Title: A Short History of Fantasy

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Title: A Short History of Fantasy Title Record # 1152045
Authors: Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Date: 2009-07-16
Type: NONFICTION
Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2017^ⓘTranslated by Simone Heller	German	Eine kurze Geschichte der Fantasy

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	2009 BSFA	Best Non-Fiction
Nominations Below Cutoff	2010 Hugo	Best Related Work

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
A Short History of Fantasy	2009-07-16	Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn	Middlesex University Press	978-1-904750-68-0	£11.99^?£: UK pound	296	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic	Charles Vess
A Short History of Fantasy	2012-04-30	Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn	Libri Publishing	978-1-907471-66-7	£11.99^?£: UK pound	296	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic	Charles Vess
A Short History of Fantasy	2012-10-01	Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn	Libri Publishing	978-1-909818-20-0	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	non-fic	Charles Vess
A Short History of Fantasy	2012-10-01	Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn	Libri Publishing	978-1-907471-64-3	£7.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	non-fic
Eine kurze Geschichte der Fantasy	2017-12-07	Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn	Golkonda	978-3-944720-25-8	€24.90^?€: Euro	334	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic	s.BENeš^?s.BENes

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Reviews

Review by Matthew Cheney (2010) in Strange Horizons, 12 April 2010