ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookJerry 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
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca 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
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca 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.
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ppint. 7th Dec 2023 | | BookRebecca 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
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael Avallone - The Living Bomb (1965) | ed noon series #11:
#1: ''the tall dolores'' michael avallone (1953), q.v.
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael Avallone - The Living Bomb (1965) | publisher is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to brown, watson
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ppint. 6th Dec 2023 | | BookMichael 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.
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ppint. 5th Dec 2023 | | BookWoody 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.
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ppint. 5th Dec 2023 | | BookVirginia 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.
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ppint. 5th Dec 2023 | | BookPaul 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.
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookEdgar 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
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookEdgar 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
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookEdgar 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. . .
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookEdgar 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
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookHenry 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*).
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookC. 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.
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert 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
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert 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
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert 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)
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ppint. 4th Dec 2023 | | BookRobert 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
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ppint. 3rd Dec 2023 | | BookJames 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
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ppint. 3rd Dec 2023 | | BookJames 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.
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ppint. 3rd Dec 2023 | | BookJames 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
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookH. Beam Piper - Crisis In 2140 (1957) | novella re-published as ''null-abc'' h. beam piper (usa 2006 & ff.)
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookJohn 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
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookC. M. Kornbluth - Christmas Eve (1956) | novels of tomorrow series edited by clemence dane
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookHarold 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
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookHarold 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
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ppint. 2nd Dec 2023 | | BookHarold 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
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ppint. 1st Dec 2023 | | BookFritz 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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