• Publication: Nine Tales of Space and TimePublication Record # 263668
• Editor: Raymond J. Healy
• Date: 1955-00-00
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Price:
  9/6^?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: 272
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Price from Tuck
  • Spine of boards has "9 TALES ...", but title page has "NINE..."
  • The page headed "ABOUT THIS BOOK" states "not one of which has been published before"; the 1954 US edition isn't acknowledged there or on the copyright page.
  • This edition doesn't have an Introduction (cf the 1954 US Edn).
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3031093

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• 191 • The Chicken Or the Egghead • (1954) • novelette by Frank Fenton (variant of The Chicken Or the Egg-Head)
• 215 • The Great Devon Mystery • (1954) • novelette by Raymond J. Healy
• 241 • Balaam • (1954) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 257 • Man of Parts • (1954) • short story by H. L. Gold