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News
& What's New - March 2020 |
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First
Bulgarian editions in my collection |
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16 Mar
2020
As
you might
know by now I try to collect all editions worldwide of Philip
José Farmer's work. Including all the reprints of his books.
The
collection now includes about 1350 editions and printings of Farmer's
books. I'm still looking for about 200 known editions and reprints.
Next to his books I also collect all anthologies, magazines and
fanzines, and his non-fiction work as well as the non-fiction written
about him.
The collection grows and grows every year. But till now I hadn't found
any of the Bulgarian editions for sale. There were seven books I was
looking for, but recently I found four of them online at a Bulgarian
book shop. Thanks for the service Zhivka Zhelyazkova!
The four books are:
There are still three more novels, in
The World of Tiers series, that I am looking for. See the index of Bulgarian books.
Only the first two books in the Riverworld series
were translated.
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French
ghost editions |
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14 Mar
2020
 For
years I had two French
books in the International Bibliography of which I wasn't sure they
really exist. Both come from the French publisher Pocket (or Presses
Pocket). I have searched for them for many years, but never found proof
that they really exist. I haven't been able to find or buy them in all
these years.
Les
murs de la Terre
First is the December 1997 French edition of Behind the Walls of Terra,
Les murs de la Terre.
I found an online reference to this one years ago, but that was all. I
hoped to be able to purchase a copy in due time, but no. The shown
cover is of the 1995 reprint.
 Le
privé du cosmos
The second one is the March 1992 French edition of Venus on the Half-Shell,
Le privé du cosmos.
There is still an online link to this one in the French bibliography NooSFere.
But not any actual proof that it exists, neither anywhere else on the
net. The shown cover is of the 1988 first printing.
Because I never in the past 20+ years found copies of these books I
entered both on the page 'Ghost
editions' (see here
and here). I do not
believe they really exist. They may have been announced for release,
but never published.
On both book pages are the ghost editions still to be seen, with an
explanatory note. In due time they will vanish from those pages.
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Up
from the Bottomless Pit cover revealed |
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10 Mar
2020
There
was an entry here on February 1 this year, about the forthcoming book
from Meteor House, Up from the Bottomless Pit.
This week the cover was revealed, drawn by Keith Howell.
The novel will have a foreword by Christopher Paul Carey, and an
introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell.
Originally this novel was announced for a
publication in 1975 by Ballantine Books with the title The Dragon's Breath.
But Ballantine / Del Rey didn't like the novel, and neither the asked
for rewrite. Farmer wrote another novel for them instead, Dark
is the Sun.
This novel was published before in the fanzine Farmerphile,
in ten parts (2005-2007). It was included in the collection Up
from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, published by
Subterranean Press in 2007 in two expensive limited editions.
Meteor House will bring the first trade paperback edition with an
affordable price. You can preorder
it now, it will be shipped in August 2020.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1922
publications
1305 different
covers
There are less covers than publications due to the reprints
with the same cover, and due to omnibuses.
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