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ppint. 5th Dec 2023		Book Woody Allen - A Proposito Di Niente (2020)	english title needs correcting to ''apropos of nothing'' (i.e. the '' - autobiography'' should be deleted) after which bookcat should sort this edition correctly together with all the other editions 03:30 6/12/2023: edit: this now done & being sorted together ok.
ppint. 5th Dec 2023		Book Virginia Kidd - The Eye Of The Heron And Other Stories (1980)	ursula le guin's by-line on the front cover (as ursula k. le guin) is set in purpley-mauve type *far* larger than the editorial by-line of virginia kidd's, or the ''and other stories'' - as, indeed, is the title of ursula le guin's novel, now adopted as the greater part of that for the anthology, in a somewhat more somber blue. whilst this may well have made sense as a commercial decision by collins/granada books' editorial, it is undoubtedly liable to have confused a fair number of people, and will doubtless continue to do so.
ppint. 5th Dec 2023		Book Paul Capon - Phobos, The Robot Planet (1965)	not a digit books imprint publication: publisher should be corrected to brown, watson; the entered year of publication also is^W was incorrect - it's 1965; and no month is stated.
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - Davy (1990)	collier macmillan collier nucleus mmpb(?)° first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by paul lehr (unsigned (?), credited iirc; recognisable from the style) cover price $4.95 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - small p/b format, but may've been a trade edition
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - Davy (1982)	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous fourth printings (so-stated) the accounting of ballantine mmpbs' printings seems to've got a bit out of synch with itself. . . cover art by boris vallejo (unsigned, credited; unsigned because shot up and then cropped to fit covers from the previous ballantine books mmpb printings) cover price $3.50 canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $2.75 wholly merkin-printed copies 268pp. (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 fourth us printing: november 1982
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - Davy (1976)	random house group ballantine books mmpb fourth printings° sharing new cat#, isbn, cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris, credited) cover price $1.50 268pp. (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 ° - seems to retrospectively be accounting the first canadadian printing as the third printing over-all, despite its having been the second-printed...†‡ † - ''publishers!. . .''‡ ‡ - unless the wholly merkin-printed variant of this printing has been misidentified, and should've been recorded as ballantine books third merkin mmpb printing. . .
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Edgar Pangborn - Davy (1973)	random house group ballantine books mmpb second merkin printing, third printing over-all cover art by robert (bob) foster (unsigned, uncredited; unsigned only because circle-cropped from the usage on the two first printings) cover price $1.25 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - No Boundaries (1961)	the richard powers cover art is re-used from ''outpost mars'' cyril judd (collaborative pseudonym of c. m. kornbluth, judith merril); dell mmpb 760 (1961), q.v., with - superimposed floating in the air mid-cover - a face, i think by edgar hodges, added (remember to keep an eye out for its source).
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book C. M. Kornbluth - Outpost Mars (1954)	this same cover art by richard powers re-used on two uk p/bs, with the addition of a face apparently by edgar hodges superimposed floating in the air - a different face on the two different uk pbs; on: ''no boundaries'' henry kuttner, c. l. moore; world distributors (manchester) consul SF1025 (uk 1961), q.v. and, reversed left-to-right, on: ''a piece of martin cann'' laurence m. janifer; pbs ltd. manchester, five star (uk 1972), q.v.
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Robert Spencer Carr - The Rampant Age (1928)	doubleday, doran & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (i've not yet seen the d-j) cover (d-j) price 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between light brown cloth-covered boards, title etc. printed on spine and front cloth in black
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Robert Spencer Carr - The Room Beyond (1948)	appleton-century-croft h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned) typographical upon a multiply-repeating series of diminishing doorways printed in purple cover (d-j) price $3.00 432pp. (check);including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Robert Spencer Carr - Beyond Infinity (1954)	contents: beyond infinity (novella) blue book 8/1950 as ''the laughter of the stars'' morning star (novelette) saturday evening post 6/12/1947 those men from mars (ntte) saturday evening post 24/9/1949 as ''easter eggs'' by robert s. carr; american science fiction #20 (xxxxia) 12/1953 as ''the invaders'' mutation (short story) (original to this collection)
ppint. 4th Dec 2023		Book Robert Spencer Carr - Beyond Infinity (1954)	dell mmpb undated° first printing, first p/b edition mostly reprint collection of a novella, two novelettes and a short story (original) cover art by richard powers (unsigned, credited) cover price 35¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc. ° - copyright years of individual stories given; publication year of this mmpb presumably taken from tuck
ppint. 3rd Dec 2023		Book James Blish - The Star Dwellers (1965)	avon books mmpb third printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by richard powers (cropped from that of first avon mmpb printings, typography etc. now on white (unprinted) background) cover price 50¢ 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, etc. 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 third avon printing, july, 1965 and which also gives the month and year date of the first printing; one of which has evidently been implicitly retrospectively deemed to have been the second printing
ppint. 3rd Dec 2023		Book James Blish - The Star Dwellers (1962)	faber & faber first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by john c. griffiths cover (d-j) price 13/6d 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards refer to indicia publishing history to check for presence/absence of line(s) noting (at least) two subsequent impressions (printings from the same typesetting): second impression 1963 (existence & date noted in the publishing history of the third impression) third impression 1968 (i)sbn (0-)571-05126-X cover price c. 18/-; may have been increased by publisher's price gun label during the lifetime of the impression.
