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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
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1969)	ballantine books mmpb sixth printing check title page for presence/absence of stament, ''an intext publisher'' cover art (unsigned, uncredited; believed to be by john berkey on stylistic grounds) cover price 75¢ 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1984)	the next uk p/b edition of which i was aware was the b-format gollancz/millennium p/b which, at £6.99, seemed greatly overpriced then, and yr hmbl srppnt. did not stock it.
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1984)	penguin imprint p/b fifth printing with new cover art by peter goodfellow (attribution taken from penguin science fiction covers website) cover price 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1979)	penguin imprint p/b third printing, with new cover art by adrian chesterman (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 75p, $2.50 australia 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1973)	penguin imprint p/b second printing with new isbn incorporating previous cat#, new cover art by david pelham cover price 30p 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1972)	victor gollancz ltd. h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (none, typographical cover in black and magenta on ''gollancz yellow'' field) cover (d-j) price £1.75 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1965)	penguin books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art by victor vasarely (unsigned, credited as detail from folklore planetario by ~ on back cover) cover price 3'6 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given in the publishing history, taken from a penguin sf books website
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1961)	cat# is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to R499 digit books' cat# prefix letter R indicates the cover price of 2'6d digit books did not use the letter F as a cat# prefix
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1961)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b second printing with new cover art by brian lewis (signed, uncredited) cat# R499 cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1960)	brown, watson ltd. digit books imprint p/b undated first printing°, first uk p/b edition cover art (unsigned, uncredited; re-used from ½ ace double D-362 ''the 100th millennium'' john brunner (1959), q.v., attributed to ed valigursky in the ace image library) cover price 2'- 160pp. including titles, indicia, end pp. advertising ° - ascribed year of publication presumably taken from donald h. tuck
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book [no Editor Listed] - Kalle Ankas Pocket: Knivigt, Kalle! (1990)	lorangrecords: thank-you for the advice: it is possible for a magazine to be published in hardcover/pocketbook/paperback/mass-market paperback formats; and i'm definitely not familiar enough with these to know whether they constituted - or were turned into - a monthly (or bimonthly, or quarterly or whatever) magazine, or no; so i left it open.
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1955)	william heinemann ltd. h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited cover (d-j) price 10/6d 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 2nd Jul 2023		Book Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1953)	ballantine books mmpb first printing, simultaneous first edition: printed 4/1953, published 5/1953 simultaneous with ballantine books h/cvr first printing, cat# H 21 reportedly misprinted on d-j as H 2 includes ''time for a change: a statement on science fiction'' (nf editorial) signed ballantine books, inc. cover art by richard powers (unsigned sfaics, credited; shared with h/cvr d-j) cover price 35¢ 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, editorial etc, end pp. refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from 6/1953 second printing which adds note of reprinting to publishing history (date from 3/1960 ballantine books mmpb third printing)
ppint. 1st Jul 2023		Book Alan Dean Foster - For Love Of Mother-not (1992)	severn house publishers first printing, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by martin buchan (unsigned, credited on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price £13.00, $18.00 256pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp., bound between covered boards copies distributed in the u.s. from one month later reported to've had the uk & merkin cover prices swapped, uk£ at bottom of d-j front flap, us$ at top; this not - yet - seen by yr hmbl srppnt.
ppint. 1st Jul 2023		Book Alan Dean Foster - For Love Of Mother-not (1983)	pip & flinx series #0: more than a decade later-written prequel to: #1: ''the tar-aiym krang'' (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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