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ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Night Winds (1983)	warner books mmpb fourth printing reprint collection of a novella, four novelettes and a short story cover art by frank frazetta (signed, retained from earlier printings) canadian isbn 0-446-30813-7 (this and canadian price in red) cover price $2.95 u.s.a. ($3.75 can(ada)) 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Night Winds (1979)	hodder & stoughton coronet books p/b first printing, first uk edition reprint collection of a novella, four novelettes and a short story cover art by chris achilleos (may bear faint signature symbol, reprinted sans typography in ''sirens'' chris achilleos, nigel suckling (1986), q.v.) cover price 85p, 93½p republic of ireland, $2.50 australia, $2.75 new zealand 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Night Winds (1978)	warner books mmpb first printing, first edition reprint collection of a novella, four novelettes and a short story cover art by frank frazetta (signed, credited) cover price $1.95 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from undated near-identical second mmpb printing by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line which drops the digit ''1'', leaving ''2'' as the lowest remaining digit and from near-identical third mmpb printing likewise, which drops the ''2'', leaving ''3'' as the lowest
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Dark Crusade (1985)	warner books mmpb fourth printing cover art by frank frazetta retained from previous printings canadian isbn 0-446-30680-0 cover price $2.95 u.s.a. ($3.75 can(ada)) 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Dark Crusade (1981)	kane series #4: #1: ''darkness weaves'' (1970), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Dark Crusade (1979)	warner books mmpb second printing cover art by frank frazetta cover price $1.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical third warner books mmpb printing by reference to the indicia publishing history printing number line which drops digits 1 & 2, leaving the lowest remaining digit ''3''
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Dark Crusade (1981)	hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by nick bantock (aka and as by nick fox on ''teleclones'' pierre barbet (fleuve noir 1985), q.v.) cover price £1.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Bloodstone (1983)	warner books mmpb fifth printing by number line (accounting includes warner paperback library mmpb first printing) cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned, retained from earlier warner books mmpb printings) cover price $2.95 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Bloodstone (1980)	warner books mmpb undated° fourth printing by printing number line (accounting includes the warner paperback library mmpb as the first warner books mmpb printing) cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned, credited) cover price $1.95 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - save for copyright date; assigned date obtained by interpolation of cat# and comparison of cover prices of warner books mmpbs of this extent, and is ± a year
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Bloodstone (1977)	warner books mmpb first printing, stated second printing as accounting includes warner paperback library mmpb first printing° cover art by frank frazetta retained from warner paperback library mmpb but shot up and cropped cover price $1.50 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising distinguish from near-identical warner books mmpb second printing, ~1978, by reference to the indicia publishing history where it is accounted the third printing by printing number line°
ppint. 25th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Bloodstone (1976)	hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by les edwards (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the tourist's guide to transylvania'' stewart cowley (1981), q.v., entitled ''tribal guide'') cover price 85p, $2.75 australia, $2.75 new zealand (check all°) 308pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - distinguish from near-identical second printing 1977 by reference to indicia publishing history
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1980)	contents: death angel's shadow (poem) midnight sun 1974 (either first issue of the, or then turned into a magazine); reprinted in sorcerer's apprentice #3, summer/1979; this is not in the warner mmpbs reflections for the winter of my soul (novella) (original to this collection) cold light (novella) (ditto) mirage (novelette) (ditto)
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1980)	hodder & stoughton coronet books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition almost entirely original kane collection of a poem (the reprint item), two novellas and a novelette cover art by nick bantock aka nick fox (unsigned; attribution from ''the tourist's guide to transylvania'' stewart cowley (1981), q.v., where it's entitled ''horned troll'') cover price 95p (? overseas territories prices?) 