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ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - King David's Spaceship (1982)	macdonald & co. (publishers) first h/cvr printing, first uk h/cvr edition n.b. published after the futura publications p/b first printing and first uk edition cover (d-j) art by peter andrew jones (signed paj81, shared from futura publications p/b edition) cover (d-j) price £6.95 340pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards aimed primarily at sales to the uk public library system, which was still a thriving public service - then
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - King David's Spaceship (1981)	a revised, greatly-expanded° rewrite of ''a spaceship for the king'' (1973), q.v. ° - very approximately twice the length of the earlier novel.
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - King David's Spaceship (1981)	futura publications p/b first printing, first uk edition, not first edition (first edition was simon & schuster merkin h/cvr (1/1981), ©1980, q.v.) cover art by peter andrew jones (signed paj81, uncredited) b+w maps by diane duane, jerry pournelle cover price £1.95, $6.95 australia 336pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - A Spaceship For The King (1973)	serialised in astounding vol. lxxxviii #4, #5, #6, 12/1972, 1/1973, 2/1973, part one: the cover story, parts one, two & three two b+w illustrations each, art by (frank) kelly freas, a considerably longer revised edition of the novel was published as ''king david's spaceship '' (1981), q.v.
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Jerry Pournelle - A Spaceship For The King (1973)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by (frank) kelly freas (signed, credited) b+w interior illustration unsigned, uncredited near-meaningless daw books collector no.42 cover price 95¢ 160pp. 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 first printing, february, 1973
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Larry Niven - The Mote In God's Eye (1976)	''the mote in god's eye'' was set in jerry pournelle's already extant codominium sf setting: (see his ''a spaceship for the king'' (1973), q.v., revised as ''king david's spaceship'' (1981) q.v.) it had a prequel short story by the two cut from its pages prior to reaching its published form: #0: reflex (short story) in ''there will be war'' eds. john f. carr, jerry pournelle (1983), q.v. #1: ''the mote in god's eye'' larry niven, jerry pournelle (1974), (this novel) #2: ''the gripping hand'' larry niven, jerry pournelle (1993), q.v. aka ''the most around murcheson's eye'' (1993 uk), q.v. #3: ''outies'' j. r. (jennifer) pournelle (2011)°, q.v. ° - this last was an authorised sequel written by jerry pournelle's daughter
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Larry Niven - The Mote In God's Eye (1976)	futura publications ltd. futura books first printing, first uk p/b cover art (unsigned, uncredited; seen suggested to be by peter ''paj'' jones, asked to do a foss-oid cover) cover price 95p (overseas territories prices?) 576pp? (check) including (i)-x pp. titles, indicia, dramatis personae, codominium chronology, etc, end pp.
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Larry Niven - The Mote In God's Eye (1975)	weidenfeld & nicolson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, prob'ly credited; quite possibly nick sutton) cover (d-j) price £4.50 540pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Joe Haldeman - The Forever War (1975)	weidenfeld & nicolson h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art by nick sutton (perspective block caps against a black/very dark blue night sky of stars) cover (d-j) price £3.50 240pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Best Science Fiction Stories Of Clifford D. Simak (1967)	faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first edition reprint collection of one novella, five novelettes and a short story cover (d-j) art unsigned, possibly credited, geometric mathematical design on red & black vertical bars cover (d-j) price 21/- 252pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 29th Jun 2023		Book Clifford D. Simak - Best Science Fiction Stories Of Clifford D. Simak (1972)	contents: founding father (short story) galaxy vol. 14 #1, 5/1957; galaxy strato bre #52, 7/1957 immigrant (novella) astounding vol. 53 #1, 3/1954; astounding atlas bre vol. x #8, 8/1954; both: five b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas new folks' home (novelette) analog vol. lxxi #5, 7/1963, three b+w illustrations by john schoenherr crying jag (ntte) galaxy vol. 18 #3, 2/1960; galaxy strato bre #78, 3/1960 all the traps of earth (ntte) f&sf vol.18 #3, 3/1960; f&sf atlas bre vol. 1 #7, 7/1960 lulu (ntte) galaxy vol.14 #2, 6/1957 neighbor (ntte) astounding vol. liii #4, 6/1954; astounding atlas bre vol. x #11, 11/1954
