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ppint. 18th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Prostho Plus (1974)	thomson books ltd. sphere books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition, possibly first p/b edition cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced on one of his website pages) cover price 35p, $1.10 australia, $1.10 new zealand 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 18th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Prostho Plus (1972)	j. m. dent & sons readers union group science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards after david & charles bought the readers union group of book clubs, they recat#ed this 5042, but their grand alphabetical by title stock renumbering seems to've been purely theoretical.
ppint. 18th Jul 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Prostho Plus (1971)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, seemingly first edition reprint collection of the dr. dillingham stories, two short stories and three novelettes presented as a novel cover (d-j) art none; black and magenta typography on a ''gollancz yellow'' field, title curved down on two lines cover (d-j) price £1.60 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 17th Jul 2023		Book Robert C. Goldston - The Last Of Lazarus (1967)	hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by tomi ungerer cover price 75¢ 224pp. including titles, indicia etc. author's name given as robert goldston on front cover; he wrote history non-fiction books, some as by ''robert conroy'', and non-sf crime etc. under the by-line ''james stark'', but it was another person of that name as painted cover art for 9 issues of sf magazine nebula, 1956-8
ppint. 17th Jul 2023		Book Herbert D. Kastle - The Reassembled Man	eclipse books p/b first printing, first known australian edition cover art unsigned, uncredited°, by jack faragasso (my identification) cover price 90¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia (ha!) etc. no publication date given, only (iirc°°) the original copyright date of 1964 (°° - check); but this p/b is probably from around 1971; and probably not earlier than 9/1971, as that's when the cover art appeared on i. g. green's ''time beyond time'' from belmont publications, new york, q.v.; and jack faragasso is a native new yorker, as in ny, ny, not ny, nz... copies of this turn up secondhand, sometimes as new, in the uk, so it was possibly remaindered here; i do not know whether eclipse books had any official uk distribution. ° - the cover art was further re-used by manor books, inc. on at least three different mmpb titles: ''masters of the maze'' avram davidson (manor books 1976), q.v. ''when next i wake'' ''frank dorn'' (manor books (dated 1978, appeared 1979)), q.v. ''biodroids 2300'' c. m. alexander (manor books dated 1979, appeared 1980)), q.v. it's unsigned and uncredited on all three.
ppint. 17th Jul 2023		Book Herbert D. Kastle - The Reassembled Man (1969)	fawcett publications fawcett gold medal imprint mmpb first printing, second fawcett mmpb printing near-identical with fawcett publications gold medal imprint mmpb first printing, save for imprint & cat# cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned, uncredited, retained from first edition) cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 17th Jul 2023		Book Herbert D. Kastle - The Reassembled Man (1964)	fawcett publications gold medal imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''frank frazetta book IV'' betty ballantine, frank frazetta (1980), q.v. cover price 45¢ 192pp. including titles, indica etc. date of publication not given, copyright date taken as year of publication
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Shoot At The Moon (1971)	granada publishing group panther imprint p/b first printing, second panther books printing with new cover art by peter tybus (unsigned, credited) cover price 25p (5/-), 60c south africa, 80c australia, 80c new zealand, 95c canada 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Shoot At The Moon (1970)	macfadden books mmpb second printing cover art by jack faragasso (signed, uncredited) cover price 75¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising there may've been a variant with canadadian-printed carcases, but i've not held nor seen such reported
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Shoot At The Moon (1967)	macfadden books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first merkin p/b edition cover art unsigned photographic of small silver plastic spaceman figure on diorama with backdrop cover price 60¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising see indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state a macfadden book ....... 1967 month of publication not given, taken from publishing history in second printing
