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ppint. 26th Sep 2023		Book David Duncan - Dark Dominion (1955)	heinemann h/cvr first printing, first uk edition the poem, ''lucifer by starlight'' by george meredith (1883) is quoted in full on unnumbered p.6 cover (d-j) art by e. b. mudge-marriott (signed mudge-marriott, uncredited) cover (d-j) price 9/6d (some copies possibly (later?) priced 19/6d as per donald h. tuck) 240pp. including titles, indicia, poem, etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 26th Sep 2023		Book C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes A Toast (1961)	geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first omnibus(?) edition/first thus adds the 1959 text of screwtape's extended after-dinner speech to hs thirty-one letters, plus a new nf introduction by the author cover (d-j) art none, typographical cover upon a basic design cover (d-j) price 12/6 160pp. including titles, indicia, introduction, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 26th Sep 2023		Book C. S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)	geoffrey bles - the centenary press h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art none: typographical cover cover (d-j) price 5/- (source: lloyd currey) 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards distinguish from near-identical(?) reprints: second printing 1942 third printing also 1942; title page states geoffrey bles : the centenary press 37 essex street, strand, london (the founder-owner of the centenary press introduced c. s. lewis to geoffrey bles and vice-versa, so that bles might take over publishing his works - and, presumably, the century press.°) and, quite probapossibly, further reprintings ° - geoffrey bles went on to publish much by c. s. lewis, including all but the last two of the narnia books.
ppint. 26th Sep 2023		Book C. S. Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (1975)	first published date corrected.
ppint. 25th Sep 2023		Book H. G. Wells - The Island Of Doctor Moreau (1958)	ace mmpb first printing, first mmpb edition, not first p/b edition title is ''the island of dr. moreau'' not ''... doctor ..''; which word does not appear in this p/b's title. ''english title'' field should contain ''the island of doctor moreau'' cover art unsigned(?), uncredited cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 25th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Butcher Of Smithfield (2008)	first sphere imprint p/b printing is liable to've been 2009, the year after the h/cvr: should be checked.
ppint. 25th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Butcher Of Smithfield (2008)	thomas chaloner #3: #1: ''a conspiracy of violence'' (2006), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Chelsea Strangler (2016)	thomas chaloner #11: #1: ''a conspiracy of violence'' (2006), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Executioner Of St. Paul's (2017)	thomas chaloner #12: #1: ''a conspiracy of violence'' (2006), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book James Blish - ...and All The Stars A Stage (1975)	serialised in amazing stories vol.34 #6, #7; 6/1960, 7/1960 each part with a b+w illustration by virgil finlay
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book James Blish - ...and All The Stars A Stage (1975)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 40p, $1.30 australia, $1.30 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book James Blish - ...and All The Stars A Stage (1972)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by judith ann lawrence cover (d-j) price £1.90 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - A Conspiracy Of Violence (2007)	the title is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected: it should be ''a conspiracy of violence'' and not ''a conpiracy of violence''; there is no such word as ''conpiracy'' in english - not even as an obsolete legal term from the 17th, 18th &/or 19th centuries c.e.
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - A Conspiracy Of Violence (2007)	thomas chaloner series #1: in order of publication: #1: ''a conspiracy of violence'' (2006), (this novel) #2: ''blood on the strand'' (2008), q.v. #3: ''the butcher of smithfield'' (2010), q.v. #4: ''the westminster poisoner'' (2010), q.v. #5: ''a murder on london bridge'' (2011), q.v. #6: ''the body in the thames'' (2011), q.v. #7: ''the piccadilly plot'' (2012), q.v. #8: ''death in st. james's park'' (2013), q.v. #9: ''murder on high holborn'' (2014), q.v. #10: ''the cheapside corpse'' (2015), q.v. #11: ''the chelsea strangler'' (2016), q.v. #12: ''the executioner of st. paul's'' (2017), q.v. #13: ''intrigue in covent garden'' (2018), q.v. #14: ''the clerkenwell affair'' (2020), q.v. #15: ''the pudding lane plot'' (2022), q.v.
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Body In The Thames (2012)	a thomas chaloner adventure #6 (but this is nowhere stated) #1: ''a conspiracy of violence'' (2006), q.v.
