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Title: The Karmesin Affair Title Record # 2396667
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1962-12-15
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Series: Karmesin
Language: English
Synopsis: Karmesin relates to Kersh how, to help save a friend's private library, he spun a hoax theory about Francis Bacon being the author of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1962First published in The Saturday Evening Post, December 15, 1962 as 'The Karmesin Affair'.
Bone for Debunkers
1966 Karmesin and the Hamlet Promptbook
Year Language Title
1967Translated by Jean Laustenne
French Karmesin Faussaire et Philantrope

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Saturday Evening Post, December 15, 1962 1962-12-15 ed. Editors of The Saturday Evening Post        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver and Other Stories 1965-10-00 Gerald Kersh William Heinemann      
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1966 1966-01-00 ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine    
$0.50?$: US dollar
 
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".
mag  
Mystère #233, June 1967 1967-06-00 ed.
Editors of Mystère?Editors of Mystere
       
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Nightshade & Damnations 1968-00-00 Gerald Kersh Fawcett Gold Medal R1887
$0.60?$: US dollar
192
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.
coll Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon Checkmark
Nightshade & Damnations 1969-00-00 Gerald Kersh Coronet Books / Hodder Fawcett (UK) 0-340-10839-8
5/-?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).
193
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.
coll Josh Kirby  
Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar 2003-06-00 Gerald Kersh Crippen & Landru Publishers (Lost Classics) 1-932009-03-5
$17.00?$: US dollar
169
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.
coll Carol Heyer Checkmark
Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar 2003-06-01 Gerald Kersh Crippen & Landru Publishers (Lost Classics) 1-932009-02-7
$27.00?$: US dollar
170
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Carol Heyer  
Nightshade and Damnations 2013-04-09 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books 978-1-939140-15-9
$14.99?$: US dollar
viii+
154
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.
coll  
Nightshade and Damnations 2013-11-08 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books  
$14.99?$: US dollar
166
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Checkmark
Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar 2016-09-23 Gerald Kersh Crippen & Landru Publishers (Lost Classics)  
$9.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Carol Heyer Checkmark
Nightshade and Damnations 2019-03-26 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books 978-1-948405-35-5
$15.99?$: US dollar
178
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.
coll  
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