Fly-by-night: September 2018

Friday 28 September 2018

Export Publishing Bibliography Part V

The name of this blog is from a review of an Export Publishing PBO. It is the only review I have found of any of Export's 52 PBOs.

“Two things, perhaps, excuse our giving [The Winter of Time] so much space: first, that there is some reasonably good writing in it, whence it is shameful that Mr. Holmes should have aimed so low; second, that this kind of book, deliberately offered by some fly-by-night publisher in the hope of wringing a few dollars from the sex-starved, is a relatively new thing in Canadian publishing. Or do I not get around enough?”

Allan Sangster, “The Winter of Time”, The Canadian Forum, May 1950 pp. 45, 46.

Below is the bibliographic entry for The Winter of Time. The author is Raymond Souster, a well known Canadian poet.

85 The Winter of Time

A1.a.

Collation: pp. [1-4] 5-160; 178 x 108 mm.

Contents: p. [1] About this book… [2] NEWS STAND LIBRARY POCKET EDITION | First Printing NOVEMBER, 1949 | Printed and Bound in Canada | Export Publishing Enterprises Limited | TORONTO LONDON NEW YORK; [3] title; [4] blank; 5-160 text.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers pattern with logo – red.

Note: Paperback original. Pseudonym of Raymond Souster. Signed art by D. Rickard.

A1.b.

Collation: [1-5¹⁶].

Binding: Stapled gatherings. Inside covers pattern with logo – black. Title and author name on back cover shifted to the left 5 mm and 8 mm respectively. Yellow blob on fire hydrant, lower left front cover.

Thursday 27 September 2018

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Last Friday was the 65th anniversary of the broadcast of the first film version of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Eddie Albert is Winston and Canada's Lorne Greene (1915-1987) is O'Brien.

The first Canadian edition of Nineteen Eight-Four was published in 1949 by S. J. Reginald Saunders of Toronto. I don't know when or if a Canadian paperback edition was published. Here are the first US and UK paperbacks plus a glimpse of a younger Lorne Greene at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Penguin 972 - 1954

Penguin 972 back

Signet 798 - July 1950

Signet 798 back

Tuesday 25 September 2018

Export Publishing Bibliography Part IV

My Export Publishing bibliography is now finished. Here are a couple more entries. These are two of the more uncommon books that Export published.

122 The Gorilla’s Daughter

A1.

Collation: pp. [1-4] 5-127 [128-130] 131-160; 177 x 107 mm.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – greenish brown.

Note: Paperback original. “This Book at a Glance” on page [1] and back cover blurb have “defenseless” spelled as “defenceless.”

A2.a. second printing – number R122

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – blue. Back cover blurb has “defenseless” spelled correctly but “This Book at a Glance” is still incorrect.

A2.b.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – light black. Back cover blurb and “This Book at a Glance” as A2.a.

123 Spicy Detective Stories

A1.

Collation: pp. [1-4] 5-98 [99] 100-160 177 x 108 mm.

Contents: p. [1] This Book at a Glance; [2] NEWS STAND LIBRARY POCKET EDITION | Printed and Bound in Canada | First Printing | August 1950 | Export Publishing Enterprises Limited | TORONTO LONDON NEW YORK; [3] title; [4] blank; 5-24 Silk Stocking Clue; 25-40 Murder Debt; 41-58 The Thin Dame; 59-78 Gypsum Blizzard; 79-96 Lady Dick; 97-118 Case of the Limber Corpse; 119-136 Death in the Third Act; 137-144 Killer’s Rights; 145-160 Star Witness.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – blue.

Note: Paperback original. The stories were first published in the May 1937 issue (Volume 7 #1), of the American pulp of the same name published by New York’s Culture Publications. The front cover lists the first eight stories with the title “Eight Daring Detective Stories”. The ninth story, Star Witness, is missing. A comic strip in the pulp is not in the Export book.

The listed authors are:

Silk Stocking – N. Wooten Poge. Pseudonym of Norvell W. Page.

Murder Debt – Ellery Watson Calder. Pseudonym of Robert Leslie.

The Thin Dime – Robert A. Garron. Pseudonym of Howard Wandrei.

Gypsum Blizzard – Robert Leslie Bellem.

Lady Dick – Arthur Wallace.

Case of the Limber Corpse – Cary Moran. Pseudonym of Edwin Truett Long.

Death in the 3^rd Act – Ken Cooper.

