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ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - Phoenix In Obsidian (1979)
wm collins sons/granada publishing (check) granada imprint p/b may still retain mentions of mayflower books as is printed from the same typesetting, suitably emended, fifth printing over-all if i've counted correctly

cover art by bob haberfield
cover price £1.25, $4.95 australia, $5.25 new zealand
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
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Michael Moorcock - The Silver Warriors (1985)
berkley publishing group berkley imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition

cover art by robert gould (unsigned, credited)
cover price ($3.50 canada) • $2.95 u.s.
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - Phoenix In Obsidian (1970)
granada publishing mayflower books imprint p/b first printing, first edition

cover art by bob haberfield (unsigned, uncredited; formerly on the artist's website)
cover price 5/- (25p), 80c australia, 80c new zealand, 95c canada
sbn 583118003
128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

the sbn of nine digits including checksum digit is arithmetically equivalent to the isbn of ten digits which was derived from it by prefixing with a ''0'' when the isbn system was developed from the sbn system, and is compatible with it.

there is no known reason to exclude sbns from the isbn10 field as the prepending of a ''0'' has no effect upon the calculation of the checksum digit, so the sbn is compatible with the isbn10.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - The Silver Warriors (1977)
aka and originally ''phoenix in obsidian'' (1970), q.v.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - The Silver Warriors (1977)
dell mmpb second edition, dell mmpb third printing over-all, with new cat# and new isbn

cover art by frank frazetta (signed, retained from first two dell mmpb printings)
cover price $1.50
224p. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to distinguish from near-identical 11/1978 dell mmpb second edition second printing, fourth dell mmpb printing over-all
indicia publishing history adds line stating
second printing---november 1978

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - The Silver Warriors (1973)
dell publishing co. dell imprint mmpb first printing, first merkin edition

cover art by frank frazetta (signed frazetta, uncredited)
cover price 95¢
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1974 second printing, which differs:

printing history adds line:
second printing---january 1974

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
Michael Moorcock - Phoenix In Obsidian (1970)
notes section: this book does not bear an ssn, and this should be deleted.
edit 22:30: instead ssn has been changed to sbn; but it is still incorrect and should still be deleted

edit 13/12/23: the figure in the notes: section has now been corrected to the sbn, but is not in bookcat's format for isbn13ses, isbn10ses or, presumably, sbnses, excluding spaces (and dashes).

the sbn has needlessly been removed from the isbn10 field, though it is compatible with the isbn10.

later printings by granada publishing / the granada group are liable to bear the isbn10 derived from the sbn by the prepending of a ''0'', which does not affect aught arithmetically.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Maximum Effort (1987)
the blaise cunningham trilogy #3:

#1: ''the cunningham equations'' (1986), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Black Magician (1986)
the blaise cunningham trilogy #2:

#1: ''the cunningham equations'' (1986), q.v. for series listing, and links.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Maximum Effort (1987)
random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, or i just haven't spotted it, credited)
cover price $4.75 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $3.50 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
394pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer also 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 edition: november 1987

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Black Magician (1986)
random house group ballantine books mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition

cover art by barclay shaw (unsigned, credited)
cover price $3.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
394pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

see also indicia printing history to determine if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first edition, first edition: november 1986

refer also to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 11/1987 reprinting
cover price $2.95
stated second printing

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10th Dec 2023
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G. C. Edmondson - The Cunningham Equations (1986)
the blaise cunningham trilogy #1:

#1: ''the cunningham equation'' (1986), (this book)
#2: ''the black magician'' (1986), q.v.
#3: ''maximum effort'' (1987), q.v.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Cunningham Equations (1986)
random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by barclay shaw (signed with his linked reversed-s/b symbol, credited)
cover price $3.95 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
cover price $2.95 wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer also 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 edition & first time in print

distinguish also thereby from the near-identical wholly merkin-printed 11/1987 third printing,
so-stated in indicia
retrospectively deeming one of the first edition printings (unspecified) to've been the second printing

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Takeover (1984)
near/very near future/minor variation on present-day fiction if drumpelstiltskin is re-elected, but though published as category science fiction, yr hmbl srppnt. only saw this as a hole-punched cut-out remainder in general fiction dumpbins, and doesn't recall having ever heard any sf reader(s) talking about it.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Takeover (1984)
berkley publishing group ace science fiction series mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by greg theakston (unsigned, credited)
cover price $2.75
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Man Who Corrupted Earth (1980)
grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by attila hejja (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.25
320pp. (check) including four unnumbered pages titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man (1982)
n.b. robert hale did not anglicize the title.

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10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man (1982)
robert hale first printing, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art by helen hale (family member) (unsigned, credited on d-j flap)
cover (d-j) price £6.75
176pp. (check) including four unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Aluminum Man (1975)
berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by richard powers signed powers laz/org, uncredited
cover price 95¢
176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Blue Face (1972)
originally published under the title, ''chapayeca'' in doubleday h/cvr (u.s.a. 1971), q.v.

