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ppint. 20th May 2023		Book Alexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1969)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition dedication: this book is for charles and marsha brown cover (d-j) art by ken carroll (unsigned, probapossibly credited on d-j flap) cover (d-j) price 22/- 256pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 20th May 2023		Book Alexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1970)	sphere books' cat#s did not rise in any observable systematic sequence with reprintings / new editions with new cover art, and might actually fall lower than the/an earlier printing/edition. i've no idea why (/why not), and doubt anyone now remembers why (not), even if yet amongst the living. - try enquiring of sphere books' undead ex-employees - ?
ppint. 20th May 2023		Book Alexei Panshin - Rite Of Passage (1970)	thomson books ltd. sphere books 1970, almost certainly sphere's first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by eddie jones (signed, uncredited) cover price (5/-) 25p, 6/00 east africa (shillings), 60c south africa, 80c australia, 80c new zealand 224pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. list of overseas agents iirc
ppint. 20th May 2023		Book Brian M. Stableford - Cradle Of The Sun (1969)	unbound signatures / carcases of this edition were collected and bound up into the anonymously-edited ''science fiction special (5)'' ° (1971), q.v. ° - on its d-j front, it appears to be entitled ''science fiction special thoom!''. . .
ppint. 20th May 2023		Book Brian M. Stableford - Cradle Of The Sun (1969)	sidgwick & jackson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition, first solo edition (the first edition was half an ''ace double'' mmpb) dedication: to marjorie cover (d-j) art unsigned (may have been credited on d-j flap - check) cover (d-j) price 24/- 192pp. including 8 unnumbered pp. titles, indicia etc, 2 blank end pp, bound with endpapers between covered boards sbn on d-j: that on indicia page lacks the checksum digit which evidently had not been calculated when the book went to press.
ppint. 19th May 2023		Book John Creighton - Stranglehold (1959)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition(?) classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by paul rader (unsigned, attribution from the ace image library) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp? (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with ''scream street'' mike brett (1959°), q.v. ° - ace image library gives the year of publication of this ace double as 1958, which may well be correct
ppint. 19th May 2023		Book Mike Brett - Scream Street (1959)	half ace books mmpb first printing, first edition classic ''ace double'' format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other cover art by harry barton (signed barton, attribution from the ace image library) cover price 35¢ ½ 256pp? (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc; advertising pp. in-between the double's halves doubled with ''stranglehold'' john creighton (1959°), q.v. ° - ace image library gives the year of publication of this ace double as 1958, which may well be correct
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Ralph Milne Farley - The Radio Beasts (1964)	the radio man series #2: #1: ''the radio man'' (1948), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Ralph Milne Farley - The Radio Planet (1964)	the radio man series #3: #1: ''the radio man'' (1948), q.v. for series listing, and links.
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Ralph Milne Farley - The Radio Man (1948)	fantasy publishing company, inc. (hence also fpci, as on d-j spine) h/cvr first printing, first edition possibly simultaneous with 300 copy tp/b bind-up from the same 3,000 copy signatures print-run 300 copies bound into the collection/omnibus ''strange worlds'' ralph milne farley (fpci 1953), q.v. 700 further original signature sets were bound up for pick-a-book 700 copies signature sets still unbound in 1983 (information from jack l. chalked) cover (d-j) art and cover design by jack gaughan (unsigned i think, credited) b+w interior illustrations by o. g. estes (jr.) cover (d-j) price $2.50 182pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p., bound with endpapers between blue-green cloth-covered boards, titles blocked in gold on spine
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Ralph Milne Farley - The Radio Planet (1964)	serialised in argosy all-story weekly 26/6/, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31/7/1926; vol.178 #4, #5, #6, vol.179 #1, #2, #3 reprinted in fantastic novels magazine vol. iv #1, #4/1942; the cover story, art by virgil finlay (signed); with seven b+w illustrations by frank r. paul
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Ralph Milne Farley - The Radio Planet (1964)	and thank-you once again, jimess
