Title: The Other Wife
Title Record # 57644
Author: Jack Finney
Date: 1960-01-30
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Jack Finney
Date: 1960-01-30
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A bored man living an average life finds a coin that doesn't exist in US history, and is transported into a parallel universe where his life is similar, but different enough to be interesting.
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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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The Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1960 | 1960-01-30 | ed. Editors of The Saturday Evening Post | $0.15?$: US dollar |
tabloid?11" by 16" magazine, usually newsprint, e.g. British Science Fiction Monthly. |
mag | Amos Sewell | ||||
The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F | 1960-09-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Simon & Schuster | $3.95?$: US dollar |
320 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | H. Lawrence Hoffman | ||
The Year's Best S-F: 5th Annual Edition | 1961-01-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Dell | F118 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
320 | 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. |
anth | Richard Powers | |
The Year's Best S-F: 5th Annual Edition | 1961-05-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Dell | F118 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
320 | 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. |
anth | Richard Powers | |
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime | 1963-00-00 | Jack Finney | Simon & Schuster | $3.95?$: US dollar |
224 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | John Alcorn | ||
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: Fantasy and Time Stories | 1965-00-00 | Jack Finney | Eyre & Spottiswoode | 224 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
The Best of Sci-Fi 5 | 1966-10-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Mayflower-Dell | 0531 | 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). |
317 | 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. |
anth | ||
The Best of Sci-Fi 5 | 1967-00-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Mayflower-Dell | 0531 | 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). |
317 | 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. |
anth | ||
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime | 1968-00-00 | Jack Finney | Pan Books | 0-330-02021-8 | 3/6?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). |
172 | 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 | ||
The Best of Sci-Fi 5 | 1969-00-00 | ed. Judith Merril | Mayflower | 0-583-10265-4 | 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). |
317 | 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. |
anth | David Davies (artist) | |
Future Love: A Science Fiction Anthology | 1977-00-00 | ed. Victoria Williams | Macmillan UK (Topliners) | 0-333-21859-0 | £0.45?£: UK pound |
125 | 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. |
anth | Lewis | |
About Time | 1986-08-00 | Jack Finney | Fireside Books / Simon & Schuster | 0-671-62887-9 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
219 | 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 | Lawrence Ratzkin | |
About Time | 1995-02-00 | Jack Finney | Fireside Books / Simon & Schuster | 0-671-62887-9 | $9.95?$: US dollar |
219 | 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 | Lawrence Ratzkin | |
About Time | 1999-06-00 | Jack Finney | Scribner Paperback Fiction | 0-684-84866-X | $11.00?$: US dollar |
219 | 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 | Paul Smith | |
The American Fantasy Tradition | 2002-09-00 | ed. Brian M. Thomsen | Tor | 0-765-30152-0 | $27.95?$: US dollar |
604 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
The American Fantasy Tradition | 2003-09-00 | ed. Brian M. Thomsen | Tor | 0-765-30456-2 | $17.95?$: US dollar |
604 | 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. |
anth | ||
About Time | 2008-10-00 | Jack Finney | Paw Prints | 978-1-4395-0185-6 | $22.95?$: US dollar |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
I Love Galesburg in the Springtime | 2013-08-29 | Jack Finney | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-09320-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
About Time | 2013-11-12 | Jack Finney | Touchstone / Simon & Schuster | 978-1-4391-4448-0 | $11.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
About Time | date unknown | Jack Finney | Scribner Paperback Fiction | 0-684-84866-X | $13.95?$: US dollar |
219 | 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 |