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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 7th Dec 2023		Book Jerry Sohl - The Transcendent Man (1959)	bantam books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition art by bob abbett (signed abbett, uncredited) cover price 35¢ 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia 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 bantam edition published august 1959
ppint. 7th Dec 2023		Book Rebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness (2013)	the copyright date niggles; check this wasn't first published in 2012, and the 2022 is a tyop/misprint edit in stronger light: they're my misreadings and should^W have been corrected to 2012 & 2013
ppint. 7th Dec 2023		Book Rebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness (2013)	the lake district mysteries #1 (unspecified): in order of first publication date: #1: ''the windermere witness'' (2012), (this novel) #2: ''the ambleside alibi'' (2013), q.v. #3: ''the coniston case'' (2014), q.v. #4: ''the troutbeck testimony'' (2015), q.v. #5: ''the hawkshead hostage'' (2016), q.v. #6: ''the bowness bequest'' (2017), q.v. #7: ''the stavely suspect'' (2018), q.v. #8: ''the grasmere grudge'' (2019), q.v. #9: ''the patterdale plot'' (2020), q.v. #10: ''the threlkeld theory'' (2022), q.v.
ppint. 7th Dec 2023		Book Rebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness (2013)	allison & busby p/b first printing, first p/b edition° dedication: for vronny - hoping we're still friends after two weeks in a car together. cover art unsigned photographic © brett charlton/stockphoto cover price £7.99 416pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p advertising, 1p blank distinguish between at least three further undated near-identical printings by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line
ppint. 6th Dec 2023		Book Michael Avallone - The Living Bomb (1965)	ed noon series #11: #1: ''the tall dolores'' michael avallone (1953), q.v.
ppint. 6th Dec 2023		Book Michael Avallone - The Living Bomb (1965)	publisher is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to brown, watson
ppint. 6th Dec 2023		Book Michael Avallone - The Living Bomb (1965)	brown, watson p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art (unsigned or indecipherable, uncredited) cover price 3/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising not a digit books imprint p/b, though cat#ed following on in the same sequence; brown, watson ltd. had closed down the digit books imprint possibly as a result of the collapse of thorpe & porter ltd. news distributors owing their suppliers for between three and six months stock - and possibly more.
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

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