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book Patricia Clarke - Country Walks In North-west England (2021)	stump circle books, lancaster tp/b profusely illustrated with colour maps ex ordnance survey, and photographs cover art photographic: smardale gill viaduct (from lower down smardale gill) cover price £10.00 100pp. including two unpaginated pp. titles, indicia etc., 5pp. walks pages index, 2pp. bibliography: general plus per walk, acknowledgements contents: 1p. foreword, 2pp. table-of-contents with list of walks and keyed map of the lake district national park 1p. introduction, 1p. what we have found to be useful equipment, before you go 1p. how to use this book 1p. disclaimer; if you are not sure about using maps... welcome to fairfieldwalkers.wordpress.com ! 2pp. a word about maps and using grid references 5pp. map legend; the countryside code the walks: detailed guides, plus points to notice: 1 farleton fell 5 miles / 8 km 2 fairy steps 7 miles / 11 km 3 windermere 7½ miles / 12 km 4 feizor 5 miles / 8 km 5 smardale 6½ miles / 10½ km 6 whitbarrow 7 miles / 11¼ km (with short-cut ~6 miles / 9¾ km, and a less steep descent) 7 clougha 5½ miles / 8⅞ km (no dogs at any time; some days restrictions august-december); 2 mile / 3¾ km extension optional, taking it up to 9 miles / 12⅝ km 8 hampsfell 5 miles / 8 kms 9 staveley 6 miles / 9¾ km 10 clapham 6 miles / 9¾ km 11 silverdale 5½ miles / 8½ km 12 coniston 5½ miles / 9 km exposed: not for a windy or very windy day (most of the walks have ascents - and therefore also descents of the same amount - of between 500 and 1,000 feet over 4-6 hours, 160-300 metres; walks 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12 - are at, or a little over, the 1,000-1,200 feet / 300-360 metre end of ascent; all walks are walkable! - though i'd take up^W to^W edit: at least twice as long to do them as the times given - or longer! - yr unfit, ancnt'n'hmbl srppnt.) n.b. the donation of the profits from the sales of this book is by the choice of the authors: the fairfield association is not associated with stump circle books in any way
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1993)	strange seed series #1: #1: ''strange seed'' (1978), (this novel) #2: ''nursery tale'' (1982), q.v. #3: ''the children of the island'' (1983), q.v. #4: ''the people of the dark'' (1985), q.v. #5: ''earthmun'' (1995), q.v. aka ''laughing man'' (mmpb 2003), q.v.
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1993)	cassell plc victor gollancz p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by danny flynn cover price £4.99 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 17th May 2023		Book T. M. Wright - Strange Seed (1987)	tor books mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition cover art by hector garrido canadian isbn 0-812-52763-1 cover price $4.95 canada cover price $3.95 u.s. 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book James Tiptree Jr. - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1989)	hugo and nebula awards-winning novella originally published in ''aurora: beyond equality'' eds. susan janice anderson, vonda n. mcintyre (1976), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book James Tiptree Jr. - Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1989)	tor books mmpb first printing, first thus (first independently-titled book publication) half a ''tor double'' with two front covers, contents all printed same way up states tor double #11 on primary front cover in chief, bar-code on secondary cover cover art by ron walotsky (unsigned, credited) isbn 0-812-50078-4 canada cover price $4.50 canada cover price $3.50 u.s. ½ 176pp. (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc. doubled with ''souls'' joanna russ (1989), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - Souls (1989)	hugo and locus award-winning novella, originally published in f&sf vol.62 #1, 1/1982
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - Souls (1989)	tor books mmpb first printing, first thus (first independently-titled book edition) half a tor double with two front covers (these & contents bound same way up) stated tor double novel #11 on t'other side's cover in chief cover art by dieter rottermund (unsigned, credited) isbn 0-812-50087-4 canada cover price $4.50 canada cover price $3.50 u.s. ½ 176pp. (check) including 2 x titles, indicia etc. doubled with ''houston, houston, do you read?'' james tiptree, jr. (1989), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Hidden Side Of The Moon (1989)	contents: the little dirty girl (novelette) in ''elsewhere vol. II'' eds. terri windling, mark arnold (1982), q.v. sword blades and poppy seed (short story) in ''heroic visions'' ed. jessica amanda salmonson (1983), q.v. main street: 1953 (ss) sinister wisdom #24, fall/1983 how dorothy kept away the spring (ss) f&sf vol.52 #2, 2/1977 this afternoon (ss) cimarron review #6, 2/1968 this night, at my fire (ss) epoch vol.xv #2, winter/1966 ''i had vacantly crumpled it in my pocket ... but by god, eliot, it was a photograph from life!'' (ss) f&sf vol.27 #2, 8/1964 a cthulhu mythos story come closer (ss) magazine of horror vol.2 #4, 8/1965 it's important to believe (ss) sinister wisdom #14, 1980 mr. wilde's second chance (ss) f&sf vol.31 #3, 9/1966 window dressing (ss) in ''new worlds of fantasy #2'' ed. terry