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ppint.
5th Jul 2023
Book
Piers Anthony - Out Of Phaze (1989)
hodder & stoughton new english library imprint h/cvr first printing, first uk edition
simultaneous with yp/b card covers bind-up first printing from same signatures (0-450-42930-X £6.95)

cover (d-j) art by chris achilleos (signed with his a in a circle, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price £11.95
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

month not given, taken from locus

ppint.
5th Jul 2023
Book
James Hamilton-Paterson - Empire Of The Clouds (2010)
third printing bought recently online to give as a present: vg+ in vg+ d-j: £3.49 including postage -
since a new p/b would be =/~100% more than this, worth looking out for if you've any friend as'd appreciate it - or would like it, yourself.

ppint.
5th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter (1954)
the thames publishing co. kingston library imprint h/cvr first printings, first edition
it exists with both red and blue cloth-covered boards and colour plate frontispiece:
no priority known

cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price 3s 6d net
216pp? (check in the morning) including titles, indicia etc, bound between cloth-covered boards

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Tim Sullivan - The Martian Viking (1991)
the hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (signed walotsky, credited)
cover price (canada $4.25) • u.s. $3.50
248pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Tim Sullivan - Destiny's End (1988)
the hearst corporation avon books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by ron walotsky (credited)
cover price (canada $3.95) • u.s. $2.95
316pp?(check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Tim Sullivan - Lords Of Creation (1992)
the hearst corporation avon books avonova imprint mmpb first printing, first edition

cover art by joe devito (signed, credited
cover price (canada $4.99) u.s. $3.99
(??)256pp. (check) including titles, indicia, c. 12 end pp. advertising ? appendices & advertising ?

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Robert Silverberg - Moonferns And Starsongs (1971)
contents:

a happy day in 2381 (short story) in ''nova one'' ed. harry harrison (1970) q.v., an urban monads story
after the myths went home (ss) f&sf vol.37 #5, 11/1969
passengers (ss) ''orbit four'' ed. damon knight (1968), q.v.
to be continued (ss) astounding vol.57 #3, 5/1956; astounding bre vol. xii #10, 10/1956, both: one b+w illustration by frank kelly freas; astounding bre vol. xiii #4, 4/1957 no illustration
nightwings (novella); galaxy vol.27 #2, 9/1968, with three b+w illustrations by jack gaughan; collected in (slight)fix-up novel ''night wings'' robert silverberg (1969), q.v.
we know who we are (ss) amazing vol.44 #2, 7/1970, one b+w illustration by jeff jones
the pleasure of their company (novelette) ''infinity one'' ed. robert silverberg (1970), q.v. with ''our'' not ''their''
the songs of summer (ss) (original) science fiction stories vol.7 #2, 9/1956, one b+w illustration by frank kelly freas; authentic #82, 7/1957
a man of talent (ss) ''new dreams this morning'' ed. james blish (1966); (rewrite of ''the man of talent'' future sf #31, winter/1956-7; science fantasy #24, 8/1957)
collecting team (ss) super science fiction vol.1 #1, 12/1956, as ''catch 'em all alive!'', two b+w illustrations by frank kelly freas; authentic #81, 6/1957 as ''collecting team''
going down smooth (ss) galaxy vol.27 #1, 8/1968, the cover story, being commissioned to fit the cover art by vaughn bodé, two b+w illustrations by brock

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles And The Black Peril
the thames publishing co. regent classics imprint h/cvr undated first printing, first thus
text revised revised from that of the first edition ''the black peril'' (john hamilton 1935), q.v.

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited
cover (d-j) price (none printed)
258pp. (re-check) including ten unnumbered pp. titles, indicia (ha!) etc. counted as eight pp, two blank end pp, sewn in signatures but bound without endpapers between deep red cloth-covered boards, first leaf of first signature and last leaf of last signature being glued onto the inside cover boards over the book hinges and the boards' cloth covering.

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles (1967)
thank-you for the dust-jacket, etc. images, graham7.

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Takes The Case (1952)
hodder & stoughton h/cvr first printing, first edition

collection of eight special air police case stories plus a world war II short story

cover (d-j) art by stead (leslie stead, signed and credited as stead), as are the
nine unsigned b+w interior illustrations (one is a title page decoration used in more than one book)
cover (d-j) price 7/6
192pp. including six pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 3 blank end pp, sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between deep-red cloth-covered boards

first edition publishing history states first printed 1952

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Of The Special Air Police (1953)
published in regent classics by xmas 1953, as at least one copy bought and given then as a present.
the month and year of publication are given on the front of what would have been the front fly page had the book been made with normal endpapers, but is instead glued to the inside of the front board.°

° i've read that this may be made visible temporarily by spraying with isopropyl alcohol, aka isopropanol, aka rubbing alcohol - which should be done in a well-ventilated space - ditto if using stamp collectors' benzene (n.b. must not be inhaled, either of them; benzene should be washed off skin immediately) will presumably work as well.

n.b. the print will be visible - and legible - temporarily, in mirror image until the alcohol evaporates out.

