ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - The Jumbo Jet Girls (1974) | futura publications futura books imprint p/b first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 35p, $1.15 australia, $1.15 new zealand, $1.25 canada
144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookManly Wade Wellman - The Dark Destroyers (1960) | and thank-you again, jimess.
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - Penny Sutton (1976) | christopher hovell wood's penny sutton series #5:
(mildly) pornographic fiction - ''erotica'', to be posh:
#1: ''the-stewardesses'' (1973), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - Penny Sutton (1976) | futura publications futura books imprint p/b first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic
cover price
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - The Stewardesses (1976) | christopher hovell(e) wood's penny sutton series #1:
mild porn/erotica written in the first person as by penny sutton:
#1: ''the stewardesses'' (1973), (this novel)
#2: ''the stewardesses down under'' (1973), q.v.
#3: ''the jumbo jet girls'' (1974), q.v.
#4: ''i'm penny, fly me'' (1975), q.v.
#5: ''penny sutton - supersonic'' (1976), q.v.
title is possibly just ''supersonic''; can't tell from front cover; find a copy again & check title page
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - The Stewardesses Down Under (1973) | christopher hovell wood's penny sutton novel #2:
erotica written in the first person as by penny sutton:
#1: ''the stewardesses'' (1973), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 28th May 2023 | | BookChristopher Wood - The Stewardesses Down Under (1973) | tbl (thomson books ltd.) sphere books p/b first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 30p, $1.00 australia, ,$1.00 new zealand, $1.10 canada
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ppint. 26th May 2023 | | BookPauline Clarke - The Twelve And The Genii (1962) | faber & faber (though there was only ever the one) h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by cecil leslie
interior b+w illustrations also by cecil (mary) leslie
cover (d-j) price 13/6d.
186pp? (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
publication date liable to've been ~6th/7/1962 as reviewed in the guardian that day.
may well've been repriced upwards by faber & faber price label over old price on d-j front flap, if still in-print (or on d-j if this reprinted) in the seventies.
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Laughing Man (2003) | strange seed series #5:
#1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Laughing Man (2003) | dorchester publishing group leisure books imprint mmpb first printing, first merkin edition
cover art unsigned, may be credited
cover price $5.99 (? separate canadian price, possibly in bar-code data block &/or spine ?)
312pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Earthmun (1995) | cassell plc victor gollancz p/b first printing, first uk edition, possibly first edition
cover art by danny flynn
cover price £4.99
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - The People Of The Dark (1985) | strange seed series #4:
#1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - The People Of The Dark (1985) | tor books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, may be credited
canadian isbn 0-812-52753-4
cover price $3.95 canada
cover price $3.50 u.s.
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - The Children Of The Island (1983) | strange seed series #3:
#1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - The Children Of The Island (1983) | the berkley publishing group jove books imprint mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by hector garrido unsigned sfaics, may be credited, attributed by grady hendrix, bill errickson (ibid. 2017)
cover price $2.95
248pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Nursery Tale (1994) | strange seed series #2:
#1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Nursery Tale (1994) | cassell plc victor gollancz p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by danny flynn
cover price £4.99
288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookT. M. Wright - Nursery Tale (1982) | playboy press/paperbacks (they seem to've been consistently inconsistent) mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by hector garrido (unsigned or i haven't spotted it, may be credited; attributed in ''paperbacks from hell'' grady hendrix, bill errickson (2017), q.v.)
cover price $2.95
288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
republished 1983 by the berkley publishing group in jove books mmpb edition, after they'd bough both playboy press/books and repurposed jove (previously pyramid books) as a horror line: so may well be from the same plates/typesetting, slightly emended; but i've not seen this edition.)
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ppint. 25th May 2023 | | BookJohn Buchan - Greenmantle (2008) | the penguin group (?when did livres hachette buy them?°) penguin red classics series p/b first printing
cover art by neil gower (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £7.99
352pp. including six unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. an advertisement.
° - themselves owned by lagardère; but the book group - including transworld publishers - since bought by cornerstone; the monopoly games of the mega-rich multiply ever and on...
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ppint. 24th May 2023 | | BookCarter Brown - The Million Dollar Babe (1961) | cover art by baryé phillips (signed baryé, prob'ly uncredited)
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ppint. 24th May 2023 | | BookCarter Brown - The Dream Is Deadly (1960) | cover art by baryé phillips (signed baryé, prob'ly uncredited)
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ppint. 24th May 2023 | | BookCarter Brown - The Passionate (1959) | cover art by baryé phillips (signed baryé, prob'ly uncredited)
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ppint. 22nd May 2023 | | BookGene Wolfe - The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1983) | hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, not first uk p/b (was quartet books p/b)
cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; attribution from artist's website?; stylistically unique - and matches that of all the other covers he did for arrow's gene wolfe p/bs° in this period)
cover price £1.50 (no overseas territories' prices)
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
° - and for their p/bs of marion zimmer bradley's darkover books, etc. . .
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1969) | charter communications, inc. ace books mmpb second printing undated save for copyright date°
''an ace science fiction special'' 72781|75¢'' in chief after ace books logo
''nebula award best sf novel of the year'' in pinked-edge yellow bezant to right of title + author
cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon is the lower of the two panels from the first edition shot up to occupy ~60% of the front cover, with all typography upon the white (unprinted) ground above
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising°°
° - date of this printing taken from the publishing history of the ace books mmpb third printing
the cat# implies - but does not prove - that charter communications/ace - were aware of, and may upon purchase of ace books, inc. have had some stock remaining of the first edition, cat# A-16, and assigned a notional systematic five digit cat# of 72780 to it
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1968) | (possibly charter communications, inc.) ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
ace science fiction special, first series
cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price 75¢
256pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
month of publication not given, taken from the publishing history in the third ace mmpb printing
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1970) | j. m. dent & sons readers union group the science fiction book club first printing, not first h/cvr edition
for sale by mail-order on opt-out subscription to members of the book club, and later as an option to members of other readers union group bookclubs
cover (d-j) art by terry james (unsigned b+w artwork, may be credited on d-j flap)
cover (d-j) price
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards
no notional 5000 series cat# conferred during david & charles' 12/1972-1/1973 great renumbering, following their purchase of the readers union group of bookclubs from j. m. dent & sons, so no stock remained by then.
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Heinlein In Dimension (1969) | advent publishers, chicago trade p/b first printing, first p/b edition
probably the card bind-up of signatures from the same print-run as their simultaneous h/cvr second printing
cover art by alex eisenstein (unsigned, uncredited; reused from h/cvr first edition where credited)
cover price $2.45 (initially-peelable price-gun label on back cover)
216pp. (check) including titles, indicia, nf introduction by james blish, etc, end pp. advertising
distinguish from advent publishers near-identical second printing on same isbn (1/1971) by reference to
indicia publishing history adding line:
second paperbound printing january 1971
and at least two further near-identical reprintings: price-gun label price may well have risen
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Earth Magic (1980) | serialised as ''the son of black morca'' in fantastic vol.22 #4, #5, #6; 4/, 7/, 9/1978;
part one is the cover story, art by esteban maroto;
each part has a b+w illustration by jeff jones
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Earth Magic (1980) | abp/methuen group magnum books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by boris vallejo (signed, credited as boris; re-used from ace books mmpb, new typography)
cover price £1.40 (?overseas territories' prices?)
280pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
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ppint. 21st May 2023 | | BookAlexei Panshin - Earth Magic (1978) | grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
cover art by boris vallejo (signed, credited as boris)
cover price $1.95
280pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
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