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Publication: Needle in a Timestack

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  • Publication: Needle in a TimestackPublication Record # 183525
  • Author: Robert Silverberg
  • Date: 1967-00-00
  • Catalog ID: 78417
  • Publisher: Sphere Books
  • Price:
    5/-?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).
  • Pages: 190
  • Format:
    pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: Needle in a Timestack by David Davies
  • Notes:
    • "First published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books Inc."
    • "Copyright © 1966 Robert Silverberg"
    • "First Sphere Books edition, 1967"
    • Printing not stated, no number line
    • Price is listed on back as "5/0", on front as "5/-".
    • Clute/Nicholls mistakenly has this edition as revised from the US one but it was the '79 edition that was changed
    • "Cover Photograph/David Davies" on back cover, designed by Bill Botten per his website
    • Australia 80c; New Zealand 6/6 (65c); South Africa RO. 67; East Africa 6/00
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: Needle in a Timestack • (1966) • collection by Robert Silverberg

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Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
BLongley 2007-04-21 11:49:39 Permanent 2013-12-03
Willem H. 2010-04-08 14:07:39 Permanent 2022-09-05
Stonecreek 2011-10-15 07:01:19 Permanent 2022-09-05
Bluesman 2013-01-23 15:02:13 Permanent 2018-12-28
AndyjMo 2017-05-05 10:26:45 Permanent 2018-06-27

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2012-11-04 13:37:47
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2012-11-04 13:37:47
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Currey N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2010-04-26 09:37:14
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2012-11-04 13:37:47
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2012-11-04 13:37:47
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2012-11-04 13:37:47
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