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Susanna Gregory - The Body In The Thames (2012)	hachette uk little, brown group sphere imprint p/b first printing dedication: for hendrick berends my dutch consultant cover art image of the savoy courtesy of the city of london archive b+w map of london with map of whitehall, etc, inset (unsigned, uncredited) cover price £8.99, $14.99 can(ada) 480pp. including eight unpaginated unnumbered pp. titles, indicia, etc, 4 end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Lin Carter - Tower At The Edge Of Time (1969)	tower books mmpb undated° simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, not first mmpb edition cover art unsigned(?), uncredited cover price 60¢ 144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established, nor liable to be ° - year of publication estimated from interpolation of cat# into sequence of known publication dates, and comparison of cover prices of tower mmpbs of the same extent
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Lin Carter - Tower At The Edge Of Time (1977)	belmont publications belmont tower imprint mmpb first printing, second belmont publications mmpb printing over-all, but third mmpb printing over-all because of the intervening 1969 tower mmpb. . . cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price $1.50 144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Lin Carter - Thongor And The Wizard Of Lemuria (1976)	publisher is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has now been corrected date of this edition is still wrong and should still be corrected
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book Lester Del Rey - Step To The Stars (1966)	cat# is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has now been corrected to 52-955 as per the cover image and as per the correction of 13/7/2019, and that of 24/8/2023, with full listing of paperback library mmpb cat# prefixes and the prices they indicate
ppint. 24th Sep 2023		Book George MacDonald - At The Back Of The North Wind (1966)	thomas bouregy & co. airmont books small format trade p/b first printing airmont classics series CL100 nf introduction by dr. alan c. thomas likely © copyright 1966 cover art unsigned, uncredited interior b+w illustrations probably by arthur hughes (1871), but i've not checked this; the novel, illustrated by arthur hughes, was first published 1870 or 1871 with illustrations by jessie wilcox smith, first published 1919 with illustrations by f. d. bedford, first published 1924 with illustrations by frances brundage, first published 1927 cover price 60¢ 288pp. including titles, indicia, introduction, etc. distinguish from at least one further printing, perhaps more, by reference to the last printed page of the text (i.e. ignoring any advertising/promotional pages) for printer's code/abbreviation of date, also increase in printed cover price; cover price 75¢ known, is the cover image above; date not given by original poster
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass (1965)	thomas bouregy & co. airmont books small format trade p/b first printing airmont classics series fiction, fantasy, mathematics, philosophy, religion, topology - and humour - and not a little satire nf introduction by c. l. bennet cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w interior art by sir john tenniel (from 1865 & 1871) cover price 50¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia etc. distinguish from near-identical reprintings by rising cover price and also by reference to last or penultimate page of printed text for printer's code/abbreviation of printing date° reprints rise to at least cover price 95¢ ° their last reprinting may lack any printer's code/abbreviation
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book Jules Verne - A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1965)	thomas bouregy & co. airmont books small format trade p/b first printing, of first p/b edition airmont classic series uses the first english translation, published by griffith and farran in h/cvr (1871 or 1872), q.v. nf introduction by robert a. w. lowndes cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaik cover price 95¢ 256pp. including titles, indicia, introduction, etc, end pp. advertising last or penultimate page of text usually bears the printer's job (abbreviation of) date printed highly unlikely to boast an sbn, let alone an isbn - this is prob'ly an amazoniclasm, as the sbn wasn't invented 'til later in the sixties - until a considerably later printing; the cover shown is of a later reprinting.
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - The Duplicated Man (1964)	revision° of the short novel/novella published in dynamic science fiction vol.1 #4, 8/1953 ° - yr hmbl srppnt.'s not compared the texts to say whether expanded, or by how much, if so
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book H. G. Wells - The Island Of Doctor Moreau (1966)	thomas bouregy & co. airmont books undated small format trade p/b iiuc, not an mmpb, unstated ordinality of printing probapossibly more than one printing° classics series CL110 nf introduction by r. a. w. lowndes cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 50¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, nf introduction, end pp. ° refer to last or penultimate page of printed text - usually not including any advertising or promotional material - for printer's job abbreviation of month-year date. ° - this may've been produced legally without payment to the author's estate under merkin copyright law, as it took quite a while for this to be brought in-line with that of the rest of the civilised world
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book Philip Wylie - After Worlds Collide (1973)	warner publishing warner paperback library mmpb first printing, sixth paperback library printing over-all (accounting the two 6/1970 variants as one printing) cover art by stan (stanislaw) zagorski (signed zagorski, credited) cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical seventh printing by reference to the indicia printing history which adds line stating seventh printing: september, 1973
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book Philip Wylie - After Worlds Collide (1970)	coronet communications paperback library simultaneous mmpb fifth printings cover art by michael leonard (signed leonard, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia printing history to see if carcass (''body text'') of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state fifth printing, june, 1970
ppint. 23rd Sep 2023		Book Philip Wylie - The Savage Gentleman (1952)	anc avon publishing co. avon imprint undated?° mmpb first printing cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price (none printed, 25¢ was presumed unless elsewise indicated) 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (1994)	first published date is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has now been corrected to 1994 this is the simultaneous first edition
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (1994)	first published date is^W was still wrong and should^W still^W has been corrected to 1994 this is the simultaneous first edition

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