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1978)	kane series #2: #1: ''darkness weaves'' (1970), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1983)	warner books warner imprint mmpb second printing, given as third printing as the accounting includes the warner paperback library first mmpb printing collection of two novellas and a novelette cover art by frank frazetta retained from the 12/1978 printing, severely cropped top and bottom by new cover design's black bands bearing main typography isbn canada 0-446-30750-5 cover price $2.95 (u.s.a.) (canadian isbn) $3.75 (can(ada)) 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Death Angel's Shadow (1978)	warner books imprint mmpb first printing, but not first mmpb edition of ''death angel's shadow'', given as second as the warner paperback library mmpb first printing is included in publishing history accounting collection of two novellas and a novelette cover art by frank frazetta b+w interior illustration by john f. mayer retained from the warner paperback library mmpb printing cover price $1.95 208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Battle Circle Trilogy (1984)	omnibus edition of the battle circle trilogy (1968 - 1972 - 1975), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Battle Circle Trilogy (1984)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first omnibus edition printing, first thus uk cover art (unsigned) (possibly by geoff taylor, but this is not an attribution) cover price £3.95, $6.95 australia, $7.95 new zealand 544pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical reprinting(s) on same isbn; two of the cover prices differ on the 1985 reprinting: $8.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand there's at least one later printing bearing different cover art credited to stephen lavis, and bearing a new corgi books imprint isbn; but i've no record of having seen this, let alone stocked it.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Blue Adept (1983)	apprentice adept series #2: #1: ''split infinity'' (1980), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Blue Adept (1983)	granada publishing group granada imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by tim white cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand 384pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between near-identical reprintings 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, ... under the same isbn. by 1986 the imprint changes to grafton books, reflecting the sale of granada publishing ltd. to the collins group, whereupon the first printings are retrospectively claimed for that imprint.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Juxtaposition (1983)	the apprentice adept series #3: #1: ''split infinity'' (1980), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 24th Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Juxtaposition (1983)	granada publishing group granada imprint p/b first printing first uk edition cover art by tim white cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand 424pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between near-identical printings 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, ... all on the same isbn; by 1986 the imprint changes to grafton books, reflecting the sale of granada publishing to wm. collins sons/the collins group, whereupon the first printings are retrospectively claimed for that imprint.
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book Karl Edward Wagner - Dark Crusade (1976)	warner books mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by frank frazetta (unsigned - painting likely is signed, credited) cover price $1.50 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Split Infinity (1983)	1. the apprentice adept series (part one): aka the split infinity trilogy (uk): 1#1: ''split infinity'' (1980) (this novel) 1#2: ''blue adept'' (1981), q.v. 1#3: ''juxtaposition'' (1982), q.v. omnibus of the trilogy: O1: ''the apprentice adept'' (1983), q.v. aka ''double exposure'' (book club edition 1982 for sale only to doubleday book club members) 2. (the apprentice adept series part two:) aka the phaze and proton tetralogy: (1#4) 2#1: ''out of phaze'' (1987), q.v. (1#5) 2#2: ''robot adept'' (1988), q.v. (1#6) 2#3: ''unicorn point'' (1989), q.v. (1#7) 2#4: ''phaze doubt'' (1990), q.v. the division into two parts is largely - though not entirely - a construct arising from the change in publishers after 1#3; there would be an arguable case for regarding the two as one heptology. different extended episodes in the over-all story occur in an apparently fantasy setting, with creatures of fantasy, but the over-all story occurs in a science fictional planetary system.
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book Piers Anthony - Split Infinity (1983)	granada publishing group granada imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by tim white cover price £1.95, $5.95 australia, $5.95 new zealand 384pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book Theodore Sturgeon - The Synthetic Man (1978)	harcourt brace jovanovich jove books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition acknowledges seven previous - pyramid books - printings, which typesetting this successor imprint uses, suitably emended cover art unsigned cover price $1.50 176pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book E. Everett Evans - Man Of Many Minds (1953)	there was apparently a sequel, ''alien minds'' e. everett evans (fantasy press 1955); but yr hmbl srppnt.'s never seen a copy of this.
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book E. Everett Evans - Man Of Many Minds (1968)	pyramid books mmpb second printing, with new cover art by gray morrow (signed, credited on back cover) cover price 60¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book E. Everett Evans - Man Of Many Minds (1959)	pyramid books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by (frank) kelly freas cover price 35¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 23rd Jun 2023		Book E. Everett Evans - Man Of Many Minds (1953)	fantasy press, reading, pennsylvania h/cvr first printing, first edition so stated nf introduction by e. e. smith cover (d-j) art by mel hunter (signed) cover (d-j) price $3.00 224pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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