Title: The Bagman's Story
Title Record # 62301
Author: Charles Dickens
Date: 1837-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Charles Dickens
Date: 1837-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Chapman & Hall, 1837.
Synopsis: A young man staying at an inn notes the widowed landlady being wooed by a man who is secretly merely after her money, as the unusually ornate high-backed chair in his room reveals to him.
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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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Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors | 1910-09-00 | ed. Adam L. Gowans | Gowans & Gray (Gowans's New Sixpenny Series #2) | -/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). |
128 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors | 1912-06-00 | ed. Adam L. Gowans | Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library) | 1/-?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). |
225 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Famous Ghost Stories | 1918-07-00 | ed. J. Walker McSpadden | Thomas Y. Crowell (The "Mystery" Library) | $1.25?$: US dollar |
x+ 302 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors | 1919-01-00 | ed. Adam L. Gowans | Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2) | 2/-?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). |
225 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors | 1920-10-00 | ed. Adam L. Gowans | Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2) | 225 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
Weird Tales, October 1926 | 1926-10-00 | ed. Farnsworth Wright | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | $0.25?$: US dollar |
148 | 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 | C. Barker Petrie, Jr. | ||
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) | 1937-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #315) |
viii+ 507 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories | 1938-02-00 | J. Walker McSpadden | Blue Ribbon Books | $0.98?$: US dollar |
xii+ 305+ x+ 302 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |||
Shapes of the Supernatural | 1969-00-00 | ed. Gogo Lewis, Seon Manley | Doubleday | 0-385-04116-0 | $5.95?$: US dollar |
371 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Covington | |
The Supernatural in Fiction | 1973-00-00 | ed. Leo P. Kelley | McGraw-Hill (Patterns in Literary Art) | 0-07-033497-8 | $3.96?$: US dollar |
[iv]+ 313 |
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 | ||
The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens | 1978-00-00 | Charles Dickens | John Calder; Riverrun Press | 0-7145-3678-4 | £4.95?£: UK pound |
159 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories | 1984-00-00 | Charles Dickens | Alan Sutton (Pocket Classics) | 0-86299-152-8 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
x+ 138 |
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 Signalman and Other Ghost Stories | 1988-02-00 | Charles Dickens | Academy Chicago | 0-89733-307-1 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
138 | 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 Signalman and Other Ghost Stories | 1996-02-00 | Charles Dickens | Alan Sutton (Pocket Classics) | 0-86299-858-1 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
256 | 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 | ||
My Favorite Fantasy Story | 2000-08-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1161) | 0-88677-905-7 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
viii+ 423 |
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 | Les Edwards | |
Classic Tales of the Supernatural | 2001-00-00 | ed. Robin Brockman | Arcturus Publishing | 1-84193-013-X | 519 | 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 | Paul Ashby | ||
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural | 2002-00-00 | ed. Robin Brockman | Gramercy Books | 0-517-22095-4 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
519 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Ashby | |
My Favorite Fantasy Story | 2004-07-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg | ibooks | 0-7434-8744-3 | $11.95?$: US dollar |
viii+ 423 |
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 | Les Edwards | |
Dust 'n' Bones | 2007-09-28 | ed. Chris Mould | Hodder Children's Books | 978-0-340-89326-5 | 96 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Dust 'n' Bones | 2007-10-18 | ed. Chris Mould | Hodder Children's Books | 978-0-340-89327-2 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
96 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Dust 'n' Bones | 2008-10-16 | ed. Chris Mould | Hodder Children's Books | 978-0-340-95070-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
144 | 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 | ||
The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens | 2010-04-01 | Charles Dickens | Oneworld Classics | 978-0-7145-4333-8 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | ||
Weird Tales | 2019-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Pulp Classics on DVD | other?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes. |
anth | Margaret Brundage | ||||
Weird Tales, October 1926 | date unknown | ed. Farnsworth Wright | Girasol Collectables | $35.00?$: US dollar |
144 | 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 | C. Barker Petrie, Jr. |