ISFDB banner

Publication: A Thing of the Past

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

picture
  • Publication: A Thing of the PastPublication Record # 321292
  • Author: Volsted Gridban
  • Date: 1953-09-00
  • 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: 128
  • 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: A Thing of the Past by Philip Mendoza [as by Ferrari]
  • Notes: Adds: Information on page 39, Harbottle/Holland. Artist is second sourced as Ferrari also, but H&H adds (Philip Mendoza). Tuck III, pg. 649, top lt. col., states Scion, 1953, 128 pages, and 1/6. WorldCat: Pseudonym relationship not shown.
  • External IDs:
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 7670397
    • Reginald-1: 05291
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Bleiler Supernatural N/A Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
Bleiler78 N/A Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Clute/Grant N/A Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Clute/Nicholls Verified Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
Currey N/A Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Locus1 N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
Miller/Contento N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
Reginald1 Verified Chris J 2016-03-07 19:34:46
Reginald3 N/A Dragoondelight 2010-07-05 16:46:11
Tuck Verified Rtrace 2021-04-22 18:27:05
Copyright © 1995-2022 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)
ISFDB is an Amazon Associate in order to have access to Amazon's product data. As an Amazon Associate ISFDB earns from qualifying purchases.