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ppint. 10th Jul 2023		Book James Tiptree Jr. - Crown Of Stars (1990)	cover price $4.95 u.s. ($5.95 can(ada))
ppint. 10th Jul 2023		Book Brian Aldiss - The Canopy Of Time (1971)	contents: author's note (nf) brian w. aldiss three's a cloud (short story) new worlds #79, 1/1959 as ''the unbeaten track'' all the world's tears (ss) nebula sf #21, 5/1957 who can replace a man? (ss) infinity vol.3 #5, 6/1958 as ''but who can replace a man?'' blighted profile (ss) science fantasy #29, 6/1958, revised 1964(1963?) (then re-written in 1985(1979?)) judas danced (ss) star science fiction (#1), 1/1958 as ''judas dancing''; science fantasy #27, 2/1958 o ishrail! (ss) new worlds #48, 4/1957 as ''oh ishrail!'' incentive (ss) new worlds #78, 12/1958 gene hive (ss) nebula sf #30, 5/1958; nebula sf (us) #?, 9/1958: in both, as ''journey to the interior'', with two b+w illustrations by atom; aka ''gene-hive'' (i.e. hyphenated) secret of a mighty city (ss) f&sf vol.14 #5, 5/1958 as ''have your hatreds ready'' they shall inherit (ss) nebula sf #32, 7/1958; nebula sf (us) #?, 11/1958 visiting amoeba (novelette) authentic #82, 7/1957 as ''what triumphs?''
ppint. 10th Jul 2023		Book Brian Aldiss - Space, Time And Nathaniel (1971)	contents: foreword (nf) brian w. aldiss (original to the 4square p/b edition (1966)) introduction (nf) brian w. aldiss t (nebula sf #18, 11/1956) our kind of knowledge (new worlds #36, 6/1955) psyc!ops (new worlds #49, 7/1956) conviction (new worlds #51, 9/1956) not for an age (the observer, 9/1/1955) (reprinted in ''a. d. 2500: the observer competition prize-winning stories 1954'' ed. anonymously (1955), q.v.) the shubshub race (apparently original to this collection) criminal record (science fantasy #9, 7/1954) the failed men (science fantasy #18, 5/1956) supercity (apparently original to this collection) there is a tide (new worlds #44, 2/1956) pogsmith (authentic #57, 5/1955) outside (new worlds #31, 1/1955) panel game (new worlds #42, 12/1955) dumb show (nebula sf #19, 12/1956)
ppint. 10th Jul 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (2017)	hachette uk orion publishing group gollancz b-format p/b first printing, not first uk p/b two introductions: 4pp. by china miéville (new), followed by ursula k. le guin's 4pp.1976 introduction cover art by vincent chong (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £8.99 (no other prices) 336pp. including (i)-xviii pp. titles, indicia, two nf introductions etc, 18 end pp: ''the gethenian calendar and clock'' (nf within f) ursula k. le guin (1974), 1p. brief uncredited biographical note, 3pp. advertising interspersed amongst 13 blank pp. (re-check) the cover has a strange matte effect finish all over month and day of publication not given: taken from locus #678
ppint. 9th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory (1983)	#2 of 2: serialised in galaxy vol.38 #7, 9/1977, cover story, art and two b+w illustrations by stephen fabian, vol.38 #8, 10/1977, cover story, art and five b+w illustrations by stephen fabian: #1: ''high justice'' (1977), q.v.
ppint. 9th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory (1983)	berkley publishing group ace books mmpb fourth printing, mis-stated the third printing in indicia the new cat# would be correct for the third printing, but that was 9/1980 and 21885 new cover design, and reverts to the first two printings' cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris) cover price $2.75 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising adds indicia publishing history line immediately below first ace edition / july 1978 third printing: december 1983 distinguish from ace books near-identical 1986 correctly identified fifth mmpb printing, which differs: isbn 0-441-22218-8 cat# 22218 (which would have been correct for the fourth printing) cover price: ($3.95 canada) • $2.95 u.s. 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia replaces line immediately below modified ace edition / july 1978 with fifth printing / november 1986
ppint. 9th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory (1980)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb unstated third printing, with new cover art by david plourde (signed plourde, though miscredited to boris; new cover design) cover price $2.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 9th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - Exiles To Glory (1978)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by boris vallejo (signed boris, credited to boris) cover price $1.75 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical 1979 second printing with same cover art (credit dropped) which differs: isbn 0-441-22216-1 cat# 22216 (correctly increased by one from that of the first printing) cover price $1.95 adds indicia publishing history line stating second printing, march 1979
ppint. 9th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - High Justice (1980)	#1 of two: #1: ''high justice'' (1977), (this non fix-up/collection) #2: ''exiles to glory'' (1978), q.v. omnibus edition of #1 & #2: #O: ''exile - and glory'' (2008), q.v.
