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Publication: The Dust Destroyer

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  • Publication: The Dust DestroyerPublication Record # 295125
  • Author: Vargo Statten
  • Date: 1953-02-00
  • Catalog ID: 45099
  • Publisher: Scion Ltd.
  • 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: 127
  • 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: The Dust Destroyer by John Richards
  • Notes:
    • First published in Great Britain in 1953. [This Publication Record].
    • No printing number line in digest.
    • The title is The Dust Destroyer on novel title page, but the front cover and mid-point spine have "The Dust Destroyers".
    • "Scion Scientific Fiction, No. 45099." on copyright page.
    • Cover artist not credited. Signature not found.
    • Adds: synopsis, printing month, cover artist. Information on page 44, Harbottle/Holland.
    • Tuck III, pg. 648, bot. rt. col., states Scion, 1953, 127 pages, 1/6.
  • External IDs:
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Dragoondelight 2009-08-04 06:43:17 Permanent 2010-09-05

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OCLC/Worldcat Verified Dragoondelight 2010-06-15 17:05:07
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