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Blue Face (1972)
daw books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited; seen attributed to karel thole, but no reason given
cover price 95¢
near-meaningless daw books collector no.17
128pp. 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, canadian variant states first printing, august, 1972

ppint.
10th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think (1965)
mad friend #8, ''nobody believes an indian'' (short story) f&sf vol.38 #5, 5/1970,
and
mad friend #9(?), ''written on the water,'' (ss) iamsf vol.5 #9, 31/8/1981,

both omitted, for some strange reason...

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream (1978)
grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb at least third printing over-all, but declared first

cover art by steve (stephen) hickman (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.95
280pp. (check) including unnumbered titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books near-identical 8/1981 mmpb at least fourth printing over-all, but declared second by printing number line differs:

isbn 0-441-76097-X
cat# 76097
cover price $2.25

indicia publishing history states:
this ace printing august 1981

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream (1970)
ace books mmpb undated°, unknown ordinality of printing but at least the second printing†

cover art by frank kelly freas (unsigned, uncredited; was confirmed by his agent who possessed the signed painting)
cover price 75¢
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - entered date year of publication of this printing taken from locus #69, 8/12/1970

† - if the ace books five-digit system were being operated consistently, M-109 would've been deemed to've been a five-digit cat# ending in 0 or in 5, if there were stocks remaining when the system was introduced in 1970, and each subsequent printing would have incremented this number by one;
if there was zero stock of the first printing at the inception of the five-digit system, and it was no longer on the catalog/order form (was ''out of print''), the first reprinting would've been allocated a first printing cat#, and subsequent printings incremented this number by one each time.

the cat# of the next known printing is 76092; so 76094 could simply've been an error for 76091...‡

(‡ - but there is, however, (a small amount of) evidence suggesting the very first ace five-digit cat#s were allocated before the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system were fully worked out. . .)

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think (1965)
contents:
the ''mad friend'' series of short stories #1 through 7:
all first published in the magazine of fantasy & science-fiction:

the misfit (vol.17 #2, 2/1959), (atlas bre vol. i #1, 12/1959)
from caribou to carry-nation (vol.17 #5, 11/1959), (venture atlas bre #13, 9/1964)
the galactic calabash (vol.18 #1, 1/1960), (atlas bre vol. i #5, 4/1960)
the sign of the goose (vol.19 #2, 8/1960), (atlas bre vol. ii #1, 12/1960)
the country boy (vol.20 #5, 5/1961)
the world must never know (vol.24 #4, 4/1963)
the third bubble (f&sf vol.26 #6, 6/1964)

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - Stranger Than You Think (1965)
ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

reprint collection of a series of seven short stories, each with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan

cover art by jack gaughan (signed with jg digraph, easily guillotined off bottom in production, uncredited)
b+w frontispiece, seven interior illustrations also by jack gaughan, mostly signed with his digraph
cover price 45¢
½ (⅓!) 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia, illustrations etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream (1965)
ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by jack gaughan signed with his jg digraph, obscured by the author's first initial, uncredited)
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan
cover price 45¢
½ 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves


doubled with ''stranger than you think'' g. c. edmondson (1965), q.v.

ppint.
9th Dec 2023
Book
G. C. Edmondson - To Sail The Century Sea (1981)
Review
somewhat delayed sequel to ''the ship that sailed the time stream'' (1965), q.v.

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ppint.
9th Dec 2023
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G. C. Edmondson - To Sail The Century Sea (1981)
berkley publishing group° ace books p/b first printing, first edition

cover art by paul alexander (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''analog 8'' ed. hans joachim albers (moewig, germany 1984), q.v.)
cover price $2.25
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - check

ppint.
7th Dec 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - A Way Home (1955)
contents:

introduction (nf) theodore sturgeon
unite and conquer (novelette) astounding vol.xxxxii #2, 10/1948, four b+w illustrations by orban
special aptitude (short story) other worlds vol.3 #2, 3/1951, as ''last laugh'' by ted sturgeon
mewhu's jet (ntte) astounding vol.xxxviii #3, 11/1946, four b+w illustrations by swenson
hurricane trio (ntte) galaxy vol.10 #1, 4/1955, three b+w illustrations by william (bill) ashman
...and my fear is great... (novella) beyond vol.1 #1, 7/1953, six b+w illustrations by ashman; beyond strato bre #1, 1/1954
minority report (ntte) astounding vol. xxxxiii #4, 6/1949
the hurkle is a happy beast (ss) the magazine of fantasy (later f&sf) vol.1 #1, fall (10/)1949
thunder and roses (ntte) astounding vol. xxxx #3, 11/1947
bulkhead (ntte) galaxy vol.9 #6, 3/1955, three b+w illustrations by ashman,; galaxy strato bre #29, 8/1955, one illustration only; both as ''who?''
tiny and the monster (ntte) astounding vol. xxxix #3, 5/1947, four b+w illustrations by ed cartier
a way home (ss) amazing vol.25 #4, 4-5/1953 as ''the way home'', two b+w illustrations by d. (david) stone


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