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - High Justice (1980)	macdonald & co. futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by chris moore (unsigned, uncredited, collected in ''parallel lines'' peter elson, chris moore (1981), q.v.) cover price £1.25, $4.50 australia 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 1984 second printing, which differs: cover price £1.95 publishing history adds line stating reprinted 1984 near-identical 1987 third printing, which differs: isbn, uk price now in the white bar-code box on the back cover, bar-code number 9780708 880678 00250 cover price £2.50
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - High Justice (1980)	pocket books mmpb second printing, with new cover art by attila hejja cover price $1.95 224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising publication date taken from locus #230, 2/1980 refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical third printing, which differs: cover price $2.25 indicia publishing history printing number line has lowest remaining digit 3
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - High Justice (1977)	pocket books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition reprint non fix-up / collection of novelettes and two short stories cover art by ed (edward) soyka (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.75 224pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising front cover of canadian-carcassed copies bear a small white maple leaf, states published in canada refer also to indicia publishing history to check carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state pocket book edition published may, 1977
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1970)	paperback library mmpb second printing with striking new cover art (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from sphere books second printing; i attribute it to michael leonard as matching covers known to be by him very closely) (seen said to be by frank frazetta (without any justifying reference): extremely atypically-styled for frazetta, and to be by but unsigned by him by this date is also highly unlikely)) cover price 75¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1968)	paperback library mmpb first printing, first merkin edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, believed to be by jeff jones (check) cover price 75¢ 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1985)	bpc by now prob'ly macdonald & co. (publishers) h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition approximately simultaneous with the macdonald/futura p/b first printing with which it shares° cover (d-j) art by mick van houten (unsigned, uncredited; shared with p/b edition) cover (d-j) price £8.95 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards ° announced for simultaneous publication, the macdonald h/cvr editions frequently trailed the futura p/bs during this era of macdonald / futura / orbit
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1985)	macdonald & co. publishers futura books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition approximately simultaneous with the macdonald & co. publishers h/cvr edition with which it shares cover art by mick van houten cover price £1.95 (overseas territories prices?) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising identified as book four in the atlantis saga, but this is variable: is book three if book two is not split
ppint. 8th Jul 2023		Book Robert Silverberg - Valley Beyond Time (1973)	contents: introduction (nf) robert silverberg valley beyond time (novella) science fiction adventures (us) vol.2 #2, 12/1957, one b+w illustration by ed emshwiller; science fantasy #27, 2/1958 the flame and the hammer (nlla) science fiction adventures (us) vol.1 #6, 9/1957 the wages of death (ntte) if vol.8 #5, 8/1958, one b+w illustration by virgil finlay; science fiction adventures (uk) #20, 5/1961, cover story, art by brian lewis spacerogue (ntte) infinity vol.4 #2, 11/1958 as by webber martin, cover story, and one b+w illustration also by ed emshwiller
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1976)	white lion h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price (c. £3) (parts of d-j flaps not visible on the library laminated rebinding seen) 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards white lion publishers were primarily (though not solely) a supplier of books to the uk public libraries the budgets of the uk public libraries were progressively cut - and then the single largest local authority, and with it, its excellent library service, was destroyed as a matter of doctrinaire right-wing idiocy: white lion seems to've ceased publishing fiction hardcover reprints during 1977 in consequence, and possibly shortly after ceased to exist.
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book Jane Gaskell - The City (1976)	tandem books ltd. tandem imprint p/b first printing, not first p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; probably by dave pether, the artist for at least two of tandem's cija p/bs cover price 45p, 48p eire, 50c malta 192p. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising an isbn is trivially derivable from the sbn, but the cover bears the nine-digit sbn
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book H. P. Lovecraft - Omnibus 3: The Haunter Of The Dark (1990)	first published year is wrong and should be corrected to 1985: ''h. p. lovecraft omnibus 3: the haunter of the dark: and other tales'' was first published in 1985 this collection is some two hundred pages longer than panther books' 1963 cat#1474, ''the haunter of the dark and other tales of terror'' (first: victor gollancz h/cvr 1951), q.v., containing all of the earlier collection plus one novella, two novelettes and a short story; this 200pp. difference is more than long enough to be an entire p/b on its own - so this is significantly different a book, as well as a different title!
