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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 15th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1977)	grosset & dunlap(?) charter communications, inc. ace books imprint undated° mmpb fourth printing grosset & dunlap bought ace books and (all?) charter communications' book-publishing interests 1977 cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.75 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - save for 1967 copyright date; this printing may've been 1978; it was before cat# 10704's printing
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1984)	berkley publishing group ace imprint mmpb 5/1984 printing (tenth printing / may 1984, so stated) cover art by alex ebel (signed, retains cover redesign from eighth printing) cover price ($2.95 canada) • $2.75 u.s. 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1980)	berkley publishing group ace imprint mmpb eighth printing° by printing history number line 8 0 9 the berkley-putnam publishing group bought ace books from grosset & dunlap - or all of g&d(?) in 1980 and, inter alia, also attempted to bring the publishing histories into line with available records of reality cover art by alex ebel (signed, retained from earlier printings, chopped to fit major cover redesign) cover price $2.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1978)	grosset & dunlap charter communications undated° ace imprint mmpb grosset & dunlap bought ace books (and all of charter communications book publishing interests) 1977 cover art by alex ebel (signed, retained from 1974 ace books mmpb printing) cover price $1.95 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - save for copyright date; this printing may've been 1979; it was after cat# 10703's printing
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1974)	charter communications, inc. ace books imprint mmpb undated° third printing with new cover art by alex ebel (signed, uncredited) cover price $1.25 224pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising the increased pagination indicates that the novel's text has been re-set in larger point-size type ° - date taken from locus #167, 11/1974
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1971)	ace books mmpb undated° second printing, still states first book publication on front cover cover art by jack gaughan (retained from first edition ace mmpb) cover price 60¢ 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising ° - near-identical with first edition, the five-digit system cat# allocated this printing implies (does not prove) stocks of G-626 remained and were deemed to've been (re-)numbered 10700
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1971)	granada publishing group panther books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover bears nine-digit sbn; later printings add the derived isbn given above, later drop this sbn cover art by chris foss (collected in ''21st century foss'' (1978), q.v., entitled ''ground train passing abandoned working'') cover price 35p, $1.20 australia, $1.20 new zealand 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising near-identical 1976 second printing differs: chris foss is credited on the back cover cover price 50p, $1.50 australia, $1.70 new zealand, $1.75 canada indicia publishing history adds line, reprinted 1976 near-identical 1978 third printing differs: cover price 75p, $2.50 australia, $2.50 new zealand, $2.25 canada indicia publishing history adds 1978 to reprintings near-identical 1980 fourth printing differs: cover price 95p, $3.50 australia, $3.50 new zealand indicia publishing history adds 1980 to reprintings, here and elsewhere starts to replace panther with granada, but front cover retains panther
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1971)	victor gollancz first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition cover (d-j) art (none: black & magenta typography on ''gollancz yellow'' with title ''zoomed'' back & up) cover (d-j) price £1.60 192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - Always Coming Home (1986)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition also available boxed together with the associated audiocassette rrp £40.00 cover (d-j) art (none really: primarily typographical cover on a deep red field) cover (d-j) price £10.95 528pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (1975)	granada publishing group panther books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition sub-title is not on the cover cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (unsigned, painting probably signed, credited on back cover) cover price 75p 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia, 2pp. b+w maps of antares and urras, etc. refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish between ten near-identical printings (1975, 1976, 1977 75p, 1978 95p, 1979 95p, 1981 £1.50, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 £1.95) before granada sold their publishing interest to wm. collins sons and the imprint & publisher change to grafton & collins, retaining the same cover art and isbn 1975 copies open market edition (which includes british airports), should all state special overseas edition in the indicia
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (1974)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition sub-title is not on d-j cover (d-j) art (none: somewhat fancified shaded typographical title, author on plain black field) cover (d-j) price £2.80 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with map endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 14th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (1974)	harper & row h/cvr first printing, first edition so declared in indica sub-title is not on d-j cover (d-j) art by fred winkowski (unsigned, credited designed by on d-j back flap) cover (d-j) price $7.95 352pp. (check)/including (i)-vii pp. titles, indicia, b+w maps etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards distinguish from near-identical doubleday science fiction book club edition: cat# 6233 (7/1974) no price, states book club edition on d-j front flap, is not declared first edition in indicia, various printings: printer's gutter codes on p.337 include 21Q (= may 1974 first printing)
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Peter Saxon - Dark Ways To Death (1972)	the normal life of uk & commonwealth (this may or may not include canada) english language p/b licences at the time was circa 10 years, which makes the pbs ltd. five star books p/b edition's legality somewhat suspect unless granada publishing group voluntarily reverted the rights.
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Peter Saxon - Dark Ways To Death (1972)	pbs ltd.° five star imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price 25p (overseas territories' prices prob'ly 6.00s east africa, 60c south africa, 70c australia, 75c new zealand°°) 176pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - seems to've been connected in some way with world distributors (manchester) ltd., but details are very hard to come by °° - no distribution in these territories by way of trade as new books at these prices is attested: indeed, no distribution by way of the book trade in the uk is attested, and five star books seem to've been published as instant remainders, boxed out to remainder book distributors' accounts as cartons of mixed titles, deeply discounted and on firm sale terms only. without cat#s, sbns nor isbns, it would've been challenging to keep stocks in and supply customers' restock orders for individual titles. . .