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Of The Special Air Police (1953)
the thames publishing co. london regent classics imprint h/cvr first printings, first edition
there are four known variants, two with red cloth, two with blue cloth-covered boards:
the first printing is red cloth-covered, and has a colour plate frontispiece

cover (d-j) art by jace m torneli ((sp?) (not very legibly-)signed, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price (none printed)
256pp? (re-check!) eight unnumbered pp. implicity counted as four, including titles, indicia (ha!), table-of-contents etc, sewn in signatures -
- but bound without fly endpapers, the first leaf of the first signature and the last leaf of the last signature being glued into the inside of the boards over the book hinges and the inside edges of the boards' red cloth covering.

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Sees It Through (1951)
geoffrey cumberlege, publisher to the university h/cvr first printing 1941, first edition
oxford university press
amen house
london e.c.4

first published 1941
reprinted 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952
i.e. fifth printing

cover (d-j) art: all geoffrey cumberlege/oup biggles books later printings share this uniform design d-j
six b+w interior illustrations by alfred sindall (unsigned, credited)
cover (d-j) price
256pp. including eight unnumbered unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, index of illustrations etc, 2 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between leaf-green cloth-covered boards

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles Flies East (1951)
geoffrey cumberlege, publisher to the university h/cvr first published 1935
oxford university press

reprinted 1937, 1941, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952
i.e. seventh printing

cover (d-j) art uniform design on all geoffrey cumberlege / oup h/cvr later printings of the biggles books
cover (d-j) price
266pp. including 10pp. titles, indicia, nf forward by the author, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 3 end pp: 1 blank p, 2pp. glossary of rfc terms and expressions used in this book with which readers may, or may not, be familiar (nf, uncredited), bound with endpapers between leaf-green cloth-covered boards

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
W. E. Johns - Biggles En Zijn Makkers (1962)
het spectrum prisma juniores p/b first printing, 1959

cover art by port (signed)

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
R. L. Fanthorpe - Android (1962)
note spelling of surname carefully:

- this variant is/was one of the shy, self-effacing r. l. fanthorpe's many pseudonyms

ppint.
4th Jul 2023
Book
R. L. Fanthorpe - Android (1962)
john spencer & co. badger books imprint p/b first printing, first edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
John Norman - Savages Of Gor (1987)
daw books mmpb fourth printing by publishing history printing number line 4 5 6 7 8 9

cover art by ken w. kelly
near-meaningless daw books collector no.472
cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95
336pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp advertising

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
John Norman - Savages Of Gor (1982)
daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art by ken w. kelly (unsigned sfacs though the painting likely is, credited)
near-meaningless daw books collector no.472
cover price $3.95 (canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel)
cover price $3.50 (wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution)
336pp. (check) including six pp. titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

as per signet & daw mmpb simultaneous first printings from late 1980 to early 1992 generally, the initial digit ''1'' is dropped from the printing number line of the canadian-carcassed copies, formally identifying them as the second printing; no real-world temporal priority in publication is necessarily indicated

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (1952)
first published date of 1962 is just plain wrong and should be corrected to 1952

this 15/9/1952 geoffrey bles h/cvr edition is the first edition and it was published in 1952, not in 1962.

edit 13/8/2023: and now at last corrected

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (1952)
geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 10/6d
224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Last Battle (1956)
the bodley head h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 9/6d
186pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew (1955)
the bodley head h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 8/6d
186pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Horse And His Boy (1954)
geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 10/6d
200pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Silver Chair (1953)
geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 10/6d
220pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - Prince Caspian (1951)
geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 10/-
196pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
3rd Jul 2023
Book
C. S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (1950)
geoffrey bles h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by pauline baynes
b+w interior illustrations also by pauline baynes
cover (d-j) price 8/6d
172pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

ppint.
2nd Jul 2023
Book
Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1960)
ballantine books mmpb third printing, with new cat#, new (and rather poor)

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 35¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

indicia publishing history lines give dates for all three printings to date

ppint.
2nd Jul 2023
Book
Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1965)
ballantine books mmpb fourth printing

cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from third printing
cover price 59¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
2nd Jul 2023
Book
Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1968)
ballantine books mmpb fifth printing

cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from third printing
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising


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