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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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