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Doug Duperrault - Spotlight On Sin (1962)	one of harry whittington's approximately fifteen pseudonyms (not including house names) under which his more than two hundred novels, a substantial number of them sleaze, were published. ° - harry benjamin whittington 4/february/1915 - 11/june/1989; main by-line: harry whittington, under which at least eighty-six of his novels were published
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Milton K. Ozaki - Sucker Bait (1955)	private eye carl good detective novel, reprinted/republished by graphic books 1957 with new cat# 156
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Milton K. Ozaki - City Of Sin (1952)	private eye ''pete malary'' (sp?) detective novel republished in 1953 as a carnival books p/b #922 republished 1962 under the author's own name by lancer books as half double novel mmpb 72-628
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Milton K. Ozaki - Murder Doll (1952)	private eye ''carl good'' detective novel republished in 1959 by berkley books under the author's own name, possibly under the berkley medallion imprint.
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Milton K. Ozaki - Too Young To Die (1954)	private eye carl good detective novel, reprinted/reissued in 1957 in graphic p/b with new cat# 150 ''carl good'' may or may not've been the author's, or the publishers', mistake for ''carl guard'', or a clever plastic surgery job upon one to forestall a competitor publisher's objection to sharing a detective novel series.
ppint. 12th Jun 2023		Book Milton K. Ozaki - Too Young To Die (1956)	first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1954 first published in book format in 1954
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1992)	little, brown uk (warner books uk) orbit books imprint p/b first uk printing (n.b. the new isbn), first published in uk in 1969 by macdonald & co. publishers in h/cvr, published in uk p/b by futura publications (1981), not first uk p/b edition, six printings cover art by tim white (retained from sixth futura publications p/b printing and near simultaneous macdonald second edition h/cvr) cover price £5.99 (check for any overseas territories' prices) 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1981)	futura publications ltd. p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition there was also a second macdonald publishers h/cvr edition approximately simultaneous with this, sharing the tim white cover art on its d-j cover art by tim white (unsigned, uncredited; reproduced in ''chiaroscuro'' tim white (1988), q.v.) cover price £1.60 (check for overseas territories' prices) 256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising near-identical 1983 second, orbit p/b printing differs: cover price £2.50 near-identical 1986 third, orbit p/b printing cover price £2.50 near-identical 1988 fourth printing cover price £2.99 near-identical 1989 fifth printing cover price £3.50 (no overseas territories' prices) the 1991 p/b bears new bright, predominantly light blue cover art by tim white cover price £3.99 all of the above retain the original futura publications p/b isbn, as entered above in isbn10 field the 1992 orbit books imprint p/b, q.v. retains the new art, bears new orbit books isbn isbn 1-85723-074-4 still from the same typesetting, suitably emended
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1973)	granada publishing group panther books ltd. imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by colin hay (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''space wars: worlds and weapons'' robert holdstock as ''steven eisler'' (1979), q.v. where it's entitled ''alien city of bash'kaz'') cover price 35p, R0.85 south africa, $3.50 singapore, $1.10 australia & new zealand, $1.25 canada 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. distinguish from near-identical 1973 second printing, which differs: cover price 35p, $1.20 australia & new zealand indicia publishing history adds line: reprinted 1973 and from near-identical 1975 third printing, which differs: cover price 50p, $1.60 australia & new zealand indicia publishing history adds date to line: reprinted 1973, 1975 also from near-identical 1977 fourth printing, which differs: cover price 60p, $1.75 australia, $1.85 new zealand, $1.75 canada (check publishing history reprinting line statement) the 1978 fifth printing drops the pinked-edge disc from front cover, adding line between author and title: her hugo and nebula award-winning classic else near-identical, save: cover price 75p, 82½p ireland, $2.50 australia, $2.50 new zealand published by granada publishing ltd. in panther books 1973 reprinted 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978 near-identical 1979 sixth printing seen only incompletely reported: cover price £1.25 (overseas territories' prices ?) check for dropping of panther imprint, etc, etc. the next uk p/b of which yr hmbl srppnt. is aware is the first futura publications ltd. p/b (1981), q.v.
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969)	macdonald & co. (publishers) h/cvr first printing, first uk edition cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited line drawing on the hollow capitals SF of the uniform design) cover price 30/- 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity (1962)	brown, watson digit books imprint p/b undated° second printing half the original eponymous reprint collection; contains one novelette and one novella cover art by richard powers (signed powers, retained from first printing) cover price 2/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date presumably taken from donald h. tuck's encyclopedia
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity (1954)	some bibliographical references give this as a science fiction book club edition, which it was not; museum press and some other publishers gave their ''category fiction'' lists such ''club'' series names.
ppint. 11th Jun 2023		Book Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity (1954)	museum press h/cvr first printing, first uk edition reprint collection of two novelettes and two novellas cover (d-j) art by john richards (signed richards) cover (d-j) price 9/6d 224pp.(check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 9th Jun 2023		Book Douglas R. Mason - Horizon Alpha (1971)	check title page etc. for presence/absence of the statement ''an intext publisher''.
ppint. 9th Jun 2023		Book Gene Wolfe - Peace (1985)	chatto & windus yp/b first printing simultaneous with their h/cvr first printing prob'ly card-covered bind-up of the same print-run as their extremely small numbers h/cvr edition cover art by don macpherson (unsigned, credited on back cover, shared with d-j of h/cvr edition) cover price £3.95 264pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 9th Jun 2023		Book Gene Wolfe - Operation Ares (1978)	collins group fontana books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by peter elson (signed pe in a line-drawn box, credited on back cover) cover price 80p, $2.75 australia, $2.95 new zealand, $2.50 canada 224pp. (check) including 4pp. titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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