Killer’s Right – Colby Quinn.

Star Witness – Peter Grant.

Tuesday 18 September 2018

Export Publishing Bibliography Part III

Here are two more entries from my bibliography of early Canadian paperback publisher Export Publishing. These are two of the 28 books Export published for the US market. But first some comments on bibliography.

A descriptive bibliography includes the following techniques: (a) transcription of the title page, (b) collation of the book, (c) details of the book’s contents, (d) list of states, (e) binding information and (f) other information about the book.

Capital letters designate editions, numbers following the letter designate impressions (printings) and lowercase letters designate states. An edition is defined as all copies resulting from a single job of typographical composition such as plates. An impression is all copies of an edition printed at the same time and a state is a variation in an impression, either of the text block or the wrappers.

6A Sin For Your Supper

A1.

Collation: pp. [1-4] 5-160; 180 x 111 mm.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – light gray.

Note: Paperback original.

A1.DJ

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration as A1.a. Dust jacket attached at spine – number 19.

7A The Pagans

A1.

THE PAGANS | By JACK BENEDICT | [ornament: company logo] |A NEWS STAND LIBRARY | POCKET EDITION

Collation: pp. [1-4] 5-160; 179 x 102 mm.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration – light gray.

Note: Paperback original. Unsigned art by D. Rickard. At p.53 there is an error in the text.

B1.

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration light gray.

Note: Text reset starting at p.53 correcting the error in A1.

B1.DJ

Binding: Perfect. Inside covers illustration as A1. and B1. Dust jacket attached at spine – number 14.

Sunday 16 September 2018

Export Publishing Bibliography Part II

In the first part of the Export Publishing Bibliography I gave two examples of the entries. Here are two more from the spring of 1949.

39 Nightfall

A1.a.

N | I | G | H | T | F | A | L | L | By DAVID GOODIS | [ornament: company logo] | A NEWS STAND LIBRARY POCKET EDITION

Collation: [1-5¹⁶]; pp. [1-4] 5-155 [156-158] 159 [160]; 177 x 108 mm.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration – vivid red. Spine blue.

Note: First published New York: Julian Messner, 1947. Unsigned art by D. Rickard.

A1.b.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration as A1.a. Spine yellow green. Front cover blue different shade than A1.a.

A1.c.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration – vivid blue. Spine and front cover as A1.b.

29 Lady of Lust

A1.

Collation: [1-5¹⁶]; pp. [1-4] 5-153 [154-160]; 174 x 109 mm.

Contents: p. [1] About This Book; [2] COPYRIGHT, 1947, BY PHOENIX PRESS | FIRST NEWS STAND LIBRARY POCKET EDITION, MARCH, 1949 | EXPORT PUBLISHING ENTERPRISES LIMITED | 3079 DUNDAS ST. W. TORONTO 9, ONTARIO; [3] title [4] blank; 5-153 text; [154] blank; [155] A Select List… | NEWS STAND LIBRARY BEST SELLERS; [156] BLANK; [157] ASK YOUR NEWSDEALER | FOR NEWSSTAND LIBRARY’S | TITLE OF THE MONTH | Eager Is The Flesh | By RICHARD McMULLEN | [description of book]; [158-160] blank.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration – vivid red.

Note: First published New York: Phoenix Press, 1947 as The Fallen Woman. Pseudonym of Leona Slottman who also wrote as Gladys Sloan.

Saturday 15 September 2018

Export Publishing Bibliography Part I

I've alerted readers to a couple of my guides to early Canadian paperback publishers. I've also been working on a bibliography of the other large publisher in the late 40s - Export Publishing. This is a more detailed accounting than the guides. Each of the 190 books has an entry which includes an image of the cover and bibliographic information.

Here are a couple of examples. The first is one of the first two books Export published without a number. No date on these early books but May-July 1948.

Artists, Models and Murder

ARTISTS, MODELS | and MURDER | TEDD STEELE

Collation: [1-2¹²3-5¹⁶]; pp. [1-6] 7-70 [71] 72-93 [94] 95-141 [142-144]; 174 x 103 mm.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration – light bluish green.

Note: First published Toronto: Crown Novel Publishing, 1946.

05 Comments on the Kinsey Report and Other Authoritative Articles on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

Collation: [1-4¹⁶]; pp. [1-4] 7-130 = 128 pages; 174 x 115 mm.

Binding: Stapled signatures. Inside covers illustration – moderate red.