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book John Carnell - Weird Shadows From Beyond (1965)	author field should^W has been varied to editor
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book John Carnell - Weird Shadows From Beyond (1965)	contents: introduction (nf) john carnell danse macabre (short story) mervyn peake, science fantasy #61, 10/1963 blood offering (ss) john kippax, science fantasy #47, 6/1961 same time, same place (ss) mervyn peake, science fantasy #60, 8/1963 master of chaos (ss) michael moorcock, fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1964, one b+w illustration by virgil finlay wednesday's child (ss) william tenn, fantastic universe vol.4 #6, 1/1956 dial ''o'' for operator (novelette) robert presslie, science fantasy #27, 2/1958 the flowers of the forest (ss) brian w aldiss, science fantasy #24, 8/1957 without the ''the'' fresh guy (ss) e. c. tubb, science fantasy #29, 6/1958 the garden of paris (ss) eric (c.) williams (apparently original to this anthology) the graveyard reader (ss) theodore sturgeon, in ''the graveyard reader'' ed. groff conklin (1965)
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book John Carnell - Weird Shadows From Beyond (1965)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first edition almost entirely reprint anthology of one novelette and nine short stories, nf introduction by the editor cover art by josh kirby (unsigned, uncredited) (re-used, smaller, and credited, on the 1969 avon mmpb) (and is in dave langford's joshlist.html compiled mainly from josh kirby's records) cover price 3/6 160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Jack Vance - The Dragon Masters (1985)	granada publishing group second printing, also panther books second printing - but the first granada publishing group printing was the intervening mayflower books imprint 1972 uk p/b edition. (n.b: all are essentially from the same typesetting, suitably adjusted - and this panther/granada printing bears an isbn that incorporates cat# of the panther books ltd. 1967 edition - that granada publishing didn't publish, and don't credit, not the isbn of the mayflower books that they did publish - and do credit. . . - can this bibliographically-put-upon sf & fantasy fan and sometime editor please be allowed use of a time machine to kill some publishers' miscreant manglements - ?) cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand 128pp. including titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Jack Vance - The Dragon Masters (1967)	panther books ltd. p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited, uninspired greeny-bluey mostly out-of-focus photographic cover price 3/6 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Brother Assassin (1978)	grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by michael whelan (unsigned, full artwork if found prob'ly bears his m/w device, credited) cover price $1.95 240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to publishing history to distinguish from near-identical second mmpb printing on same isbn, cat#, same cover price, which states second ace printing: february 1979 and from fairly near-identical undated (believed 9/1981) third mmpb printing on new isbn: 0441-081265 cat# 08126 cover price $2.25 which bears indicia h publishing history printing number line 46809753 after the first two printings with dates undated (believed 1982, possibly early 1983) fourth printing on new isbn: 0-441-08127-3 cat# 08127 cover price $2.50 which bears indicia publishing history printing number line 4680975 after listing the first three printings with dates next known ace imprint mmpb printing: 7/1984 berkley publishing group charter communications ace science fiction sixth° mmpb printing: isbn: 0-441-08128-1° cover price ($2.95 canada) • $2.75 u.s. which bears no publishing history printing number line ° - and may indicate someone bringing the publishing history printing number and implicit cat# 08128 into line with history after the second printing was incorrectly given the same cat# and isbn as the first - but yr hmbl srppnt. wouldn't swear to it. . .
