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ppint.
18th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - The Joyous Invasions (1966)
possibly j. m. dent & sons readers union group° the science fiction book club h/cvr first printing
for sale to members of the book club only, upon subscription by mail-order (later also to members of associated book clubs as an option)
° dent bought the sfbc incorporating it in their readers union group of book clubs in 1966

cover (d-j) art by john griffiths (the last appearance of variations upon his ''the blob'')
cover (d-j) price
208pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

later (c. 12/1972) renumbered cat# 5027 by david & charles; but since neither cat# is on the book, and the original 110 appears only on the d-j spine, this is unlikely to cause any great conniptions

ppint.
18th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Sturgeon In Orbit (1978)
contents:

introduction (nf) theodore sturgeon (1964)
extrapolation (novelette) fantastic vol.3 #2, 4/1954 as ''beware the fury''; fantastic strato bre vol.1 #4, 6/1954 as ''the fury beware'' which seems to've been in error, as listed on the front cover as ''beware the fury''; reprinted in fantastic vol.17 #1, 9/1967 as ''beware the fury''
the wages of synergy (ntte) startling stories vol.30 #3, 8/1953 with a b+w illustration by ed emshwiller
make room for me (ntte) fantastic vol.13 #5, 5/1951, fantastic bre #14, 10/1952, both with a shriek (!)
the heart (short story) other worlds #11, 5/1955
the incubi of parallel x (ntte) planet stories vol.5 #2, 9/1951

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Sturgeon In Orbit (1978)
harcourt brace jovanovich jove imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers
(successor imprint to or continuation of pyramid books, which was sold to harcourt brace jovanovich; sold on by hbj circa three years later to the berkley publishing group)

reprint collection of four novelettes and a short story, nf introduction by the author
(omits the nf ''about the cover'' from the first edition as the original art from f&sf not retained)

cover art by stanislaw fernandes (signed, uncredited)
cover price $1.50
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state published january 1978

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Sturgeon In Orbit (1973)
transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition
cover card is textured on the printed surface as though it were woven; cf. sf collectors library covers

reprint collection of four novelettes and a short story

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 30p, $1.09 australia, 90¢ new zealand
176pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (check if dated)

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Sturgeon In Orbit (1970)
victor gollancz 1970 first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition

reprint collection of four novelettes and a short story

cover (d-j) art (none; mainly typographical cover in spot magenta and black on ''gollancz yellow'' field)
cover (d-j) price 28/-
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Beyond (1980)
contents:

need (novella) science fantasy #46, 4/1961
abreaction (short story) weird tales vol. xxxx #5, 7/1948
nightmare island (novelette) as by e. waldo hunter, in unknown vol v #1, 6/1941 (unknown atlas bre ?? winter/?1947?)
largo (ss) fantastic adventures vol.9 #4, 7/1947; reprinted in amazing vol.41 #4, 10/1967
the bones (ss) unknown vol. vii #2, 8/1943 as by james h. beard, theodore sturgeon
like young (ss) f&sf vol.18 #3, 3/1960; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #7, 6/1960

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Beyond (1980)
bantam doubleday dell group dell mmpb simultaneous first printings, not first mmpb edition

almost entirely reprint collection of a novella, a novelette and four short stories

cover art by tom hallman (signed hallman, uncredited)
cover price $1.95
192pp. including titles, indicia (no table-of-contents) etc, end pp.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first dell printing---january 1980

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Beyond (1970)
avon books mmpb simultaneous third printings sharing merkin-printed covers

almost entirely reprint collection of a novella, a novelette and four short stories

cover art unsigned, uncredited, still as-yet unattributed sfaik
cover price 75¢
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc.

refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, adds line stating
third printing, september, 1970
to equally new line stating
first printing, june, 1960
implicitly retrospectively accounting one of the two first printings to have been the second

ppint.
17th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Aliens 4 (1970)
contents:

killdozer! (novella) astounding vol. xxxiv #3, 11/1944, revised for this collection 1959)
cactus dance (novelette) luke short's western magazine 10/1954
the comedian's children (ntte) venture vol. 2 #3, 5/1958; venture sf uk #22, 6/1956
the [widget], the [wadget], and boff (nlla) f&sf vol.9 #5, #6, 11/1955, 12/1955

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Robert Sheckley - Options (1977)
pan macmillan pan books p/b 1977° first printing, first uk edition

cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, uncredited; style elements and over-all style fit, painting is almost certainly signed)
cover price 60p, $1.75 australia, $1.85 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