carr (1970), q.v. existence (ss) in ''epoch'' eds. robert silverberg, roger elwood (1975), q.v. foul fowl (ss) the little magazine vol.5 #1, 1971 a short and happy life (ss) f&sf vol.36 #6, 6/1969 the throaways (ss) consumption vol.2 #3, summer/1969 (mayn't the title have had another ''w'' ?) the cliches from outer space (ss) women's studies international forum vol.7 #2, 1984 elf hill (ss) f&sf vol.63 #5, 11/1982 nor custom stale (ss) f&sf vol.19 #3, 9/1959; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #5, 4/1960 the experimenter (ntte) galaxy vol.36 #9, 10/1975, with two b+w illustrations by freff (conor freff cochran) reasonable people (ss) in ''orbit 14'' ed. damon knight (1974), q.v. life in a furniture store (ss) epoch vol. xv #1, fall/1965 the view from this window (ntte) in ''quark/#1'' eds. marilyn hacker, samuel r. delany (1970), q.v. old pictures (nf) ©1987 possibly original to this collection visiting (ss) manhattan review, fall/1967 visiting day (ss) south vol.2 #1, 1970 old thoughts, old presences (ss intro) in ''the zanzibar cat'' , 1985? cover title for two short stories: the autobiography of my mother (ss) epoch vol. xxv #1, fall/1975 daddy's girl (ss) epoch vol. xxiv #2, spring 1975; ''new worlds 9'' ed. hilary bailey (11/1975), q.v. n.b. the volume numbers for these two issues of epoch seem potentially mutually exclusive
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Hidden Side Of The Moon (1989)	the namara group the women's press p/b first printing, first uk edition, first general p/b edition reprint collection of twenty-three short stories and three novelettes cover art by judith clute (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price £4.95 232pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Zanzibar Cat (1984)	drops a novelette and two short stories, from the arkham house h/cvr first edition of this collection: how dorothy kept away the spring (short story) f&sf vol.52 #2, 2/1977 poor man, beggar man (novelette) in ''universe 1'' ed. terry carr (1971), q.v. old thoughts, old presences (ss) (original to the arkham house collection (1975); the two short stories are re-collected in ''the hidden side of the moon'' joanna russ (1988), q.v. the novelette was reprinted in the anthology, ''nebula award stories 7'' ed. lloyd biggle jr. (1972 & ff.), q.v. ''old thoughts, old presences'' is, and is sometimes also indexed as, the cover title for two individually-titled short stories: ''the autobiography of my mother'' & ''daddy's girl''
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Joanna Russ - The Adventures Of Alyx (1985)	this collection does not include the alyx short story, ''a game of vlet'' (f&sf vol.46 #2, 2/1974) this is collected in ''the zanzibar cat'' joanna russ (1983), q.v. it was also anthologised in ''pawn to infinity'' eds. fred saberhagen, joan saberhagen (1982), q.v.
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Keith Roberts - Pavane (1970)	granada publishing panther books imprint first printing, first uk p/b edition contents follow those of the rupert hart-davis first edition h/cvr (london 1968) cover art by brian edwards (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 6/- (30p), 75c south africa, 95c australia, 85c new zealand, 95c canada 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 16th May 2023		Book Michael Moorcock - The Oak And The Ram (1973)	allison & busby h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by keith roberts (signed; i didn't note if credited on d-j flap), the artist is also author, q.v. cover (d-j) price £2.25 168pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Marion Zimmer Bradley - Two To Conquer (1982)	hutchinson publishing group arrow books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by bruce pennington (unsigned, uncredited; collected in ''ultraterranium'' bruce pennington (1992), q.v.) cover price £1.75 (no other prices) 340pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2017)	darkover series #3: #1: ''darkover landfall'' marion zimmer bradley (1972), q.v. for series listing, and links. sequel to #2: ''stormqueen!'' marion zimmer bradley (1978), q.v.
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2017)	daw books mmpb-format p/b first printing, first p/b edition cover art by matthew stawicki (credited, retained from daw books h/cvr first edition d-j) cover price $7.99 (c. $9.99 canada (check)) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 1720 420pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc; end pp. advertising
ppint. 15th May 2023		Book Deborah J. Ross - Thunderlord (2016)	daw books h/cvr first printing, first edition simultaneous with ebook cover (d-j) art by matthew stawicki (credited) cover (d-j) price $27.00 (c.$39 canada (check)) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 1720 412pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, quarter-bound with endpapers between paper-covered boards written by deborah j. ross, based upon title and notes - apparently not as substantial as an outline - of marion zimmer bradley's; mzb died in 1999

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