Title: Legal Rites

Title: Legal Rites Title Record # 65384
Authors: Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Date: 1950-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
User Rating: None. Including variants and translations: 6.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Year	Title
1950	Legal Rites [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]

Year	Language	Title
1964	Italian	Diritti legali
1973	Italian	Fantasma Legale
1975^ⓘTranslated by Ronald Blunden	French	Bon sang ne saurait mentir [as by Isaac Asimov]
1977^ⓘTranslated by Jean Schalekamp	Dutch	Wettige riten [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]
1977	Italian	Riti legali
1978	Italian	Fantasmi legali
1995^ⓘTranslated by Nemes Ernő	Hungarian	Törvényes rituálék
1998^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Mihai-Dan%20Pavelescu&type=Name&mode=exact">Mihai-Dan Pavelescu</a>	Romanian	Drepturi nescrise [as by Isaac Asimov]

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Weird Tales, September 1950	1950-09-00	ed. D. McIlwraith	Weird Tales		$0.25^?$: US dollar	100	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	Bill Wayne
Br-r-r-!	1959-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Avon	T-289	$0.35^?$: 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.	anth	Richard Powers
The Unexpected	1961-02-00	ed. Leo Margulies	Pyramid Books	G590	$0.35^?$: US dollar	160	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	John Schoenherr
The Unexpected	1962-11-00	ed. Leo Margulies	Pyramid Books	F-795	$0.40^?$: US dollar	160	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	John Schoenherr
Weird Tales of the Supernatural	1966-00-00	ed. Kurt Singer	W. H. Allen		30/-^?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).	352	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying	1972-09-00	Isaac Asimov	Doubleday	0-385-03979-4	$10.00^?$: US dollar	viii+ 540	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Barry Kiperman
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying	1972-12-00	Isaac Asimov	Doubleday & Company / SFBC	5479	$2.98^?$: US dollar	568	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Barry Kiperman
The Edge of Never: Classic and Contemporary Tales of the Supernatural	1973-06-00	ed. Robert Hoskins	Fawcett Premier	M590	$0.95^?$: US dollar	287	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	Larry Kresek
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying	1973-10-00	Isaac Asimov	Doubleday	0-385-03979-4	$10.00^?$: US dollar	viii+ 540	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Barry Kiperman
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying Volume 2	1974-00-00	Isaac Asimov	Panther	0-586-03936-8	£0.35^?£: UK pound	237	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	Chris Foss
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying Volume 2	1974-00-00	Isaac Asimov	Panther	0-586-03936-8	£0.35^?£: UK pound	237	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	Chris Foss
The Early Asimov: Book Two	1974-12-00	Isaac Asimov	Fawcett Crest	P2323	$1.25^?$: US dollar	304	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 Early Asimov: Book Two	1974-12-00	Isaac Asimov	Fawcett Crest	P2323	C$1.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	304	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
Weird Tales of the Supernatural	1975-00-00	ed. Kurt Singer	White Lion	0-85617-464-5	£^?£: UK pound	352	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Early Asimov, Volume 2	1977-03-00	Isaac Asimov	Panther	0-586-03936-8	£0.50^?£: UK pound	237	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 Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying Volume 2	1979-00-00	Isaac Asimov	Panther / Granada	0-586-03936-8	£0.85^?£: UK pound	237	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	Chris Foss
The Third Book of Unknown Tales of Horror	1980-01-00	ed. Peter Haining	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-98584-4	£5.95^?£: UK pound	175	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying Volume 2	1981-00-00	Isaac Asimov	Panther / Granada	0-586-03936-8	£1.50^?£: UK pound	237	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	Chris Foss
The Early Asimov: Book Two	1981-05-12	Isaac Asimov	Fawcett Crest	0-449-23700-1		304	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
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New	1981-10-00	ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye	Doubleday	0-385-18506-5	$13.95^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 652	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Edward Gorey
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New	1982-05-00	ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye	Doubleday / SFBC	5905	$6.98^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 652	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Edward Gorey
The Second Target Book of Horror	1984-11-00	ed. Kurt Singer	Target	0-426-19887-5	£1.60^?£: UK pound	144	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
A Treasury of American Horror Stories	1985-00-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Frank McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh	Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers	0-517-48075-1	$10.00^?$: US dollar	xii+ 670	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Hector Garrido
The Early Asimov: Book 2	1986-02-00	Isaac Asimov	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32589-3	C$4.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	301	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 Early Asimov: Book 2	1986-02-00	Isaac Asimov	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32589-3	$3.95^?$: US dollar	301	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 Star Bumper Horror Book 1	1986-11-00	ed. Kurt Singer	Star	0-352-31944-5	£2.50^?£: UK pound	144	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
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors	1988-07-00	ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg	Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers	0-517-66123-3	$9.98^?$: US dollar	xv+ 655	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Hannes Bok
A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories	1993-10-00	ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye	Little, Brown UK	0-316-90565-8	£15.99^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 381	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories	1994-10-00	ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye	Warner Books UK	0-7515-0968-X	£5.99^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 381	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	Ashley Pearce
Weird Tales	2012-00-00	ed. uncredited	Pulp Classics on DVD				other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	anth	Hannes Bok
The Big Book of Ghost Stories	2012-09-18	ed. