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ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Harlan Ellison - Gentleman Junkie And Other Stories Of The Hung-up Generation (1961)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition collection of twenty-one mostly sf short stories with nf introduction by frank m. robinson, nf preface and article by the author cover art prob'ly by diane dillon, leo dillon, credited to leo dillon cover price 50¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p.
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Robert Bloch - Firebug (1961)	one of william hamling's pornography, sleaze, erotica - and a little ''straight science fiction'' - empire of mmpb imprints, and possibly the only one to forebear from going for the quick'n'easy bucks of sex books - well, easy - except for the unfortunate predilections of hoover & nixon manifesting in their determination to drive him out of business...
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Mack Reynolds - The Expatriates (1963)	regency books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by ron bradford cover price 50¢ 160pp.including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Higher Education (1997)	jupiter series #1: #1: ''higher education'' (1996), (this novel) #2: ''the billion dollar boy'' charles sheffield (1997), q.v. #3: ''putting up roots'' charles sheffield (1997), q.v. #4: ''the cyborg from earth'' charles sheffield (1998), q.v. #5: ''starswarm'' jerry pournelle (1998), q.v. #6: ''outward bound'' james p. hogan (1999), q.v.
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Higher Education (1997)	tor books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by vincent difate (unsigned, credited) cover price $5.99 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Between The Strokes Of Night (1987)	headline books first p/b printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned cover price £2.95 (any overseas territories prices?) 348pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - The Web Between The Worlds (1981)	london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (unsigned, uncredited; for sale in gallery three on his website) cover price £1.60 280pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including afterword by arthur c. clarke
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Divergence (1992)	victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by peter elson cover price £3.99 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Summertide (1991)	victor gollancz vgsf imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition ~simultaneous with the merkin mmpb first printing cover art by peter elson (signed, half obscured by the title, credited on back cover) cover price £3.99 260pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - The Nimrod Hunt (1986)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by john melo (signed melo, and so credited) cover price $3.50° 416pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including excerpt from ''between the strokes of night'' charles sheffield (stated coming in july 1985...) ° - some copies have the cover price overprinted with a grey, plasticy-looking ink rectangle, and above this, in the same ink, a fresh price of $4.95; these were intended for distribution north of the parallel
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book Mack Reynolds - Space Visitor (1977)	a considerable expansion of ''visitor'' (novelette) in ''tomorrow today'' ed. george zebrowski (1975), q.v.
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book Mack Reynolds - Space Visitor (1977)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by paul alexander (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.50 160pp. (check); including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from undated° near-identical second mmpb printing which differs: red front cover typography changed to orange cover price $1.75 cat# 77783 (i)sbn (0-)441-77783-X some or all of end pp. advertising's titles may well have changed, check for latest-published date; ° - 1978-1979 by my interpolation into ace cover prices vs. mmpbs of this extent of known dates
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book H. Beam Piper - Space Viking (1980)	according to the spiffy ace books five-digit system, cat# should've been increased by 1 from the previous printing, to 77782 (with consequent (i)sbn (0-)441-77782-1); however this cat# had already been allocated to ''space visitor'' by mack reynolds (8/1977), q.v. (and ((0-)441-)77783(-X) to the second printing of this), possibly by mistake - and definitely outwith the rules of the ace books five-digit cat# system; a quick manglement flail around evidently spotted 77779 as being unused, which was still unsystematic - the choice should've gone to a completely unused block of five (or even ten) adjacent cat#s commencing in a terminal ''0'' or a ''5'' (- or arguably, a partly-used block not reserved for another title's reprintings, commencing in a terminal ''2'', to follow on from the terminal ''1'' of 77781) - but it wasn't. and, rather than follow this with 77778, counting down (- well, why not? -) from the anomalous 77779, the next known printing was allocated 77784, with consequent isbn 0-441-77784-8, 9/1983; but its cover is sufficiently different from all of the preceding three michael whelan-covered printings, by virtue of the art being reproduced reversed left-right, in mirror image, to definitely constitute a new bookcat item.
