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ppint. 2nd Feb 2024		Book John Brunner - The Productions Of Time (1970)	one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
ppint. 2nd Feb 2024		Book Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1969)	one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
ppint. 2nd Feb 2024		Book Avram Davidson - Rork! (1969)	one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
ppint. 2nd Feb 2024		Book Edgar Pangborn - The Judgement Of Eve (1970)	one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham.
ppint. 1st Feb 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Argonaut Affair (1989)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 9 780 747 233114 00299
ppint. 1st Feb 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Hellfire Rebellion (1990)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 72742 00350 2 81262
ppint. 1st Feb 2024		Book Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword At Sunset (1963)	hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by brian o'hanlon (credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 21s net in uk 480pp. including xii pp. titles, indicia, quoted poem, author's note, table-of-contents (chapter titles), glossary; bound with two colour & black-printed map front & back endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, title, author & logo blocked in gold on spine, title upon round-cornered red rectangle
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Welcome, Chaos (1987)	century hutchinson/random century arrow books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by tim white cover price £2.95 (any overseas territories prices?) 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Welcome, Chaos (1986)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art none, two spot colours typographical titles on ''gollancz yellow'' field cover (d-j) price £9.95 302pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time (1981)	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb timescape imprint first printing, accounted pocket books mmpb second printing° cover art by gerry daly (signed) (retained from near-identical pocket books simultaneous first printings) cover price $2.75 296pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia publishing history printing number line drops the digit ''1''
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time (1980)	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first p/b edition cover art by gerry daly (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.75 probably canadadian-printed carcases, but stated merkin-printed, prob'ly merkin-printed covers, intended for distribution north of the parallel° cover price $2.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution° 296pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - both bear full indicia publishing history first printing number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Fault Lines (1981)	simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint/series mmpb first printing, accounted pocket books mmpb second printing° cover art by carl lundgren (signed in line-drawn box) cover price $2.25 176 or 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - indicia publishing history printing number line drops the digit ''1''
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - Fault Lines (1978)	simon & schuster pocket books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by walter rane (signed w. dane, uncredited) cover price $1.75 176 or 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising published as general, not category, fiction
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book John T. Robertson - Freedom Is The Spur (1955)	john spencer & co. badger books imprint undated digest format p/b cover art cover price 2/- 160pp. digest format signatures stapled through gutters, plus paper cover
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Six-gun Solution (1991)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 72742 00450 9 76851
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Dracula Caper (1988)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 72742 00350 2 16616
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Wizard Of Rue Morgue (1990)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 18926 00450 2 20704
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Simon Hawke - The Wizard Of Sunset Strip (1989)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 18926 00395 1 20702
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clewiston Test (1977)	london weekend television/hutchinson publishing group hutchinson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by gillian hills (unsigned, credited on back flap) cover (d-j) price £3.75 244pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 31st Jan 2024		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clewiston Test (1982)	simon & schuster pocket books timescape imprint undated° mmpb first printing, accounted second pocket books mmpb printing, preceded by and printing history accounting including simon & schuster pocket books non-timescape imprint, non-sf category pocket books 1977 mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by carl lundgren (signed, uncredited) cover price $2.50 224pp. (check) including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - publication date taken from locus #253, 2/1982
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book Arthur Ransome - Secret Water (1939)	first published november 1939 second impression november 1939 third impression november 1939 fourth impression november 1939 fifth impression october 1941 sixth impression april 1942 seventh impression september 1942 eighth impression october 1943 ... ... ... ... ''secret water'' was quite evidently extremely popular ''from the gecko''°, but n.b. i've not checked how early in ww2 paper rationing began to affect the size of publishers' print-runs. ° - a beautiful malapropism quite irresistible, given how well the amazons provided for timothy'advent in anticipation of his arrival, in the light of captain flint's warning...
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book Arthur Ransome - Secret Water (1939)	jonathan cape & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition dedication: to the busk family cover (d-j) art (my copy has long since lost its d-j) endpapers map unsigned, uncredited 42 b+w interior illustrations; some small, some full-page including maps (? arthur ransome?) cover (d-j) price 384pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, b+w frontispiece, table-of-contents, table of illustrations etc, 4 blank end pp, bound with colour-printed map front & rear endpapers between dark green-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, decoration, author & publishers logo blocked in gold on spine, title blocked in gold on front cloth° (° - this latter front cloth gold blocking dropped from some or all later impressions, title still impressed)
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East (1956)	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 first published by george harrap & co. ltd., london 1942, q.v.
ppint. 30th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East (1942)	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 this first printing in h/cvr by george harrap & co. ltd., london in 1942 is ttbomk the first edition. it would have been distributed by them within the british empire - quite possibly excluding canada - probably including the west indies, but certainly to gibraltar, malta, egypt, anglo-egyptian sudan, kenya, uganda, tanganyika, northern & southern rhodesia, nyasaland, south africa, aden, india, australia & new zealand by sea, and - at least in theory - also to british guyana, british honduras, st. helena, montserrat, the falkland islands, and south georgia; and further, to territories outwith north america (possibly including canada) and the british empire in competition with any copies of the licenced doubleday doran h/cvr edition to which that estimable merkin publishing company bothered to export such wares, insofar as these might be, or were unoccupied by forces of, the axis powers...
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Weird Of The White Wolf (1983)	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by robert gould in uniform, decorated broad silver margined design cover price $2.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - The Weird Of The White Wolf (1977)	contents: the dream of earl aubec (short story) fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1964 as ''master of chaos'', one b+w illustration by virgil finlay the dreaming city (novelette) science fantasy #47, 6/1961, the cover story, art by brian lewis while the gods laugh (ntte) science fantasy #49, 10-11/1961 the singing citadel (ntte) in ''the fantastic swordsmen'' ed. l. sprague de camp (1967), q.v.
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - Legends From The End Of Time (1979)	w. h. allen/howard & wyndham star imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w interior illustrations by jill riches cover price 95p, £M1 malta, $3.50 australia, $3.30 new zealand 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising it is possible there was a near-identical second printing the same year: refer to indicia publishing history to see if the copy held is the first or the putative second 1979 printing
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book Michael Moorcock - Legends From The End Of Time (1977)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition reprint collection of two novelettes and a novella cover art by bob pepper (signed, credited) interior b+w decorations (illustrations) by jill riches cover price $1.25 near-meaningless daw books collector no. 229 184pp. (check) 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 first daw printing, february, 1977/123456789
ppint. 29th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East (1942)	lancashire county library copy book no. 938296, not rebound. in the granada tv reference library c.1974 last borrowing date-stamped 23/jan/1996 originally lent ''subject to early recall'' which meant that the loan was for one week, rather than the usual two weeks, and could not be renewed (though the book could be reserved, and borrowed again, once those ahead in the reservation queue had borrowed and returned it). later provided on monthly loan, perhaps to branch libraries, mobile (travelling) libraries, etc. stamped withdrawn from lancashire libraries, but this not dated. d-j missing.
ppint. 28th Jan 2024		Book O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East (1942)	george g. harrap & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, 1942, first edition 182 high holborn, london w.c.1 composed in aldine bembo type and printed by morrison & gibb, ltd. london & edinburgh dedication: to mr churchill in admiration and in wonder that he ever sleeps book production war economy standard (with lion couchant at top of line-printed frame) this book is produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards 192pp. including titles, indicia etc., plus b+w photographic plates, bound with endpapers between green cloth-covered boards

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