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ppint. 5th Jan 2024		Book Larry Niven - The Ringworld Throne (1996)	random house group ballantine books del rey imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by barclay shaw cover (d-j) price $23.00 ($32.00 canada) 428pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 3rd Jan 2024		Book Harry Harrison - The Best Of Harry Harrison (1976)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first h/cvr edition, possibly simultaneous first uk edition reprint collection of nineteen short stories and two novelettes cover (d-j) art unsigned, shared with futura publications p/b edition cover art cover (d-j) price £4.95 320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 3rd Jan 2024		Book Harry Harrison - The Best Of Harry Harrison (1976)	futura publications ltd. p/b first printing, first uk edition or simultaneous first uk edition reprint collection of nineteen short stories and two novelettes cover art unsigned, uncredited (shared with sidgwick & jackson h/cvr d-j art) cover price 80p, (fish out & check for overseas territories prices) 320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p.
ppint. 3rd Jan 2024		Book Harry Harrison - The Best Of Harry Harrison (1976)	simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of eighteen short stories and two novelettes, introduction by barry n. malzberg harry harrison provided a brief introductory note to each included story cover art by ed soyka (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price $1.95 320pp. including unpaginated titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. n.b. uk editions (futura publications orbit p/b and sidgwick & jackson h/cvr) contents differ slightly, dropping malzberg's introduction and ''not me, not amos cabot!'' and replacing these with ''the wicked flee'' & ''we ate the whole thing''
ppint. 1st Jan 2024		Book John Brunner - Timescoop (1984)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art by david a. cherry (?unsigned?, credited) cover price (canada $2.95) • u.s. $2.50 near-meaningless daw books collector no.599 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed canadian-carcassed copies drop the digit ''1'' from the full first printing number line, formally identifying them as the second printing, though no priority established in date of publication
ppint. 1st Jan 2024		Book John Brunner - Timescoop (1981)	bantam doubleday dell group dell mmpb near-identical second printings° sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by walter velez (signed ©walter velez 1980, uncredited) cover price $2.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.25 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish between variants (° stated new dell edition) no priority established nor liable to be, both state previous dell edition: one printing new dell edition \| first printing---january 1981
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book John Brunner - Timescoop (1972)	unbound signatures of this printing collected together with like of ''the profit of doom'' hugh dirac (1970), q.v. and ''quest for the future'' a. e. van vogt (1970), q.v. and published in the anonymously-edited sidgwick & jackson h/cvr omnibus ''s f special 8'' (1973), q.v.
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book John Brunner - Timescoop (1972)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by john plumb cover (d-j) price £1.50 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Jack Dann - Junction (1981)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 71009 00250 14416
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Jack Dann - Junction (1981)	fix-up that incorporates: junction (novella) fantastic vol.23 #1, 11/1973, a b+w illustration by michael nally and the islands of time (novella) fantastic vol.26 #3, 9/1977, the cover story; plus a b+w illustration, both by steven fabian
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Fletcher Pratt - Land Of Unreason (1979)	there would appear to be two varieties of the cover printing, one with white and one with yellow spine
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Fletcher Pratt - Land Of Unreason (1979)	bantam doubleday dell group dell imprint mmpb first printing(?s?), not first mmpb edition cover art by esteban maroto (unsigned, credited) b+w interior illustrations by ed cartier (from unknown vol. v #3, 12/1941) cover price $1.75 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World (1977)	pan macmillan pan books p/b nth printing over-all (check indicia publishing history) cover art unsigned cover price 70p, $1.95 australia, $2.10 new zealand, $1.95 canada 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. month of publication not given; taken from locus 203, 8/1977
ppint. 31st Dec 2023		Book Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World (1949)	pan books p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2'- net in u.k. (front cover; may also exist with only australian cover price, or none) 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book J. G. Ballard - The Drowned World (1963)	victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art none, typographical cover in black and magenta on classic ''gollancz yellow'' field with black zigzags cover (d-j) price 15/- 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second printing, 2/1963, which gives month of publication of first printing
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book J. G. Ballard - Karneval der Alligatoren (1972)	heyne bücher p/b first printing, first german language general p/b edition translation originally published by marion von schröder in tp/b (1970), q.v. cover art by karel (c. a. m.) thole (unsigned, credited) cover price (unprinted, list price dm 2.80) 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book J. G. Ballard - The Drowned World (2001)	orion publishing group gollancz imprint b-format p/b first printing, third printing over-all of the orion publishing group b-format p/b setting previously a millennium imprint p/b sf masterworks series 17 cover art by chris moore retained, still misattributed to jim burns in the indicia credits cover price £6.99 176/184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising stated third impression in indicia publishing history
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book J. G. Ballard - The Drowned World (1999)	orion publishing group millennium imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition sf masterworks series 17 cover art by chris moore (unsigned, wrongly credited to jim burns but reproduced on moore's website) cover price £6.99 176/184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical millennium imprint b-format p/b second printing, 2000, noted as second impression cover art by chris moore retained, still misattributed in indicia credits cover price £6.99 the near-identical third orion publishing group printing on the same isbn, 2001, is a gollancz imprint p/b
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book Wenzell Brown - Devil's Spawn (1952)	permabook books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by julian paul (signed paul) cover price 35¢ (39¢ canada) 384pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book Wenzell Brown - They Called Her Charity (1951)	appleton century h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 296pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound between covered boards
ppint. 30th Dec 2023		Book Wenzell Brown - Devil's Spawn (1952)	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1951
ppint. 29th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1977)	the berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by paul lehr (unsigned, uncredited, shared from the putnam h/cvr first edition d-j where signed) cover price $1.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising the berkley medallion mmpb was reprinted, but i don't know how many times, nor when, as i'd no reason to import copies for single step co-operative (- having seen the uk p/b edition into print).
