Title: His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp
Title Record # 19317
Author: John Collier
Date: 1930-11-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Author: John Collier
Date: 1930-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
Collier's first novel
According to Wikipedia (April 2019), "his career did not take shape until the publication of His Monkey Wife in 1930. It enjoyed a certain small popularity and critical approval that helped to sell his short stories. ... [more on this work]"
Synopsis:
"Alike in tone to his short fiction, his first novel, His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp (1930), is an Equipoisal Apes as Human tale whose treatment of the theme is conspicuously ruthless."
(underscores represent two linked cross-references)
--SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1930-11-00 | John Collier | Peter Davies | 7/6?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). |
274 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1931-00-00 | John Collier | D. Appleton & Company | $2.00?$: US dollar |
301 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1931-00-00 | John Collier | Tauchnitz | 4994 | 279 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1957-00-00 | John Collier | Hart-Davis | 13/6?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). |
185 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1957-00-00 | John Collier | Doubleday | $3.75?$: US dollar |
259 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1957-00-00 | John Collier | Doubleday | C$4.25?C$: Canadian dollar |
259 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1969-11-00 | John Collier | Chatto & Windus (The Landmark Library #16) | 0-7011-1442-8 | 274 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
The John Collier Reader | 1972-11-00 | John Collier | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-46186-X | $10.00?$: US dollar |
xv+ 571 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1975-07-00 | John Collier | Pocket Books | 0-671-78873-6 | $1.50?$: US dollar |
223 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Edward Soyka | |
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1983-12-00 | John Collier | Oxford University Press (Twentieth-Century Classics) | 0-19-281407-9 | £2.95?£: UK pound |
xviii+ 274 |
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. |
novel | Reg Cartwright | |
His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp | 1994-06-00 | John Collier | Robin Clark | 0-86072-166-3 | £8.00?£: UK pound |
xviii+ 274 |
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. |
novel | ||
His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp | 2000-00-00 | John Collier | Paul Dry Books | 0-9664913-3-5 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 214 |
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. |
novel | Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden |
Reviews
- Review by Floyd C. Gale (1957) in Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1957 , reprinted in:
- Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 58 (1958)
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction