ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookA. E. Van Vogt - The Proxy Intelligence And Other Mindbenders (1971) | contents:
the proxy intelligence (novella) if vol.18 #10, 10/1968
the problem professor (novelette) , thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxiv #3, 8/1949; thrilling wonder stories bre 12/1949; both: as ''project spaceship''
rebirth: earth (ntte) astounding vol. xxx #4, 12/1942 as ''the flight that failed'' by e. mayne hull
the gryb (ntte) astounding vol. xxv #2, 4/1940 as ''repetition'' (a rull series story)
the invisibility gambit (ntte) astounding vol. xxxiv #2, 4/1943 as ''abdication'' by e. mayne hull (an artur blord series story)
the star-saint (ntte) planet stories vol.4 #11, 3/1951
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings (1981) | warner books mmpb second printing, accounted fourth printing as the earlier paperback library mmpb printings are included in the accounting
cover art by FmA (?FmΔ?) (signed, retained from previous warner books printing; in new cover design)
cover price $2.25
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
check indicia publishing history printing details: i do not know of a canadian-carcassed variant of this printing, but it's possible one exists.
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings (1975) | warner books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, accounted the third printings as warner books included the two previous paperback library mmpb printings in the accounting
cover art by ''FmA'' (?FmΔ?) (signed, uncredited; not sfaik as-yet further identified)
cover price $1.25
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, 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 state third printing: september 1975
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookEdmond Hamilton - The Star Kings (1970) | coronet communications/warner group paperback library mmpb second printing with new
cover art (unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed)
cover price 75¢
192pp. including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookFelix Mendelsohn Jr. - Superbaby (1970) | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookHughes Cooper - Sexmax (1970) | new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (re-used from paperback library mmpb first edition)
cover price 6/- 30p, pts 75 spain, $1.00 australia, 85c new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
chosen by-line of george hughes cooper, jr; later changed his name to george hill leonard
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookHughes Cooper - Sexmax (1969) | coronet communications paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; credit from science fiction monthly vol.1 #3, 3/1974 where tyopped c. foster)
cover price 75¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City (1965) | ballantine books mmpb first printing(s) sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition°
cover art by robert (bob) foster (signed bfoster, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
320pp. (check) including (i)-viii pp. titles, indicia, nf introduction by edward lasker, nf foreword by the author, etc; 5 end pp. including author's note, and ''the pieces'' (annotated dramatis personae) by john brunner, end p. advertising iirc (check)
° - apparently simultaneous from its indicia, the near-identical first canadian-carcassed printing is in later printings identified as having been printed 2/1966: distinguish by reference to the indicia publishing history where it is stated printed in canada, referring to the carcase
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ppint. 3rd Feb 2024 | | BookDavid Gerrold - Alternities (1974) | dell mmpb likely simultaneous first printings, first edition
original anthology of fifteen short stories and a novelette, nf introduction by david gerrold
dedication:
for judy-lynn and lester del rey, about whom i care very much, and this is just my way of saying so
cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; attributed on sciencefictionruminations.com/2012/02/27/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-the-art-of-robert-foster)
cover price 95¢
176pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
indicia publishing history states the book was printed in the u.s. unqualifiedly
stephen goldin is credited as associate editor only
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City (1977) | wm collins sons fontana books imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by peter goodfellow (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 80p, $2.25 australia, $2.40 australia, $1.95 canada
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City (1969) | penguin books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover (for ''cover design''))
cover price 6/- 30p, R0.75 south africa, $1.00 australia, $0.85 new zealand
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including author's note (nf) & ''the pieces'' (annotated dramatis personae) (nf) john brunner; advertising
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Traps Of Time (1979) | ''author'' field should^W has been varied to ''editor''
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Traps Of Time (1979) | penguin books p/b second printing with new:
cover art by adrian chesterman (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 85p, $2.75 australia (recommended), $1.95 canada
isbn given on spine & back cover in two rows as isbn 0-14/00.2868-4 (i s'spect no-one now knows why penguin used the '.' between the 00 & original, and certainly not in any totally _new_, 00.wxyz-(checksum digit cat#s))
208pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
(end p. advertising may (very likely does) differ from that in first printing)
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - Starchild (1970) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookRay Bradbury - The Day It Rained Forever (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookRay Bradbury - The Day It Rained Forever (1969) | penguin books p/b fourth printing with new
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 25p 5/-, R0.60 south africa, $0.85 australia, $0.75 new zealand
236pp? (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookPhilip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth (1970) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookPhilip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth (1970) | penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by franco grignani
cover price 6/- 30p, (check & enter overseas territories prices)
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp advertising
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookPhilip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth (1967) | jonathan cape first printing, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by bill botten
cover (d-j) price 25/-
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - Starchild (1970) | penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 5/- 25p, R0.60 south africa, $0.85 australia, $0.75 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - Starchild (1966) | dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition
cover (d-j) art by richard weaver
cover (d-j) price 18/-
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookPhilip K. Dick - Time Out Of Joint (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookMichael Moorcock - The Traps Of Time (1970) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookHarry Harrison - Bill, The Galactic Hero (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - Search The Sky (1970) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFrederik Pohl - The Reefs Of Space (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFritz Leiber - Conjure Wife (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookFred Saberhagen - Berserker (1970) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | | BookEdgar Pangborn - Davy (1969) | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
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