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Title: The Dry Spell
Author: Charles E. Fritch
Date: 1954-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION

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  Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Science Fiction Quarterly (UK), #7 1954 1954-00-00 ed. Robert W. Lowndes Thorpe and Porter  
1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
98
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
mag Milton Luros  
Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1954 1954-02-00 ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes Columbia Publications, Inc.; Holyoke, MA  
$0.25?$: US dollar
100
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
mag Milton Luros Checkmark
Future Science Fiction (Australia), #4 1954 1954-07-00 ed. Ronald Forster Blue Diamond Publishing  
1/6d?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
64
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
Future Science Fiction (Australia), #1 1967 1967-04-00 ed. Ronald Forster Page Publications  
A$0.20?A$: Australian dollar
64
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag Keith Chatto  


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