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book H. P. Lovecraft - Omnibus 3: The Haunter Of The Dark (1990)	wm collins sons grafton books imprint p/b second printing, third printing including the 1985 granada publishing group panther books imprint first printing, first edition of this ''h. p. lovecraft omnibus 3: the haunter of the dark and other stories'' reprint collection of three novellas, seven novelettes, four short stories, nf introduction by august derleth cover art by tim white unsigned, credited on back cover, collected in ''chiaroscuro'' tim white (1988), q.v. cover price £4.50, $10.99 australia, $15.99 new zealand 544pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - Blind Voices (1982)	penguin group penguin imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by peter goodfellow (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.75, $4.95 australia 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 7th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - Blind Voices (1979)	berkley publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by david plourde (signed, shared from first edition h/cvr d-j where it is credited) cover price $1.95 248pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising artist's signature is visible because a slightly different view of the cover art is used on the mmpb: it's just off the lower edge of the h/cvr d-j.
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - Blind Voices (1979)	sidgwick & jackson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art (none; dark blue typography on silver field with graduated dark blue horizontal lines) cover (d-j) price £5.95 (the uk science fiction book club offered s&j copies to members at £4.50) 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards unbound collected signatures later assembled together with like of ''the ultimax man'' keith laumer (also sidgwick & jackson 1978) in ''science fiction special 37'' ed. anon. (sidgwick & jackson h/cvr 1981), q.v.
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - Blind Voices (1978)	berkley publishing group berkley putnam h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by david plourde (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $8.95 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards day of publication from inlaid publishers review copy slip distinguish from near-identical doubleday science fiction book club edition: cover (d-j) bears no price on front flap, instead states book club edition cat# 5438 on d-j back flap 184pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound between covered boards
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories (1979)	Review this seems to be the only book published by earthlight publishers - but what a book! almost all the fiction tom reamy wrote - one remained unpublished by the editor to whom he'd submitted it for first publication, so couldn't be included without being withdrawn - excluding only two°, plus his only novel, ''blind voices'', which was published ''completed, but unfinished'' (he was still polishing it) posthumously, after the heart attack which killed him.° beautifully-written, oftimes ominous, threatening, frequently horror-inducing, fantasy; earth-set but not earthbound, and well worthy of being published in such a beautiful edition. ° - missing are: jenny's friends (short story) fantastic worlds (fanzine) vol.2 #2, spring 1954 sting! (short play) in ''six science fiction plays'' ed. roger elwood (1976), q.v. m is for the million things (short story) in ''new voices 4: the john w. campbell award nominees'' ed. george r. r. martin (1981), q.v. potiphee, petey and me (novelette) (sold to harlan ellison for ''the last dangerous visions'' (unpublished); eventually appeared in ''under the hollywood sign'' tom reamy (750-copy limited edition h/cvr 2023), q.v.°° (°° - this 2023 collection is sfaik the complete novellas, novelettes, and short stories bar one (jenny's friends), compilation - it incorporates all of ''san diego lightfoot sue and other stories'' - but is considerably scarcer, and liable to be pricey - it bears a $50.00 cover price. . .) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories (1983)	contents: enter the departing shadow (nf) harlan ellison twilla (novelette) f&sf vol.47'#3, 9/1974 under the hollywood sign (ntte) in ''orbit 17'' ed. damon knight (1975), q.v. beyond the cleft (ntte) in ''nova 4'' ed. harry harrison (1974), q.v. san diego lightfoot sue (ntte) f&sf vol.49 #2, 8/1975 dinosaurs (ntte) in ''new dimensions 6'' ed. robert silverberg (1976), q.v. the sweetwater factor (short story) in ''lone star universe'' eds. geo w. proctor, steven utley (1976), q.v. the mistress of windraven (ss) chacal 1, winter/1976 the detweiler boy (ntte) f&sf vol.52 #4, 4/1977 insects in amber (ntte) f&sf vol.54 #1, 1/1978 waiting for billy star (ss) shayol #2, 2/1978 2076: blue eyes (ss) shayol #3, summer 1979
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories (1983)	berkley publishing group ace books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition collection of a novella, six novelettes, four short stories, nf article by harlan ellison cover art by david heffernan (signed, credited) cover price $2.95 336pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue And Other Stories (1979)	earthlight publishers hcvr first printing, limited first edition, 100 copies in cloth-covered slipcase kansas city, missouri cover (d-j) art by diane dillon, leo dillon interior illustratios including endpapers' decoration by diane dillon, leo dillon cover (d-j) price $14.95 slip-cased limited edition price $25.00 264pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, introduction etc, bound in decorated endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 6th Jul 2023		Book Alan Dean Foster - Orphan Star (1979)	new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover) (fossoid, doubtless on art director's direction) cover price 85p, 93½p republic of ireland, $2.95 australia, $2.80 new zealand 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. excerpt from ''the end of the matter'' (pip & flinx #3), advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second printing which differs: adds line stating reprinted july 1983 cover price £1.50 third printing which differs: adds line third impression 1988 cover price £2.50

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