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
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
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
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
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. . .
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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