ppint. 29th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1976)	berkley publishing group berkley putnam h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by paul lehr (signed lehr, uncredited) cover (d-j) price $6.95 192pp.(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards sbn on d-j front flap: 399-11729-6 publication month date taken from d-j front flap: 7605 distinguish from near-identical merkin science fiction book club edition which differs: sfbc cat# on d-j back flap 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc., end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards printer's gutter code G14 dates the printing to april 1976; the sfbc's publication date a month later priority goes to the originating publisher's trade edition.
ppint. 27th Dec 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - Beyond The End Of Time (1952)	contents: introduction (nf) frederik pohl the embassy (short story) donald a. wollheim, astounding vol. xxix #1, 3/1942 as by martin pearson the hunted (ss) john d. macdonald, super science stories vol.5 #3, 7/1949 heredity (novelette) isaac asimov, astonishing stories vol.2 #4, 4/1941 rock diver (ss) harrty harrison, worlds beyond vol.1 #3, 2/1941 the little black bag (ntte) c. m. kornbluth, astounding vol. xxxxv #7, 7/1950, four b+w illustrations by ed cartier the lonely planet (ntte) murray leinster, thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxv #5, 12/1949 operation peep (ss) john wyndham, suspense summer/1951, revised as ''pawley's peepholes'' science fantasy #3, winter 1951 let the ants try (ss) frederik pohl, planet stories vol. iv #5, winter (11)/1949 as by james mccreigh there will come soft rains (ss) ray bradbury, colliers 6th may 1950 (a martian chronicles story); argosy uk 8/1950 scanners live in vain (ntte) cordwainer smith, fantasy book vol.1 #6, 1/1950 (instrumentality of mankind story) such interesting neighbours (ss) jack finney, colljers 6th january 1951 bridge crossing (ss) dave dryfoos, galaxy vol.2 #2, 5/1951 letter from the stars (ss) a. e. van vogt, the arkham sampler fall/1949 as ''dear pen pal''; out of this world adventures vol. 1 #1, 7/1950 as ''letter from the stars'' love in the dark (ss) h. l. gold, suspense vol.1 #3, fall/1951 as ''love ethereal'' obviously suicide (ss) s. fowler wright, suspense vol.1 #1, spring/1951 rescue party (ntte) arthur c. clarke, astounding vol. xxxvii #3, 5/1946; atlas bre vol. 5 #6, 9/1946 stepson of space (ss) raymond z. gallun, astonishing stories vol.2 #1, 10/1940 death is the penalty (ss) judith merril, astounding vol. xxxxii #5, 1/1949, a b+w illustration by ed cartier beyond doubt (ss) robert a. heinlein as by lyle monroe, elma wentz, astonishing stories vol.2 #4, 4/1941, a b+w illustration by hannes bok
ppint. 26th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1977)	the readers union group first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition for sale only to members of the science fiction book club and to other readers union group clubs cover (d-j) art copying or a direct re-use of david (a.) hardy's cover art for the sidgwick & jackson d-j cover (d-j) price (none printed) 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound (perfectbound?) with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 26th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1977)	sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by david (a.) hardy (signed hardy) cover (d-j) price £3.50 by publisher's price gun label on d-j front flap 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 25th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1986)	hamlyn publishing group/octopus group methuen london p/b first printing, second abp/methuen p/b printing over-all, with new isbn, new cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £2.50 (no overseas territories prices?) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 25th Dec 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Shakespeare's Planet (1978)	abp group / eyre methuen magum books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by chris moore (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 75p, $2.35 australia, $2.35 new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Dec 2023		Book Various Authors - The Illustrated New Musical Express Encyclopaedia Of Rock (1977)	publisher should^W has been emended to. ''salamander'' to unify the bookcat listing of this publisher
ppint. 25th Dec 2023		Book Marshall Craigmyle - An Illustrated Guide To Perennials (2000)	salamander books ltd. 8 blenheim court brewery road london n7 9ny a member of the chrysalis group plc

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