° - month not given; do not rely upon amazon-stated months & days without publishers' corrobboration

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Case And The Dreamer And Other Stories (1977)
contents:

case and the dreamer (novella) galaxy vol.33 #4, 1/1973;
galaxy universal-tandem bre No.5 (best ignored: go by vol.33 #4 and merkin date on masthead)
if all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? (novella) in ''dangerous visions'' ed. harlan ellison (1967), q.v.
afterword (to the above, nf) ditto (1967)
when you care, when you love (novelette) f&sf vol.23 #3, 9/1962
author's note (afterword, nf) 1974 new to this collection

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Case And The Dreamer And Other Stories (1977)
pan macmillan pan books p/b undated° first printing, first uk edition
sub-title (arguably) ''and other stories'' is not on the front cover

reprint collection of two novellas and a novelette, with two nf afterwords by the author

cover art by gino d'achille (unsigned, uncredited; details in style and over-all style fit, painting is almost certainly signed; painting and cover acknowledged by the artist's daughter)
cover price 60p, $1.75 australia, $1.85 new zealand
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

° - save for copyright date; dated by end pp. advert for pan books p/b of ''options'' robert sheckley, q.v., 0-330-24885-5, published in 1977 (so stated in its indicia publishing history), as was ''hitler has won'' frederic mulally, 0-330-24883-9

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Theodore Sturgeon - Case And The Dreamer And Other Stories (1974)
new american library signet books imprint simultaneous mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers

cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed
cat# Q6074
cover price 95¢
160pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc.

refer to indicia to see if the carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, september, 1974/123456789

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Beverley Nichols - The Stream That Stood Still (1948)
sequel to ''the tree that sat down'' (1945), q.v.

ppint.
16th Jun 2023
Book
Beverley Nichols - The Stream That Stood Still (1948)
jonathan cape first published 1948, h/cvr first printing, first edition
thirty bedford square
london

dedication: to jill and judy nichols with love from their wicked uncle

cover (d-j) art, colour frontispiece (d-j art sans overlaid typography) and
b+w interior illustrations by richard kennedy (credited)
cover (d-j) price 8s 6d.
226 rose top edge-stained pp. including titles and tipped-in colour plate frontispiece, indicia, table-of-contents (three books of v, v & vi titled chapters), etc., four blank end pp., sewn in signatures and bound with b+w decorated endpapers between rose-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, author, jonathan cape logo on spine and line drawing of three fish swimming on front cloth, all in silver


distinguish from near-identical second and third printings by reference to the indicia publishing history

ppint.
15th Jun 2023
Book
Ursula K. Le Guin - City Of Illusions (1978)
it appears that, for a while (?), grosset & dunlap (or charter communications, inc.) misunderstood (?or possibly deliberately misused?) the amazing ace books five-digit cat# system, increasing the cat# (by one, if possible°) only when the cover price was increased above that of the previous printing, instead of with each printing.

° - if not possible, because the cat# one higher already allotted to another book, then to a nearby group of five cat#s starting with a number ending in -0 or in -5 (or sometimes, it seems, in -1 or in -6)

this under-counted the number of printings and, in the absence of any files/access to any files recording the size of print-runs, numbers shipped, returns including stripped covers-only returns, each matched with cover prices, and number of copies remaindered, rendered it near impossible for authors or their agents to make accurate estimates of the royalties outstanding to them.

the science fiction writers of america (very approximately sf & fantasy writers of the world published in america trade organization) attempted to get management(s) to sort out the accounting and to pay all monies owed, and eventually organised a writers' boycott of ace, to help encourage ace's management.

grosset & dunlap's thomas (tom) doherty undertook to sort the financial side of this mess out to the best extent possible, and employed james p. (jim) baen to run and rebuild the editorial side of ace books with tom doherty's further commitment to providing him with an at least adequate budget, and accurate and timely sales & royalty statements - and payments! - to authors or their agents, plus back-payments where such could be calculated, or reasonably reliably estimated.

grosset & dunlap's ace books (etc.) duly recovered under their (and others') efforts, and ran profitably to the point the berkley publishing group (berkley-putnam, putnam) or their owners decided to offer sufficiently large a sum to buy grosset & dunlap / charter communications / ace books (etc.) publishers and fold it into their group.

(tom doherty and jim baen continued to work well together establishing first tor books, and then baen books - both major publishing success stories, though not without their own - rather different - sizable hiccups along their - completely separate - ways.)

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. . .


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