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Shoot At The Moon (1966)	whiting & wheaton h/cvr first printing, first edition cover d-j) art by richard weaver cover d-j) price 18/- 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Shoot At The Moon (1967)	panther books ltd. first printing, first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic cover price 3/6 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book William F. Temple - Martin Magnus On Venus (1970)	granada publishing mayflower books mayflower/dragon imprint green dragon first printing, first p/b edition cover art (unclearly signed, uncredited) cover price 3/6, 45c south africa, 60c australia, 55c new zealand, 75c canada 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Rimrunners (1991)	Rated 9/10 an sf action/adventure novel of bet yeager, ex-mazianni fleet marine, an unwilling conscript onto a spook ship selling information on the movement of mallory's capital ship (and allies and recruits) now defending the merchanters' alliance to ships of the mazianni - formerly earth company's - fleet, now more than semi-feral, and to anyone else as'll pay, finding her feet, and finding, and making herself a position in the pecking order - or failing to - onboard an unhappy ship, permanently on the edge, where the officers are out to get one another, the captain's at least half gone, and most of the crew bar one seem to be unwilling but cowed misfits - and even he agrees with everyone else that he's no bloody good - - all set against - and sometimes at action stations in - the time towards the end of the company wars and its aftermath. more-or-less contemporaneous with - a little after - ''merchanter's luck'' (1982), q.v., and with and a little after parts of the hugo award-winning major company wars novel, ''downbelow station'' (1981), q.v. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Rimrunners (1991)	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint first general p/b printing (reported preceded by a h/cvr and a yp/b hodder & stoughton group edition, but i've not seen these) cover art by steve crisp (unsigned, uncredited, reproduced on artist's website under ''fantasy'') cover price £3.99, $10.95 australia 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Rimrunners (1990)	warner books popular library imprint questar series mmpb first printing, first general p/b edition may have been preceded by the hodder & stoughton new english library yp/b first uk p/b edition cover art by don maitz unsigned, credited cover price $4.95 usa ($5.95 canada) 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from at least two undated near-identical reprintings which progressively drop the lowest remaining digit
ppint. 16th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Rimrunners (1989)	warner books questar series h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by don maitz (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap; reproduced on his website) cover (d-j) price $19.95 (canada $? check) 336pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. (including appendix?), bound with endpapers between covered boards distinguish from near-identical 8/1989 science fiction book club edition which differs: cat# 15114 cover (d-j) price: states book club edition instead 276pp. (check; but text was re-set) including titles, indicia etc, bound between covered boards
ppint. 15th Jul 2023		Book Jeff Hirsch - The Eleventh Plague (2011)	cover price $17.99
ppint. 15th Jul 2023		Book Eando Binder - Menace Of The Saucers (1978)	nordon publications leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition from the same setting, suitably emended, as the belmont mmpb cover art by attila hejja (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th Jul 2023		Book Eando Binder - Menace Of The Saucers (1969)	belmont publications belmont imprint simultaneous near-identical mmpb first printings, first edition cover art by jack faragasso (signed, uncredited) cover price 60¢ 144pp. 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 a belmont book---october 1969
ppint. 15th Jul 2023		Book Avram Davidson - Masters Of The Maze (1974)	white lion publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price £1.80 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th Jul 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - The Silent Invaders (1973)	grosset & dunlap, charter communications ace books mmpb second printing including the ace double, first independent p/b edition cover art by thomas upshur (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''dämonenbrut'' james h. schmitz (ullstein 1973)) cover price 95¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Eric Frank Russell - The Rabble Rousers (1963)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by george suyeoka (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Hal Vetter - Women Of The Swastika (1963)	160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book I. G. Edmonds - Hollywood R.I.P. (1963)	160pp. including titles, indicia , end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book William E. Miles - Damn It! (1963)	160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Avram Davidson - Crimes & Chaos (1962)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art (none really: typographical cover with some black silhouette cartooning supetimposed) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia, b+w illustration on title page, taken from back cover, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Philip José Farmer - Fire And The Night (1962)	included in the omnibus, ''the other in the mirror'' philip josé farmer (2009), q.v.
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Thomas N. Scortia - What Mad Oracle? (1961)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art (none, really: typographical cover with silhouette of a man and a stylised rocket) cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Harlan Ellison - Memos From Purgatory (1961)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon, on their blogspot cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.

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