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ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - Earthman, Come Home (1958)	avon books simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, abridged edition states ''specially abridged by the author'' on cover, as required by the FTC, and on the title page cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet sfaik unattributed cover price 35¢ 192pp. 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, both state only the 1958 copyright year year of publication taken from donald h. tuck, ibid.
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - The Warriors Of Day (1979)	''serialized'' as ''sword of xota'' in two complete science-adventure books #3, summer (8/1951), q.v.
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - The Warriors Of Day (1979)	london weekend television hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by chris foss (signed with his f in a line-drawn box, uncredited) cover price 95p, $3.20 australia, $2.95 new zealand, not for sale in canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising a 1978 primarily public libraries-aimed uk h/cvr by severn house was licenced by the hutchinson group, but i've not seen a copy of this - so far
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - The Warriors Of Day (1967)	lancer books simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first mmpb edition, not first p/b edition cover art by armand weston (signed weston, uncredited; attribution by william j. denholm iii, ibid.) cover price 60¢ 160pp. 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, both state a lancer book • 1967
ppint. 22nd Sep 2023		Book James Blish - The Warriors Of Day (1953)	galaxy publishing corp. galaxy novels digest format p/b first printing, first edition cover art by paul callé (signed, possibly credited) cover price 35¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, possibly including covers (check)
ppint. 21st Sep 2023		Book Sinclair Lewis - Main Street (1961)	dedication: to james branch cabell and joseph hergesheimer
ppint. 21st Sep 2023		Book Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone (2003)	bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 0 47132 00695 1 04911 the last bloc being the book's cat# and the only part of the bar-code number unique to this book
ppint. 21st Sep 2023		Book Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone (2003)	young wizards #6: #1: ''so you want to be a wizard'' (1983), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 21st Sep 2023		Book Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone (2003)	harcourt, inc. magic carpet books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition dedication: for all the friends from payne whitney cover art by cliff nielsen (unsigned, credited on back cover, ©2003) cover design by virginia andrew (credited on back cover) cover price $6.95/higher in canada 352pp. including twelve unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc; 20 end pp: including ''that getaway urge'' 12pp. extract from ''wizard's holiday'' (2003), young wizards #7; 6 blank end pp. indicia printing letter line: aceghfdb distinguish from at least one near-identical undated reprint by reference to the indicia printing letter line dropping alphabetically successive letters; i.e. ceghfdb indicates second printing; ceghfd would indicate third printing, etc.
ppint. 21st Sep 2023		Book Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone (2002)	harcourt, inc. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by cliff nielsen cover (d-j) price $17.00 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards indicia printing letter line aceghfdb distinguish from 12/2002 near-identical science fiction book club h/cvr edition: cover (d-j) price (none) sfbc cat# 55012 on back d-j indicia printing should not bear printing letter line, but i've not seen a copy to check this
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Roger Harris - The LSD Dossier (1966)	nick allard #1: #1 by roger harris, rewritten by michael moorcock for publication (source: lloyd currey), #2 & #3 by michael moorcock; #1 published as by roger harris, #2 & #3 as by bill barclay: #1: ''the lsd dossier'' (1965), (this book) #2: ''somewhere in the night'' (1966), q.v. #3: ''printer's devil'' (1966), q.v. #2 & #3 comprehensively rewritten and published as the jerry cornell duology: 2#1: ''the chinese agent'' (1970), q.v. 2#2: ''the russian intelligence'' (1980), q.v. omnibus edition of the jerry cornell duology: 2#O: ''jerry cornell's comic capers'' (2005), q.v.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Roger Harris - The LSD Dossier (1966)	roberts & vinter compact books p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3/6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Michael Moorcock - Somewhere In The Night (1966)	roberts & vinter compact books p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 3/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Michael Moorcock - Printer's Devil (1966)	roberts & vinter compact books p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned (? or possibly signed kr for keith roberts ??) cover price 3/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Terry Carr - Universe 15 (1987)	tom doherty associates tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition original anthology of five novelettes and five short stories cover art unsigned can(adian) isbn 0-812-53266-X cover price can(ada) $4.50 cover price u.s. $3.50 256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book P. G. Wodehouse - Uncle Dynamite (1950)	a dell ''mapback'' mmpb
