The Fracas Factor (1983)	joe mauser series #3 #1: "mercenary from tomorrow" (1968), q.v. #2: "the earth war" (1963), q.v., aka and serialised as "frigid fracas", q.v. #3: "the fracas factor" (1978) (this novel) #4: "time gladiator" (1966), q.v., aka and serialised as "sweet dreams, sweet princess", q.v. #1 & #2 revised, rewritten after mack reynold's death ("posthumous collaboration") as "joe mauser, mercenary from tomorrow" mack reynolds, michael a. banks (1986), q.v.
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Dave Van Arnam - Greyland (1978)	nordon publications leisure books mmpb undated first printing, seems to've been initially intended as belmont tower imprint second printing cover art by attila hejja (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.50 isbn 0-8439-0553-0 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising no date for this printing given in the indicia publishing history: it's taken from locus #212, 7/1978 where announced as a belmont tower mmpb
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Gregory Kern - Het Slavenschip Van Sergan (1975)	ridderhof p/b first printing, first dutch language edition cover art by o'brien (signed, uncredited; re-used from ''the warriors of terra'' john m. faucette (belmont 1970), q.v. not as-yet sfaiaa further identified) cover price f4,90 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Dave Van Arnam - Greyland (1972)	cover art also used on ''het slavenschip van sergan'' ''gregory kern'' (pseudonym of e. c. (ted) tubb's, later became a kind of house name) (ridderhof 1975), q.v., the dutch translation of the second cap kennedy series novel, where the signature is clear.
ppint. 7th Feb 2024		Book Dave Van Arnam - Greyland (1972)	belmont tower mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by o'brien (signed low right-hand corner, guillotined off some copies, uncredited; not as yet further identified sfaik; re-used from ''the warriors of terra'' john m. faucette (1970), q.v.) cover price 95¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Leo P. Kelley - Mythmaster (1974)	hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by colin hay (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from use (retitled ''military operations centre'') in ''worlds at war'', steven caldwell (pseudonym of stewart cowley) (1980), q.v.) cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.00 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Leo P. Kelley - Mythmaster (1973)	dell publishing mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed foster, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. 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---june 1973
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Harlan Ellison - Over The Edge (1972)	belmont tower mmpb first printing, second printing of suitably emended belmont mmpb first edition typesetting cover art by robert (bob) foster cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Harlan Ellison - Over The Edge (1970)	belmont publications mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (signed l & d dillon, credited as leo and diane dillon) cover price 75¢ 192pp. pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book William F. Nolan - A Wilderness Of Stars (1972)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, collected in ''ultraterranium'' bruce pennington, nigel suckling (1991/2), q.v.) cover price 30p, 95c australia, 90c new zealand 224pp..(check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book William F. Nolan - A Wilderness Of Stars (1970)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition reprint anthology of six short stories, three novelettes and a novella, with nf introduction by shelly lowenkampf, nf postscript by the editor cover (d-j) art none; typographical in magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field cover (d-j) price 32/- 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Jack Beeching - The Dakota Project (1971)	very near future novel of a society drifting ever-more-quickly into oppressive bureaucratic control, not least because of overpopulation; when written & published was borderline sf i suppose. . . - but seems to've only been published as straight/literary fiction
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Jack Beeching - The Dakota Project (1971)	dell mmpb first printing, not first p/b edition, not first merkin edition credits a delacourt h/cvr (1969), q.v. cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, not visible from front, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 288pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Jack Beeching - The Dakota Project (1970)	tbl (thomson books ltd.) sphere books first printing, first p/b edition cover art (unsigned, uncredited photographic of two hands appearing out of an opened tin can) cover price 5/- (25p), 6/00s east africa, 60c south africa, 80c australia, 75c new zealand 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. territories' agents world-wide for sphere books
