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Publication: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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  • Publication: The Case of Charles Dexter WardPublication Record # 309510
  • Author: H. P. Lovecraft
  • Date: 1951-00-00
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • 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: 160
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes: According to Currey: No statement of printing on the copyright page. This text is the version published by Derleth in Night's Yawning Peal (1952) which modernized some of Lovecraft's antiquated spelling, but has a number of serious misprints. Whitaker's Cumulative Book List gives this as published in February 1952. Price from Tuck
  • External IDs:
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 3899947
    • Reginald-1: 09237

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Currey Verified Mhhutchins 2010-02-01 12:26:14
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Reginald1 Verified Mhhutchins 2010-02-01 12:22:00
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2016-01-23 18:53:06
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