ppint. 3rd Dec 2023		Book James Blish - The Star Dwellers (1962)	avon mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art by richard powers (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the art of richard powers'' powers, jane frank (2001), q.v.) cover price 40¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, etc. refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book H. Beam Piper - Crisis In 2140 (1957)	novella re-published as ''null-abc'' h. beam piper (usa 2006 & ff.)
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book John Christopher - The Year Of The Comet (1955)	michael joseph h/cvr first printing, first edition novels of tomorrow series edited by clemence dane cover (d-j) art (unsigned, may be credited) cover price 12/6 272pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book C. M. Kornbluth - Christmas Eve (1956)	novels of tomorrow series edited by clemence dane
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book Harold Mead - Mary's Country (1957)	michael joseph h/cvr first printing, first edition novels of tomorrow series edited by clemence dane cover (d-j) art by richard barton (signed barton) cover (d-j) price 12/6 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book Harold Mead - The Bright Phoenix (1960)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by john richards (signed richards, uncredited) cover price 3'6 288pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 2nd Dec 2023		Book Harold Mead - The Bright Phoenix (1955)	michael joseph h/cvr first printing, first edition novels of tomorrow series edited by clemence dane cover (d-j) art b+w vignette by richard barton (unsigned, credited on d-j flap?) cover (d-j) price 12/6 304 pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 1st Dec 2023		Book Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1987)	pearson group penguin imprint b-format p/b, first printing, fourth penguin p/b printing over-all classic science fiction series cover art by john avon (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.95 (any overseas territories prices?) 356pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Dec 2023		Book Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1976)	penguin books p/b near-identical second & third printings, with isbn and new cover art by philip castle (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 75p, $2.55 new zealand, $1.95 canada 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between the second and third printings, both 1976
ppint. 1st Dec 2023		Book Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1969)	penguin books first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 30p 6/-, R0.75 south africa, $1.00 australia, $0.85 new zealand 356pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Dec 2023		Book Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1967)	dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver cover (d-j) price 25s 352pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Case Against Tomorrow (1970)	contents: the midas plague (novella) galaxy vol.8 #1, 4/1954; strato bre #18; both with three b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller the census taker (short story) f&sf vol.10 #2, 2/1956 the candle lighter (ss) galaxy vol.9 #6, 3/1955; strato bre #29, 8/1955 the celebrated no-hit inning (ss) fantastic universe vol.6 #2, 9/1956 wapshot's demon (ss) ''the original'' science fiction stories vol.7 #1, 7/1956 my lady green sleeves (novelette) galaxy vol.13 #4, 2/1957; strato bre #49; both as ''my lady greensleeves'', both with three b+w illustrations by jack gaughan
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - Slave Ship (1957)	serialised in galaxy vol.11 #5, #6 vol.12, #1; 5/1956, 6/1956, 7/1956; galaxy strato bre #38, #39, #49; part one cover story, cover art and four b+w interior b+w illustrations by ed emshwiller: parts two and three: four b+w illustrations each, also by ed emshwiller; the strato bre #39: part two drops one of emsh's illustrations.
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Eye Of The Heron (1982)	first book publication was in ''millennial women'' (aka ''the eye of the heron and other stories''), ed. virginia kidd (1978), q.v.
ppint. 30th Nov 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Eye Of The Heron (1982)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first stand-alone edition cover (d-j) art none, typographical cover in black and magenta on ''gollancz yellow'' field cover (d-j) price £6.95 128pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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