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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.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Manly Wade Wellman - The Dark Destroyers (1960)	and thank-you again, jimess.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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.
ppint. 28th May 2023		Book Christopher 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
ppint. 26th May 2023		Book Pauline 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.
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Laughing Man (2003)	strange seed series #5: #1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. 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
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. 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
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - The People Of The Dark (1985)	strange seed series #4: #1: ''strange seed'' (1978), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. 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
ppint. 25th May 2023		Book T. 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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