Books - Comments by ppint.

Books - Comments by ppint.

« Member Page

Page 97 of 670 : Previous : Next :

Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 9th Jun 2023		Book Gene Wolfe - Operation Ares (1977)	dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by richard weaver cover (d-j) price £3.95 208pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 9th Jun 2023		Book Gene Wolfe - Operation Ares (1970)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by paul lehr (unsigned, uncredited, painting is signed) cover price 75¢ 208pp. including titles, indicia etc.
ppint. 8th Jun 2023		Book Basil Dawson - Dan Dare On Mars (1956)	there was a luck of the legion novel in the first (iirc only, or first of only two), release(s) by hulton press of their hardcover eagle novels series; as i find further details of this - and any of the others, as and when yr hmbl srppnt. comes across copies; and if they come back to mind - i'll add them. all i can currently recall is there was a storm nelson novel, a jack o'lantern novel and one other - but i cannot remember what, nor of which of which ongoing eagle comic hero. i'm pretty sure there were only four or eight novels, in near-uniform, largely yellow-fronted with black typography superimposed upon a much fainter large red ''eagle'' emblem, unique cover art across the top ~33⅓% of the uniform d-j design. there were some nf titles too; but i don't remember aught about them at all, except they did not share the novels' uniform design. (edit: after a while digging: i've now traced two jack o'lantern novels, georgian england-set in the time of highwaymen and the like; yr hmbl srppnt. enjoyed his stories in the comic; and that the fourth of the first release quartet was a three j's school-set novel; but i don't remember them from eagle comic at all...) i am, however, absolutely positive that there wasn't another dan dare novel in this short series.
ppint. 6th Jun 2023		Book Manning Lee Stokes - Cold Blue Death (1977)	this is the 1977 mmpb reissue of this novel by manor books and its date should be corrected to this it was a 1970 macfadden books mmpb title; this manor books mmpb was likely printed essentially from the same typesetting, suitably emended; manor books did not exist in 1970: it was the successor publisher set up to absorb all the book publishing (possibly all their magazine side as well) interests and properties of the mini-conglomerate of macfadden bartell, inc. - primarily macfadden books so far as i'm aware. manor books began publishing in 1972 and ceased publishing sf&f in 1980, closing down in 1981.
ppint. 6th Jun 2023		Book Manning Lee Stokes - Cold Blue Death (1977)	author should be corrected to ''manning lee stokes''; ken stanton is a pseudonym of manning lee stokes. date of this item is wrong and should be corrected to 1977
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Richard Hescox - The Deceiving Eye (2004)	paper tiger / dragon's world went bust, or very nearly so, and were bought by collins brown (yr hmbl srppnt. does not know if these were then independent), who voluntarily started paying the paper tiger books-published artists money owed by the owners of the previous incarnation; this confused josh kirby at least twice over, as no-one'd kept him abreast of the ongoing ''situation'' - nor, therefore, that the new owners almost certainly weren't under any legal obligation to pay him any of the royalties outstanding when they bought the remaining assets. it cheered him up considerably when i explained this and similar, and advised him to re-contact his agent to open correspondence with the (then) new owners. (i've tried finding any current on-line presence of paper tiger/dragons world/dragons dream publishers or imprints again a couple of times this year, and so far failed.)
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Mark Shipper - Paperback Writer (1978)	image 1852690 is^W was wrong for this bookcat item and should^W has been deleted: it is from a new english library uk p/b and doesn't belong to this grosset & dunlap sunridge press tp/b
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Mark Shipper - Paperback Writer (1978)	the number-string in the isbn10 field is wrong and should be corrected by the removal of the spurious terminal ''X''.
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Richard Hescox - The Deceiving Eye (2004)	anova books paper tiger imprint h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art over like (?laminated?) boards by richard hescox cover price £20.00, $44.95 canada, $29.95 usa 128 very large format pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. bound (with endpapers?) between covered boards there should have been a vlf card-covered bind-up of carcasses from the same print-run, but yr hmbl srppnt. does not know if this occurred. nor am i actually certain who owned anova books at the time, which got increasingly fraught for me, and distracted me from matters such as this, and quite a lot of other things, besides.
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Hugh Cook - Lords Of The Sword (1991)	the remaining two-thirds of the novel were not then published by new american library / roc / anyone else on the continent, and did not see merkin publication until paizo publishing's trade p/b (2010)°, q.v. ° - in their ''planet stories'' series, and back under the original title.
ppint. 4th Jun 2023		Book Samuel R. Delany - Heavenly Breakfast (1979)	bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition includes ''the winter of love'' (nf introduction) samuel r. delany cover art (signed, undeciphered, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed) cover price $1.95 144pp. including titles, indicia, introduction, etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 3rd Jun 2023		Book Terry Carr - On Our Way To The Future (1970)	and thank-you again, jimess.
ppint. 2nd Jun 2023		Book Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (2003)	mary wollstonecraft shelley was the daughter of mary wollstonecraft and william godwin, q.v., who was also a published author of fiction including horror and fantasy, and whose influence upon mary wollstonecraft shelley's work does not appear to've been deeply studied.
ppint. 2nd Jun 2023		Book William Godwin - Caleb Williams (1966)	borderline fantasy only; no single element is identifiable as fantasy, but the over-all effect is nightmarish. william godwin (1756-1836) was a philosopher, political philosopher and biographer, author inter alia of ''an enquiry into political justice'' (1793, revised 1796), q.v., which concludes that all political institutions are ultimately incompatible with serving humanity truthfully and accurately. ''st. leon: a tale of the sixteenth century'' (1799), q.v, is an interesting twist on the wandering jew legend, with further fantastical elements such as a functional philosophers' stone, and a phial of truly immortality-conferring elixir of life, not to mention the final twist in which redacted (to avoid spoilerage). william godwin also wrote children's (and some adult) fiction published as by ''edward baldwin'', q.v.
