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Title: The Sun—Our Nearest Star

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Title: The Sun—Our Nearest Star Title Record # 2333967
Author: W. H. Rosse
Date: 1954-08-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Space Fact and Fiction, August 1954 1954-08-00 ed. Gerald G. Swan Gerald G. Swan  
-/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).
36
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
mag David Williams (UK artist 1950s)  
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