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Brother Berserker (1969)	macdonald & co. (publishers) first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art (line drawing on the hollow caps SF of the macdonald sf series uniform design d-js) cover price 21/- (check) 172pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Pawn To Infinity (1982)	author field should^W has been varied to editor, and co-author to co-editor
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Pawn To Infinity (1982)	contents: introduction the marvellous brass chess-playing automaton (novelette) gene wolfe, ''universe 7'' ed. terry carr (1977) unicorn variation (ntte) roger zelazny, iamsf vol.5 #4, 13/4/1981, cover story art by robert crawford, two b+w illustrations by jack gaughan the immortal game (short story) poul anderson, f&sf vol.6 #2, 2/1954 midnight by the morphy watch (ss) fritz leiber, if vol.22 #6, 7-8/1974; if tandem bre #4 (ignore: go by masthead vol-no & date as merkin original) unsound variations (novella) george r. r. martin, amazing vol.55 #5, 1/1982 a game of vlet (ss) joanna russ, f&sf vol.46 #2, 2/1974 without a thought (ss) fred saberhagen, if vol.12 #1, 1/1963 as ''fortress ship''; a berserker story a board in the other direction (ss) ruth berman, f&sf vol.46 #1, 1/1974 von goom's bandit (ss) victor contoski, chess review 4/1966 kokomu (ntte) daniel gilbert (apparently original to this anthology) moxon's master (ss) ambrose bierce, san francisco examiner 16/4/1899 rendezvous 2062 (poem) robert frazier (apparently original to this anthology) reflections on the looking-glass. an essay (nf) fred (alfred) stewart (original to this anthology)
ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Book Fred Saberhagen - Pawn To Infinity (1982)	berkley publishing group ace books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition themed, almost entirely reprint anthology of a novella, three novelettes, seven short stories, a poem, nf introduction by the editors and nf article by fred stewart, all chess- (&/or other-) game-based sf stories cover art (unsigned, uncredited - nicely suitably atmospheric; i'd like to know by whom) cover price $2.50 270pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Jun 2023		Book Marguerite Higgins - War In Korea (1952)	first published doubleday & co. in h/cvr sub-titled: ''the report of a woman combat correspondent'' 1951 first woman to be awarded the pulitzer prize for foreign correspondence, for coverage of the korean war
ppint. 27th Jun 2023		Book Frank Herbert - Hellstrom's Hive (1982)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by bruce pennington cover price £1.75 (no overseas territories prices) 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising i'm not sure transworld publishers ever reprinted their corgi books p/b edition: they definitely imported their merkin sister company's bantam books mmpb both before and after their own p/b's availability, distributing it with a uk price letterpress printed upon the cover, which uk price varied with the different merkin mmpb printings' importations
ppint. 27th Jun 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - The Man Who Came Back (1964)	john spencer & co. badger books imprint supernatural stories magazine supernatural special sub-series, bearing the supernatural stories magazine cat# SN88 cover art by henry fox (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Jun 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - Beyond The Veil (1964)	''john spencer'' & co. badger books imprint supernatural stories magazine / supernatural special # SN86 cover art by henry fox (signed, uncredited) cover price 2'6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 27th Jun 2023		Book R. L. Fanthorpe - Beyond The Veil (1964)	for quite a while, alternate issues of supernatural stories magazine were given the variant title of ''supernatural special'', but continued to be numbered in the magazine cat# sequence; these contained only one story, either a long novella or a short novel, and may reasonably be regarded as either or both issues of the magazine, and/or as novels standing in their own right.
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Whistler (1995)	headline books p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art by mark harrison cover price £5.99 (?overseas territories prices?) 576pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - The Call Of The Sword (1988)	the world of hawklan fantasy series: the chronicles of hawklan: #1: ''the call of the sword'' (1988), (this book) #2: ''the fall of fyorlund'' (1989), q.v. #3: ''the waking of orthlund'' (1989), q.v. #4: ''into narsindal'' (1990), q.v. #5 through #12 are all set after the above tetralogy: #5: ''dreamfinder'' (1991), q.v. the nightfall duology: #6: ''farnor'' (1992), q.v. #7: ''valderen'' (1993), q.v. #8: ''whistler'' (1994), q.v. #9: ''ibryen'' (1995), q.v. #10: ''arash-felloren'' (1996), q.v. #11: ''caddoran'' (1998), q.v. #12: ''the return of the sword'' (1999), q.v.
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - The Return Of The Sword (2000)	headline books headline feature sub-imprint general p/b first printing, apparently first p/b edition cover art by mark harrison cover price £5.99 (?overseas territories prices?) 476pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Caddoran (1998)	headline books headline feature sub-imprint general p/b first printing, apparently first p/b edition cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £5.99, $16.95 australia 412pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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