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Larry Niven - The Long ARM Of Gil Hamilton (1978)	contents: death by ecstasy (novella) galaxy vol.27 #6, 1/1969 ''the organleggers'', 3 b+w illustrations jack gaughan the defenseless dead (novelette) in ''ten tomorrows'' ed. roger elwood (1973), q.v. ARM (novella) in ''epoch'' eds. robert silverberg, roger elwood (1975), q.v. ''afterword: the last word about SF/detectives'' (6pp. nf essay) (original to this collection)
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Larry Niven - The Long ARM Of Gil Hamilton (1978)	random house group ballantine books mmpb third printing, new (on second printing 1/1977) cover art reprint collection of two novellas and a novelette; known space stories featuring gil ''the ARM'' plus ''afterword: the last word about SF/detectives'' (6pp. nf essay) larry niven cover art by george bush (signed bush, credited) cover price $1.75 number-string on spine appends cover price in ¢ents to sbn: 345-28038-5-175 192pp. including 8 unnumbered, unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 2 end pp. advertising: L-11 listing current ballantine books larry niven titles, editions, prices, LG-5 listing current jack l. chalker, james p. hogan titles and ''the world is round'' tony rothman
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Mort (1988)	transworld publishers corgi books imprint p/b first printing, first p/b edition dedication: to rhianna cover art by josh kirby (signed, credited) cover price £2.99, $8.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand; $4.95 canada in white (colourless) cut-out from front cover art next to top of spine, with cat# 131067 272pp. including six unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc., no additional end pp. plus 2 bound-in card pp. the binding incorporates an unnumbered, unpaginated two-sided b+w printed card advertisement for readers union science fiction book club, brunel house, newton abbot devon; offering a choice of any three sfbc titles from a choice of twenty titles mostly shown spine-on in stack, some viewed front-on, for 50p post-free - whilst stocks remained.
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Hugh Cook - Lords Of The Sword (1991)	new american library roc series, possibly by then imprint, mmpb first printing, first thus wizard war chronicles (series) but series number not assigned the first one-third of ''the walrus and the warwolf'' chronicles of an age of darkness book four, q.v. cover art by richard hescox (the painting is believed signed, but is not visibly signed on the mmpb; it is on artist's website, and it's in ''the deceiving eye'' richard hescox, randy n. dannenfelser (2004), q.v.) cover price (canada $4.99) • u.s. $3.99 272pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Hugh Cook - The Walrus And The Warwolf (1988)	colin smythe ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition (may have been delayed, but was scheduled to just precede the first corgi books p/b printing) cover (d-j) art by steve crisp cover (d-j) price 488pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Hugh Cook - The Oracle (1989)	warner books group popular library imprint mmpb first printing, first mmpb and first merkin p/b edition popular library / questar series; not a separate imprint mmpb of the chronicles of an age of darkness book three, but wizard war chronicles iv, not iii, because popular library split the second book in two, as wwc ii & iii cover art by don maitz canadian isbn 0-445-20913-1 cover price $4.95 canada cover price $3.95 u.s. 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 1st Jun 2023		Book Hugh Cook - The Women And The Warlords (1987)	colin smythe ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by steve crisp (shared by corgi books p/b) cover price £10.95 (from 1989: may not be originally published price) 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, blank end p. bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 30th May 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (1994)	cassell group victor gollancz imprint 1994 p/b first printing, simultaneous first edition with first h/cvr printing card covered bind-up of the same print-run of signatures as the 1994 first h/cvr edition dedications: terry: one more for rhianna graham: to matthew and james, who would like me to include bruce grobelaar cover art and all interior illustrations by graham higgins coloured by carol bennett, lettering by euan smith cover price £7.99 96pp. including 2 unpaginated. titles, indicia etc, no additional end pp.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Terry Pratchett - Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (1994)	first published year is wrong and should be corrected to 1994 no edition of ''mort: a discworld big comic'' was published before the simultaneous 22/9/1994 editions. this is *not* a reissue of the text of terry's novel, ''mort'' with added illustrations: it is a *new* work. these are the first edition of ''mort: a discworld big comic'' by terry pratchett, graham higgins.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - Dead Centre (1982)	first published year is wrong and should be corrected to 1980 this was first published in michael joseph h/cvr in 1980, so 1981 is wrong.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - Dead Centre (1980)	first published year is wrong and should be corrected to 1980 this book was first published in michael joseph h/cvr in 1980
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - Dead Centre (1982)	(maxwell printing & publishing group/little, brown (warner books uk) ?)) futura imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art cover price 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc. end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - Dead Centre (1980)	pearson penguin group michael joseph h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art cover (d-j) price 280pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - 'I'm Penny, Fly Me' (1975)	christopher hovell wood's penny sutton series #4: first person (mildly) pornographic fiction as by penny sutton: #1: ''the stewardesses'' (1973), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - 'I'm Penny, Fly Me' (1975)	futura publications futura books imprint p/b first printing, first edition cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price 40p, $1.50 australia, $1.50 new zealand, $1.50 canada 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher Wood - The Jumbo Jet Girls (1974)	christopher hovell wood's penny sutton series #3: (mildly) pornographic fiction as by penny sutton: #1: ''the stewardesses'' (1973), q.v. for series listing, and links.

Page 97 of 670 : Previous : Next :