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Title: The Other Wife

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Title: The Other Wife Title Record # 57644
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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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1960 The Coin Collector
Year Language Title
1975Translated by Vittorio Curtoni
Italian Il collezionista di monetine
2023Translated by Nathalie Duport-Serval and Pierre-Paul Durastanti.
French Le numismate

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, 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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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) Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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  
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