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Title: The Ideal Title Record # 58715
Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum
Date: 1935-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Professor Manderpootz
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English
Note: The appearance in Damon Knight's A Century of Science Fiction is an excerpt. Wonder Stories, September 1935, illustrated by Frank R. Paul.
Synopsis: Available on page 479, Bleiler (Gernsback).
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Translations
Year Language Title
1980Translated by Leni Sobez
German Das Ideal
1996Translated by Mihaela Crișan
Romanian Idealul
2001Translated by Maurizio Nati
Italian L'ideale
2007Translated by Françoise Jackson
French
L'idéal?L'ideal
2017 Hungarian Az eszménygép
2022Translated by Gustavo Terranova
Portuguese O ideal

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Wonder Stories, September 1935 1935-09-00 ed. Hugo Gernsback Continental Publications  
$0.15?$: US dollar
132
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 Paul Checkmark
Startling Stories, June 1943 1943-06-00 ed. Oscar J. Friend Better Publications, Inc.  
$0.15?$: US dollar
132
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 Earle K. Bergey Checkmark
A Martian Odyssey and Others 1949-00-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Fantasy Press  
$3.00?$: US dollar
289
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll A. J. Donnell Checkmark
Fantastic Story Quarterly, Spring 1950 1950-04-00 ed. Sam Merwin, Jr. Best Books, Inc.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
164
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 Earle Bergey Checkmark
A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales 1974-00-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction) 0-88355-123-3
$13.50?$: US dollar
xxix+
555
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Virgil Finlay Checkmark
A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales 1974-00-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction) 0-88355-152-7
$5.75?$: US dollar
xxx+
556+
[6]
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 Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1974-04-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Ballantine Books 0-345-23890-7
$1.65?$: US dollar
xii+
306
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1974-04-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Ballantine Books 0-345-23890-7
C$1.65?C$: Canadian dollar
xii+
306
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1974-06-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Ballantine Books (Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction) 0-345-23890-7
$1.65?$: US dollar
xii+
306
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
A Martian Odyssey and Other Stories 1977-10-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Sphere 0-7221-8960-5
£0.95?£: UK pound
316
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 Peter Elson Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1979-01-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Del Rey / Ballantine (Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction) 0-345-27965-4
$1.95?$: US dollar
xii+
306
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1979-01-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Del Rey / Ballantine (Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction) 0-345-27965-4
C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar
xii+
306
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum 1983-03-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Garland Publishing (The Best Science Fiction) 0-8240-4213-1
$19.95?$: US dollar
 
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Dawn of Flame & Other Science Fiction Classics 2003-07-17 Stanley G. Weinbaum PageTurner Editions / Renaissance E Books  
$3.02?$: US dollar
83
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Herman Vestal  
Strange Genius 2006-04-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Leonaur Ltd 1-84677-048-3
£9.99?£: UK pound
270
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  
Strange Genius 2006-04-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Leonaur Ltd 1-84677-055-6
£17.99?£: UK pound
270
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Ideal 2007-10-05 Stanley G. Weinbaum Project Gutenberg 22897    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap  
The Martian Odyssey and Other SF 2008-02-01 Stanley G. Weinbaum Aegypan 978-1-60312-491-1
$10.95?$: US dollar
124
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  
A Martian Odyssey: Stanley G. Weinbaum's Worlds of If 2008-10-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Wildside Press 978-1-4344-7719-4
$19.99?$: US dollar
130
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
A Martian Odyssey: Stanley G. Weinbaum's Worlds of If 2008-10-00 Stanley G. Weinbaum Wildside Press 978-1-4344-7718-7
$9.99?$: US dollar
130
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  
Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum 2009-01-14 Stanley G. Weinbaum LibriVox  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
coll  
The Ideal 2009-02-06 Stanley G. Weinbaum Dodo Press 978-1-4065-7685-6
£6.99?£: UK pound
48
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.
chap  
Polygraff, v1 #2 2010-01-00 ed. Andrew Bernstein Polymancer Studios  
$4.95?$: US dollar
 
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag John Bell  
The Wordsworth Collection of Science Fiction 2011-12-00 ed. David Stuart Davies Wordsworth Editions 978-1-84022-656-0
£6.99?£: UK pound
xiv+
1312
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 Nathan Clair Checkmark
The 27th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack 2015-12-02 Stanley G. Weinbaum Wildside Press 978-1-4794-0783-5
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Ideal 2017-01-07 Stanley G. Weinbaum Project Gutenberg Canada 1389
C$0.00?C$: Canadian dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap Checkmark
Fantastic Story Quarterly, Spring 1950 date unknown ed. Sam Merwin, Jr. Pulp Tales Press  
$12.95?$: US dollar
162
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 Earle Bergey  
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