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ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Unto Zeor, Forever (1980)	sime~gen main series #3: #01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Zelerod's Doom (1986)	sime~gen main series #2: #01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Zelerod's Doom (1986)	daw books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by walter velez (may be signed on back cover, credited) cover price ($4.95 canada) • $3.50 u.s. near-meaningless daw books collector no.682 288pp.(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - House Of Zeor (1977)	sime~gen main series #1: #01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jean Lorrah - Ambrov Keon (1986)	sime~gen prequel series #03: #01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Channel's Destiny (1983)	sime~gen prequel series #02: #01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Sydney J. Bounds - The Robot Brains (1957)	cat# is wrong and should^W has been deleted this is the brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b first printing published ~1957 it bears no cat# the attributed cat# R521 is that of the second printing, and not correctly given to this first printing. brown, watson ltd. habitually allocated new cat#s to each new printing; the letter indicates the cover price, (none = 1'6 but these likely bear no cat# at all, just as some - the earliest - of the 2/- don't) digit books numbering started in 4/1958 with cat# D139 (source aligemkr-books.blogspot.com) digit books cat# price code letters: D = 2/-, R = 2'6
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1961)	serialised as ''green destiny'' in new worlds #57, #58, #59; 3/1957, 4/1957, 5/1957, each part with a (different) b+w illustration by brian lewis
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1980)	hearst corporation avon books avon imprint mmpb first printing, not first merkin p/b edition, not first avon books edition cover art by clyde caldwell (signed with his fancified c symbol, uncredited) cover price $1.95 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1975)	hearst corporation avon books equinox imprint b-format p/b first printing, not first merkin p/b edition sf rediscovery series #15 cover art by bill (william) maughan (unsigned, miscredited as ''bill maugham'') cat# 26187 (26625 canada) cover price $1.95 ($2.25 canada) 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1969)	robert hale first printing, first uk h/cvr edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by eileen walton cover (d-j) price 21/- 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1963)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b undated° second printing with new cat#, new cover art by enrich torres-prat (signed henrySI, uncredited)† cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - entered year presumably taken from tuck † - artist's signature seen reported as being henry '57, but the cover art appears to've been painted for this novel, is not reported published anywhere in 1957, and henry/enric/enrich torres-prat worked for (? was represented by ?) the spanish arts agency, selecciones illustradas. . .
ppint. 15th Dec 2023		Book Kenneth Bulmer - City Under The Sea (1961)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b undated° first printing, first uk edition cover art by brian lewis (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - save for © by ace books inc., 1957; entered date presumably taken from tuck
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - RenSime (1984)	daw books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by jill bauman (unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.606 cover price ($3.50 canada) • u.s. $2.95 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. time-line chronology (nf-in-f) kate filipowicz, advertising kate filipowicz' sime~gen chronology includes the stories published to date, plus those planned but then not yet written; some of the latter have yet to appear, as of 12/2023
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Jean Lorrah - Ambrov Keon (1986)	daw books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by walter velez (unsigned°, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no.662 cover price ($3.95 canada) • $2.95 u.s. 256pp. (check) including 6pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - the full artwork may well be signed; walter velez generally did sign his cover art paintings
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1967)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1965)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1962)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1967)	contents: my word (nf introduction) h. l. gold (1962; original to this anthology sfaik) small lords (novelette) frederik pohl, science fiction quarterly vol.4 #6, 2/1957, a b+w illustration by (frank) kelly freas sentiment, inc. (ntte) poul anderson, (later the original) science fiction stories #1, (6/)1953 name your tiger (ntte) milton lesser, science fiction quarterly vol.5 #1, 5/1957, a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller iron man (short story) eando binder, future science fiction #28, 12/1955 (written by otto binder) the hunted ones (ntte) mack reynolds, the original science fiction stories vol.10 #5, 11/1959 hail to the chief (novella) sam sackett, future sf vol.5 #1, 6/1954, a b+w illustration by freas impractical joke (ntte) l. sprague de camp, future science fiction #29, 4/1956, a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1967)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes αnd a short story, nf introduction by h. l. gold cover art by josh kirby (unsigned°, uncredited; in drl's joshlist.html inter alia) cover price 3/6, 60c australia, 4/6 (45c) new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising ° - complete artwork liable to be signed kirby - if still extant, and discovered