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Murder Of A Mistress (1957)	michael gray #3: #1: ''the murder of eleanor pope'' (1956), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Murder Of A Mistress (1957)	permabook mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by paul bacon, cover photo (? used in composition?) by silver studio cover price 35¢ 172pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Murder Of A Wife (1958)	michael gray #4: #1: ''the murder of eleanor pope'' (1956), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Murder Of A Wife (1958)	permabook mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by william rose (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 35¢ 184pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Murder Of Ann Avery (1959)	michael gray #2: #1: ''the murder of eleanor pope'' (1946), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Murder Of Eleanor Pope (1956)	michael gray #1 novels of crime detection, analysis and prevention by a clinical psychiatrist - written by an author doing an ma - a further degree - in (iiuc) clinical psychology at usc (the university of southern california); the last books henry kuttner wrote as he began to concentrate upon this - and then, alas, died 3/2/1958 very unexpectedly in his sleep, it is believed of a stroke, at not yet 43. (c. l. moore, professional author in her own right, and then his equal partner - and then also his wife - married again, but to a man who strongly disapproved of her writing sf and fantasy.) #1: ''the murder of eleanor pope'' (1956), (this book) #2: ''the murder of ann avery'' (1956), q.v. #3: ''the murder of a mistress'' (1957), q.v. #4: ''the murder of a wife'' (1958), q.v.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Murder Of Eleanor Pope (1956)	permabook mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by alfred gescheidt (unsigned, combined photographic and painted parts) cover price 25¢ 152pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Black God's Kiss (2007)	nothing whatsoever to do with the two-dimensional red sonja, who (possibly paradoxically, in view of her hollywood representation) is rather flat. - if anything, the fantasy comic heroine most akin to jirel is redfox, especially during the period when chris bell was writing the plots and scripting the issues of this comic - for valkyrie comics).
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning (1987)	popular library questar series mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition ''first popular library printing: july, 1987''; ''questar'' is not mentioned on the title page cover art by vincent difate (signed, credited) canadian isbn 044520463X cover price $3.50 u.s.a. ($4.50 canada) 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning (1960)	world distributors (manchester) ltd. wdl books p/b first printing, first uk edition author mistakenly mis-credited as ''c. e. moore'' cover art unsigned, uncredited; prob'ly by edgar hodges on stylistic grounds cover price 2'6 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book C. L. Moore - Doomsday Morning (1968)	the hearst corporation avon books simultaneous mmpb third printings over-all (the simultaneous first printings being retrospectively accounted the first and second printings), sharing merkin-printed covers with new cover art by douglas rosa (unsigned, credited; back cover art is l-r reflexion of front cover art) cover price 60¢ 208pp. (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 no priority established nor liable to be, both state third printing, november, 1968
ppint. 20th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Chessboard Planet (1984)	contents: introduction (nf) and on fairy chess (nf) by the editor chessboard planet (novella) astounding vol. xxxvi #5, #6; 1/1946, 2/1946, as ''the fairy chessmen'', as by lewis padgett - part one is the cover story, art by timmins; - part one has five, part two has seven b+w illustrations by paul orban camouflage (novelette) astounding vol. xxxvi #1, 9/1945; four b+w illustrations by paul orban android (ntte) f&sf vol.2 #3, 6/1951, as by c. h. liddell or else (short story) amazing vol. 27 #6, 8-9/1953
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Best Of Henry Kuttner (1975)	random house group ballantine books simultaneous first mmpb printings, first edition (the book club edition that may slightly precede the distribution of the mmpb was not for public sale, being only for sale to members of the book club) cover art by dean ellis (unsigned, uncredited; source ?) cover price $1.95 420pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, nf introduction, 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, both state first printing: april, 1975
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - The Murder Of Ann Avery (1959)	lionel miller & son banner books p/b first uk p/b, prob'ly (almost certainly) first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2/-

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