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Jack Beeching - The Dakota Project (1968)	jonathan cape h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (restricted palette representation of two part-opened sardine/pilchard cans, keys visible) cover (d-j) price 25/- 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - Behold The Man (1976)	the hearst corporation avon books equinox rediscovery series b-format p/b first printing, not first merkin p/b edition cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed, credited as bob foster) (retained from 1970 avon mmpb cover) cat# 28589 canada cover price $2.45 canada cover price $2.25 usa 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - Turn Left At Thursday (1969)	contents: mars by moonlight (novelette) galaxy vol.16 #3, 6/1958; strato bre #65; both as by ''paul flehr'', three b+w illustrations by wallace wood the richest man in levittown (short story) galaxy vol.17 #4, 4/1959; galaxy strato bre #73; both, as ''the bitterest pill'' the seven deadly virtues (ntte) galaxy vol.16 #4, 8/1958; galaxy strato bre #67; both, as by ''paul flehr'' the martian in the attic (ss) if vol.10 #3, 7/1960; galaxy t&p strato bre #5; both, a b+w illustration by gray morrow third offense (ss) galaxy vol.16 #4, 8/1958, as by ''charles satterfield'' the hated (ss) galaxy vol.15 #3, 1/1958 i plinglot, who you? (ntte) galaxy vol.17'#3, 2/1959; galaxy strato bre #72; both, as ''i plinglot --- who you?'', with three b+w illustrations by wallace wood
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - The Abominable Earthman (1969)	contents: the abominable earthman (novelette) galaxy vol.20 #1, 10/1961; galaxy thorpe & porter bre #88 (~ near identical) we never mention aunt nora (short story) galaxy vol.16 #3, 7/1958 a life and a half (ss) if vol.8 #6, 7/1959, as by ''paul flehr'' punch (ss) playboy 6/1961 the martian star-gazers (ss) galaxy vol.20 #3, 2/1962; the cover story, art & five b+w illustrations by jack gaughan whatever counts (novella) galaxy vol.17 #5, 6/1959; galaxy strato bre #74; both: the cover story, art by ed emshwiller, four b+w illustrations by wallace wood three portraits and a prayer (ss) galaxy vol.20 #6, 8/1962; galaxy thorpe & porter bre #92 (~ identical)
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - The Abominable Earthman (1969)	may state ''an intext publisher'' on title page and/or in indicia.
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - Demon In The Skull (1985)	pearson group penguin p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by david o'connor (unsigned, credited) cover price £1.95, $4.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand 176pp. including titles, indicia° etc, end pp. advertising ° - the copyright date for this revised edition is given as 1985, not 1984: i don't believe that the text of the revised novel will have differed from that of the 1984 daw books mmpb edition
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Richard S. Prather - Lie Down, Killer (1964)	later published with different cover art from the lion books mmpb as a gold medal book by frederick miller!
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (1973)	''a plague of pythons'' was revised by frederik pohl; the revised version was published as ''demon in the skull'' (1984), q.v.
ppint. 6th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (1973)	penguin books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by david pelham (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 30p, $1.00 australia, $1.00 new zealand, $1.25 canada 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 5th Feb 2024		Book Stephen Rose - The Shattered Ring (1970)	contents: science fiction --- what is it? the tortured journey of h. g. wells humanum: what manner of men are we? nature: dynamism and change history: consciousness and the fullness of time the shattered ring: science fiction and the quest for meaning notes
ppint. 5th Feb 2024		Book Stephen Rose - The Shattered Ring (1970)	scm press ltd. trade p/b first printing, first uk, possibly simultaneous first°, edition 56 bloomsbury street, london wc1b 3qx dedication: for jim mason and jack brennan --- wanderers and wise men cover art melvyn gill (unsigned, credited on back cover for cover design) cover price 18s/90p net 128pp. including titles, indicia, preface (nf) stephen rose (epiphany 1970), table-of-contents etc, 5 end pp: 3pp. notes, 1st & 5th blank ° originated by john knox books, a merkin protestant press in richmond.
ppint. 5th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (1969)	intext (iirc) ballantine books mmpb third printing° with new cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned sfaics, credited) cover price 75¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - the canadian-carcassed first printing seems to've been retrospectawigglily accounted the second printing in this accounting - unless a wholly merkin-printed second printing comes to light...
ppint. 5th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (1967)	j. m. dent/readers union the science fiction book club first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by terry james cover (d-j) price 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 5th Feb 2024		Book Frederik Pohl - A Plague Of Pythons (1966)	victor gollancz first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art none, black and magenta typography on classic ''gollancz yellow'' field cover (d-j) price 16/- 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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