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book H. Beam Piper - Space Viking (1983)	berkley publishing group ace books mmpb presumédly the fifth printing over-all, with new cover design, cover art by michael whelan (signed with his w/m in cartouche, uncredited: art including m/w reversed left-right from 1977 through 1980 printings; upper 40% cover now black, bears titles in blue & white) cover price $2.75 indicia publishing history drops number line, adds new line stating this printing / september 1983 248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book H. Beam Piper - Space Viking (1977)	grosset & dunlap charter communications undated° ace books imprint mmpb first standard format mmpb printing, second ace books printing over-all (first was pocketbook format mmpb F-325 1963) cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited) cover price $1.50 248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date taken from locus having received their review copy 1/1977 distinguish from near-identical undated°° ace mmpb third printing mid-1977: cat# 77781 (i)sbn (0-)441-7781-3 cover price $1.95 °° - no printing or publication date of this printing given, date obtained as being the month of the latest-published title advertised in the end page advertisements distinguish from near-identical 1980 ace mmpb fourth printing with restyled, larger front cover titles: cat# 77779 isbn 0-441-77779-1 cover price $2.25 indicia publishing history gives fourth printing by printing number line, and states this ace printing december 1980 next (and last) known ace books 1983 mmpb printing has re-designed cover, reverses cover art left-right
ppint. 13th Jul 2023		Book H. Beam Piper - Space Viking (1980)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb, fourth printing by number line (third printing of this c. 1/1977 standard format p/b edition, after small pocketbook format first edition) front cover typography re-designed in larger, (viking in panoramic) font, retains the two earlier printings' cover art by michael whelan (signed with his m/w in a cartouche, credited) cat# 77779 indicia publishing history adds line stating this printing december 1980 cover price $2.25 248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Proteus In The Underworld (1995)	baen publishing enterprises baen books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by gary ruddell (unsigned, credited) cover price $5.99, $7.50 can(ada) 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus (1989)	proteus series #1: #1: ''sight of proteus'' (1978), (this novel) #2: ''proteus unbound'' (1989), q.v. #3: ''proteus in the underworld'' (1995), q.v.
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Hunter Of Worlds (1990)	reed/hamlyn/octopus publishing group mandarin imprint first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by danny flynn (unsigned, credited) cover price £3.50, $8.95 australia, $12.95 new zealand 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book C. J. Cherryh - Hunter Of Worlds (1980)	futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by brian salmon (unsigned, uncredited; re-used on ''lebensgeistner gmbh'' robert sheckley (1982), where it is credited) cover price £1.50, $4.95 australia 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Proteus Unbound (1989)	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art by danny flynn (unsigned) (edit: this is an attribution: it is on his website) cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia 268pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus (1989)	hodder & stoughton new english library imprint first printing, not first uk p/b (was the arrow p/b) cover art by danny flynn (unsigned, is on his website and prints're available) cover price £2.99 (?any overseas territories prices? likely: $9.95 australia, but i didn't record this) 248pp. (chris) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus (1981)	london weekend television hutchinson group arrow books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaik still as-yet unattributed cover price £1.60 (no other prices) 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus (1980)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (none: typography upon a field of graduated horizontal lines on a silver ground) cover (d-j) price £6.50 on publisher's price gun label° 284pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards ° - possibly a lower price under this - ?
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Charles Sheffield - Sight Of Proteus (1978)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by clyde caldwell (signed with his symbol, credited) cover price $1.75 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Starswarm (2000)	jupiter #5, a sequel to #1: ''higher education'' charles sheffield, jerry pournelle (1996), q.v. for series listing, and links. (#2, #3 & #4 written by charles sheffield (1997, 1997, 1998), #6 by james p. hogan (1999), qq.v.)
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries (1979)	janissaries series #1: series written by roland green, jerry pournelle: (except #1 written by jerry pournelle): #1: ''janissaries'' (1979), (this illustrated short novel) #1a: ''janissaries (text only)'' (uk 1981), q.v. #2: ''janissaries: clan and crown'' (1982), q.v. #3: ''janissaries III: storms of victory'' (1987), q.v. aka ''janissaries: storms of victory'' (uk 1989), q.v.
ppint. 12th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries (Text Only) (1981)	bpcc or mpcc macdonald & co. publishers futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by peter andrew jones (signed paj 81 ©solar wind, uncredited) cover price £1.65, $5.50 australia 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. distinguish from near-identical reprintings on same isbn: 1984 second printing cover price £1.95 (?any overseas territories prices?) 1987 third printing cover price £2.50 1989 fourth printing cover price £3.50
ppint. 11th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries (1980)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, not first p/b edition cover art by enric torres-prat (unsigned, credited as enrich) ~70 b+w interior illustrations by luis bermejo (credited as bermejo) cover price $2.50 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indica publishing history includes line stating: this printing: march 1980 distinguish from at least four near-identical reprintings: 1982 presumédly second ace books mmpb printig isbn 0-441-38288-6 cover price $2.75 indicia publishing history states this printing: august 1982 ... ... ... ... 1984 stated fifth printing: isbn 0-441-38289-4 cover price $2.95 indicia publishing history states: first printing / june 1979 fifth printing / february 1984 1985 stated sixth printing isbn 0-441-38290-8 cover price ($3.95 canada) • $3.50 u.s. indicia publishing history states: sixth printing / july 1985 1986 stated seventh printing isbn 0-441-38291-6 cover price ($4.50 canada) • $3.50 u.s. (the next reported edition is baen books mmpb (1996), but i've never seen this edition, so can't add it)
ppint. 11th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries (1979)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with the trade p/b, and from the same collected signatures cover art by enric torres-prat (unsigned, credited as enrich) ~70 b+w interior illustrations by luis bermejo (credited as bermejo) cover price $9.95 344pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w illustrations etc, bound between covered boards

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