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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Desmond Young - Rommel (1955)	collins fontana books imprint first printing, first p/b edition with foreword by field-marshal sir claude auchinleck (aka ''the auk'') cover art unsigned uncredited cover price 2'6 320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters), foreword etc, 4 end pp. advertising (2pp. listing the first fifty fontana books p/bs, 2pp. advertising four of these, two with thumbnail precises, two with press reviews
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Gillian Tindall - Célestine (1999)	at least seven undated vintage b-format p/b reprintings distinguishable by reference to the indicia printing letter line progressively dropping letters in alphabetical order.
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Gillian Tindall - Célestine (1999)	random house (uk) vintage books b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition (first uk p/b edition was published under the minerva books imprint) cover art unsigned cover price £9.99, can $21.95 (canada) 304pp. including (i)-(x) pp. titles, indicia etc, 19 end pp: 6pp. afterword, 4pp. bibliography, 8pp. index, 1 blank p. isbn is from the previously hamlyn publishing group/octopus publishing group/reed international group/reed-elséviér group methuen mandarin / mandarin books block of numbers
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Gillian Tindall - Célestine (1995)	sinclair-stevenson h/cvr first printing, first edition
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - Well Of The Worlds (1953)	the anc under the cat# block on the front cover indicates the primary news distributor (= primary newspapers, magazines & mmpb wholesalers) was american news corporation, merkia's only coast-to-coast news distributor (until taken over, asset-stripped and more-or-less dismembered).
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - The Far Reality (1963)	serialised as ''the fairy chessmen'' in astounding vol. xxxvi #5, #6; 1/1946, 2/1946; part one is the cover story, art by timmins; parts one & two have respectively five and seven b+w illustrations by (paul) orban
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - Tomorrow And Tomorrow (1963)	serialised in astounding vol. xxxviii #5, #6; 1/1947, 2/1947; part one is the cover story, art by timmins; parts one & two have respectively three and five b+w illustrations by (paul) orban
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Lewis Padgett - Tomorrow And Tomorrow (1963)	world distributors (manchester) ltd. consul books p/b first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 2'6 112pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Man Drowning (1961)	four square books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by josh kirby (signed kirby, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Henry Kuttner - Destination Infinity (1958)	''(fury)'' is not the subtitle, and should^W has been deleted from this field° the original title was ''fury'' - and this should^W has been entered in the english title field, after which bookcat will automagically sort together all editions of this title by this author correctly. ° - if a merkin publisher changed the title of a book upon producing their/a new edition, which practise became an epidemic of its kind amongst - mostly small mmpb publishers frequently specialising in what was then referred to as ''sleaze'' (virtually a publishing category in its own right) - the legible noting of the original title upon the front cover (and possibly elsewhere) was mandated by the FTC - the merkin fair (?federal?) trade commission.
ppint. 19th Sep 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! [The Graphic Novel] (2000)	simultaneous first edition 2000 a.d. / c.e. not previously published in any year together with the simultaneous h/cvr, this is the primary edition of the graphic novel, and it should be bookcatted separately from the novel, just as the playscripts are. yr hmbl srppnt. suggests ''guards! guards! - a discworld graphic novel''.
ppint. 18th Sep 2023		Book Gilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories No 2 (1988)	title is^W was wrong and should^W has been emended to ''fat freddy's comics & stories no.2'' as per the cover image elsewise bookcat sorts the different issues together incorrectly as though they were identical - - which they are not; they have different contents, as well as different titles.
ppint. 18th Sep 2023		Book Gilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy's Comics & Stories No 1 (1983)	the title of this is^W was wrong and should^W has been emended to ''fat freddy's comics & stories no.1'' as per the cover image elsewise bookcat sorts the different issues together incorrectly, as though they were identical - - which they are not; they are different, with different contents.
ppint. 18th Sep 2023		Book Gene Wolfe - The Devil In A Forest (1977)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by r. krepel (signed°, uncredited) cover price $1.50 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° -:i don't believe anyone deciphered this - but there's a pyramid books mmpb with art signed similarly, where it's credited to r. krepel; ''re-enter fu manchu'' sax rohmer, pyramid V3944 (1976)...
