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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. 28th Jun 2023		Book Joanna Russ - And Chaos Died (1970)	Rated 7/10 this is a very well written, but always difficult to keep tracking, wildly uncommercial book; and it's probably the least popular of joanna russ' books: though it's a single story, it isn't a novel. it isn't a novel, because it doesn't - and couldn't, by its very nature - follow the rules-of-thumb that simplified longer works of fiction, making them more easily read and so more widely-saleable to people lacking the time or inclination to - for particular example - puzzle out and follow a story repeatedly jumping from one character's viewpoint to another's; ''and chaos died'' is confusing - and that's even though there is only one central character. she's a young woman finding it increasingly impossible to cope with the emotional and spiritual crowding of inner-city life, as she becomes ever more assailed by the needs, desires, hopes, lusts and hatreds of the strangers streaming by her in the constant crush - - she's becoming ever-increasingly sensitive mentally - to the point of feeling she may be going mad - - she's becoming a receiving telepath - - and she can't cut the constant bombardment of subconscious and conscious thoughts and emotions - - or even be certain which are her own. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
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
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Arash-felloren (1997)	headline books general p/b first printing, apparently first p/b edition cover art by mark harrison cover price £5.99 (?overseas territories prices?) 440pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Ibryen (1996)	headline books general p/b first printing, apparently first p/b edition cover art by mark harrison cover price £5.99 564pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Farnor (1993)	headline books general p/b first printing, not first p/b edition, was h/cvr & yp/b 1992 cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £5.99, $14.95 australia 568pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Valderen (1993)	headline books general p/b first printing, not first p/b edition; was h/cvr & yp/b 4/1993 cover art by mark harrison cover price £4.99 (? overseas territories prices?) 344pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. day of publication from publishers' inlaid review slip
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Dreamfinder (1992)	headline books general p/b first printing, not first p/b edition (was headline h/cvr & yp/b 1991) cover art by mark harrison cover price £5.99 596pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - Into Narsindal (1990)	headline books p/b first printing, first edition cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, credited on back cover) £4.99 (?overseas territories prices?) 540pp? (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising month not given, taken from locus distinguish from at least two reprintings by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line, with rising cover price; third printing £5.99
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - The Waking Of Orthlund (1989)	headline books p/b first printing, first edition cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.99 (overseas territories prices) 376pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus distinguish from at least two near-identical reprintings by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line, rising cover price; third printing cover price £5.99, $12.95 australia, $7.99 canada
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - The Fall Of Fyorlund (1989)	headline books p/b first printing, first edition cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £3.99 (? overseas territories prices?) 472pp. (check) including titles, indicia, b+w map, etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from at least three near-identical reprints by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line, and cover price rising to £5.99 by fourth printing
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Roger Taylor - The Call Of The Sword (1988)	headline books p/b first printing, first edition cover art by mark harrison (unsigned, uncredited, collected in ''dreamlands'' mark harrison (1990), q.v.) cover price £2.99, $9.95 australia, $12.99 new zealand some copies cover price $4.95 with the canadian distributor's name, general, above the price 288pp. including titles, indicia, b+w map etc, end pp. advertising month of publication not given, taken from locus
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Fred Hoyle - Element 79 (1968)	new american library signet imprint mmpb second through fifth printings share cat# Q5279, merkin-printed covers bearing unsigned, uncredited pictorial cover art, cover price 95¢ and are mostly undated; one states second printing, october, 1972
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Fred Hoyle - Element 79 (1968)	new american library signet imprint possibly simultaneous° mmpb first printing, first p/b edition sharing merkin-printed covers collection of fifteen short stories cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed cover price 60¢ 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed ° canadian-carcassed copies state first printing, may, 1969 which is probably in error for may, 1968
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book J. R. R. Tolkien - Η Συντροφιά Του Δαχτυλιδιού	the title in the english language title field should^W has been varied to ''the fellowship of the ring'' upon which, bookcat will automagically sort this translation correctly together with all the other editions
ppint. 26th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1973)	the first published date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1973 this warner paperback library 6/1973 mmpb is the first edition
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Night Winds (1979)	contents: undertow (novelette) whispers #10 (vol.3 #2), 8/1977 two suns setting (ntte) fantastic vol.235 #3, 5/1976, with one b+w illustration by jeff jones the dark muse (ntte) midnight sun vol.1 #2, 1975 raven's eyrie (novella) chacal vol.1 #2, summer/1977, with b+w illustration by jeff easley lynortis reprise (ntte) midnight sun #1, 1974 sing a last song of valdese (short story) chacal #1, winter/1976, with b+w illustration by jeff easley

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