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  • Publication: Islands in the SkyPublication Record # 212965
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Date: 1964-00-00
  • Catalog ID: R802
  • Publisher: Digit Books
  • Price:
    2/6?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: 158
  • 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: NOVEL
  • Cover: Islands in the Sky by Robert A. Osborne
  • Notes:
    • From verified copy:
      • "First published by Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. 1952"
      • "Published in Digit Books 1964"
      • unnumbered page 3 lists other Digit Books, The Fantastic Lodge Edited by Helen McGill Hughes at 3/6, Ghosts with a Purpose by Elliott O'Donnell at 3/6, That Kind of Girl by Alastair Revie at 2/6, The Blue Ants by Bernard Newman at 2/6, Autobiography of A Super Tramp by W. H. Davies at 3/6 and The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace at 2/6.
    • Date of 1963 and price of 3/' from Tuck but the cover shows 2/6; only known Digit edition; other sources have the date as 1964 [OCLC/BLIC/Amazon.UK]
    • Cover artist not credited, but RAO signed on art at bottom left corner of front cover.
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

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Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Holmesd 2015-12-28 17:01:21 Transient 2022-08-19
Lem 2021-05-09 21:55:37 Permanent 2022-07-25

Secondary Verifications

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Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Currey N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2011-07-13 18:18:24
Reginald1 Not Verified    
Reginald3 Not Verified    
Tuck Verified Mhhutchins 2007-07-21 19:12:51
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