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates (1985)	chatto & windus chatto yp/b simultaneous first printing, first uk simultaneous with the chatto & windus • the hogarth press h/cvr bind-up of the same signatures cover art by don macpherson cover price £3.95 388pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. publication month not given in indicia publishing history, taken from locus
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates (1985)	chatto & windus • the hogarth press simultaneous h/cvr first printing, first h/cvr edition simultaneous with the chatto & windus yp/b card bind-up of the same signatures cover (d-j) art by don macpherson cover (d-j) price £9.95 388pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards month of publication not given in indicia publishing history; taken from locus
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book John Brunner - Interstellar Empire (1987)	hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, second uk p/b printing over-all venture science fiction series# V04 cover art by eddie jones retained in re-designed cover cover price £2.50 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book John Brunner - Interstellar Empire (1978)	hutchinson publishing group hamlyn paperbacks first printing, first uk edition venture science fiction series# V04 cover art by eddie jones (re-used from publication in vortex vol.1 #5, 5/1977) cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book John Brunner - Interstellar Empire (1986)	daw books mmpb seventh printing cover art by vicente segrelles (retained from previous four daw mmpb printings, credited) cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $2.95 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising date of printing/publication taken from locus yr hmbl srppnt. does not know of a later daw books printing
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book John Norman - Tarnsman Of Gor (1969)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk and first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited) (d-j design by format credited on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price 21/- © 1966 by john lange 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between dark red cloth-covered boards with sf, two lines, title, author, two lines & logo, sidgwick & jackson blocked in gold on spine
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book John Norman - Tarnsman Of Gor (1969)	actually bears the appropriate nine-digit standard book number, in the system that became part of the international standard book number system by the creation of the english language identifer, 0, and its notional prepension to all issued and still-current numbers already issued - or actual prepension in the event of the editions - or their dust-jackets - being reprinted thereafter; entered as the probably non-extant isbn because someone's deleting the correct and compatible sbns, thus reducing the information in, and the usefulness of, bookcat.
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Sherwood King - If I Die Before I Wake (1953)	doubled with ''decoy'' michael morgan (1953), q.v.
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Sherwood King - If I Die Before I Wake (1953)	ace books mmpb first printing, prob'ly first mmpb edition half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by harry barton (attribution from the ace image library) cover price 35¢ ½ ?320pp? including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. advertising in-between the double's halves
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Michael Morgan - Decoy (1953)	doubled with ''if i die before i wake'' sherwood king (1938), q.v.
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Michael Morgan - Decoy (1953)	ace books mmpb first printing, first edition half a classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 35¢ ½ ?320pp? including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Charles Nuetzel - Jungle Jungle (1969)	powell books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by bill hughes cover price 95¢ 208pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book Charles Nuetzel - Raiders Of Noomas (1969)	powell books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by albert nuetzel (signed nuetzell?, uncredited?, attributed by charles nuetzel) b+w interior illustrations by louis dewitt cover price 95¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th Sep 2023		Book A. E. Van Vogt - Out Of The Unknown (1969)	powell books, inc. mmpb undated first printing, first p/b edition three novelettes by a. e. van vogt, with four short stories by e. mayne hull, one original to this edition of the twin author collection/anonymously-edited anthology, with nf introduction by a. e. van vogt cover art by albert nuetzel (signed nuetzell?, uncredited; attributed by charles nuetzel°) b+w frontispiece (unsigned?, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia, nf introduction, etc, end pp. ° - charles nuetzel, albert nuetzel's son and packager-editor of powell books for bill trotter, the owner
ppint. 16th Sep 2023		Book Poul Anderson - The Earthbook Of Stormgate (1979)	contents: technic civilization / the merchant princes / the polesotechnic league / avalon series stories: (the three-volume uk p/b edition reprints the full collection, breaking before and after the novel, ''the man who counts'' (''war of the wing-men''): a chronology of technic civilization (nf/nf within f) sandra miesel wings of victory (novelette) analog vol. lxxxix #2, 4/1972 the problem of pain (ntte) f&sf vol.44 #2, 2/1973 (avalon), the cover story, art by Bert tanner how to be ethnic in one easy lesson (ntte) in ''future quest'' ed. roger elwood (1973) margin of profit (ntte) astounding vol. lviii #1, 9/1956 (nicholas van rijn) three b+w illustrs by freas esau (ntte) analog vol. lxxxiv #6, 4/1970 as ''birthright'', cover story, art and two b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas the season of forgiveness (short story) boys life, 12/1973 ''the man who counts'' (novel), as ''war of the wing-men'' (1958), q.v. (nicholas van rijn) a little knowledge (ntte) analog vol. lxxxvii #6, 8/1971 day of burning (ntte) astounding vol. lxxviii #5, 1/1967 as ''supernova'' (david falkayn), cover story, art by chesley bonestall, two b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas lodestar (ntte) in ''astounding: john w. campbell memorial anthology'' ed. harry harrison (1963) (nicholas van rijn) wingless (ss) in ''children of infinity'' ed. rogervelwood (1973), as ''wingless on avalon'' rescue on avalon (ss) boys life 7/1973 (avalon)
ppint. 16th Sep 2023		Book Dodie Smith - Stories Of The Hundred And One Dalmatians (1989)	octopus publishing group (?) chancellor press imprint h/cvr first printing, first omnibus edition sfaik omnibus edition of ''the hundred and one dalmatians'' & ''the starlight barking'', qq.v. cover (d-j) art (unsigned, ?uncredited?) interior b+w illustrations by anne grahame johnstone, janet grahame-johnstone (from the heinemann first edition h/cvrs) cover (d-j) price none, sfaicr° 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards ° - this was published as an instant remainder h/cvr and iirc there was no price printed on the d-j front flap of the few (half dozen?) copies bought by yr hmbl srppnt. - bicbw

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