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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
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.

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