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1965)	dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes and a novella, nf introduction by h. l. gold cover (d-j) art by christopher evans (unsigned, credited for cover design on d-j front flap) cover (d-j): price 15/- 174pp. (check) including pp. (i-vii) titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - The Weird Ones (1962)	belmont productions belmont books mmpb 2/1962 first printing, first edition reprint anthology of a short story, five novelettes and a novella, with introduction by h. l. gold cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, uncredited; confirmed by the artist's son) cover price 50¢ 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - Time Untamed (1973)	contents: sally (short story) isaac asimov, fantastic vol.2 #3, 5-6/1953 ''you'll never go home again!'' (ss) clifford simak, fantastic adventures vol. 13 #7, 7/1951 aka ''beachhead'' the eye of tandyla (novelette) l. sprague de camp, fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1951 tomorrow and tomorrow (ss) ray bradbury, fantastic adventures vol. 9 #3, 5/1947 the hungry eye (ntte) robert bloch, fantastic vol.8 #5, 5/1959 the dark room (ntte) theodore sturgeon, fantastic vol.2 #4, 7-8/1953 the eternal eve (ntte) john wyndham, amazing vol.24 #9, 9/1950, amazing bre #4, 11/1950 i'm looking for ''jeff'' (ss) fritz leiber, fantastic vol.1 #2, fall/1952
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Unto Zeor, Forever (1985)	berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited as richard van dongen; retained from playboy mmpbs) cover price $2.95 320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (?nf-in-f,) advertising
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Unto Zeor, Forever (1981)	playboy press playboy paperbacks imprint mmpb stated second printing (account includes the playboy press paperbacks imprint mmpb first p/b edition) with new cat#, isbn but retaining cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, still credited to richard van dongen) cover price $2.50 320pp. (check) including titles, author's note, dramatis personae, vocabulary etc.
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Unto Zeor, Forever (1980)	playboy press paperbacks imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, credited as richard van dongen) cover price $2.25 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, author's note, dramatis personae, vocabulary etc.
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Channel's Destiny (1983)	daw books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by don maitz near-meaningless daw books collector no.556 cover price ($3.50 canada) • $2.95 u.s. 208pp. (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 temporal priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, december 1983 canadian-carcassed copies drop ''1'' from the printing number line, formally identifying them as the second printing
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - First Channel (1981)	sime~gen series: the prequel trilogy: #01: ''first channel'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1980), (this novel) #02: ''channel's destiny'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1982), q.v. #03: ''ambrov keon'' jean lorrah (1986), q.v. the main series: novels: #1: ''house of zeor'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1974), q.v. #2: ''zelerod's doom'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1986), q.v. #3: ''unto zeor, forever'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1978), q.v. #4: ''mahogany trinose'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1981), q.v. #5: ''rensime'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1984), q.v. omnibus editions: omnibus of #1, #03, #2: #O1: ''sime~gen: the unity trilogy'' #1 jacqueline lichtenberg, #03 jean lorrah, #2 by both (2003), q.v. announced but unpublished omnibus editions: to have been of #6, #5, & ''best of fools'' (novelette), which appeared in #C: scheduled for publication in 2005 but did not appear; #O2: ''sime~gen: to kiss or to kill'' to have been of #3, #4, #5: #O3: ''digen farris ambrov zeor'' (title may've been provisional) (not known to've been scheduled) meisha merlin, the publisher, ceased trading completely in 2007 there was then a brief hiatus in the publishing - and perhaps in the authors' writing - schedule(s): #6: ''personal recognizance'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v. #7: ''to kiss or to kill'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v. #8: ''the farris channel'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v. #6 published in a ''double'' with: #C: ''the story untold: and other sime-gen stories'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v. original anthology: #A: ''fear and courage: fourteen writers explore sime-gen'' eds. zoe farris, karen l. macleod (2015), q.v. there are two more later titles which seem to be sime~gen-related, but which yr hmbl srppnt.'s never seen - and about which, knows next-to-nothing: clear springs chronicles trilogy: CS#1: ''a change of tactics'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2017), q.v. CS#2: ''a shift of means'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2019), q.v. CS#3: (naught yet known) possibly as-yet uncollected sime~gen stories°: by jacqueline lichtenberg: ''operation high time'' (novelette) if vol.19 #1, 1/1969 ''the channel's exemption'' (novelette) galileo #4, 7/1977, with illustration by stephen fabian ° - i don't - yet - know the contents of ''fear and courage'', the anthology published in 2015
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Jacqueline Lichtenberg - First Channel (1981)	playboy press playboy paperbacks imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by paul alexander (signed alexander) cover price $2.50 372pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Dec 2023		Book Ivan Howard - Time Untamed (1972)	author should^W has been varied to editor

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