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Publication: Pacific Advance

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  • Publication: Pacific AdvancePublication Record # 266405
  • Author: G. R. Melde
  • Date: 1954-03-00
  • Publisher: Curtis Warren
  • Price:
    1/6?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: 159
  • Format:
    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".
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: Pacific Advance by Gordon C. Davies
  • Notes:
    • No printing, edition, printing number line or book number in/on book. [This Publication Record].
    • "Copyright January 1954" on last not numbered page.
    • Stapled front to back page. Cover glued on.
    • Artist not credited in book. Signature not found.
    • Adds: synopsis, printing month, artist. Title "Pacific Adventure" is wrong. Information on page 83, Harbottle/Holland.
    • Tuck III, pg. 678, top lt. col., under "G. R. Melde", states Curtis War., 1954, 159 pages, 1/6. (identical hardcover edition 6/-). Pseudonym not made to author.
    • OCLC: ©1954. Pseudonym relationship not made. No differencing between hardcover and softcover editions.
  • External IDs:
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Dragoondelight 2010-05-05 17:05:18 Permanent 2010-12-01

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Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Dragoondelight 2010-05-05 17:05:18
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Clute/Nicholls Verified Rtrace 2021-02-10 21:56:13
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-04 08:28:39
Currey N/A Rtrace 2021-02-10 21:56:13
Locus1 N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-04 08:28:39
Miller/Contento N/A Dragoondelight 2010-05-05 17:05:18
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Dragoondelight 2010-07-04 08:28:39
Reginald1 N/A Rtrace 2021-02-10 21:56:13
Reginald3 N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-04 08:28:39
Tuck Verified Rtrace 2021-02-10 21:56:13
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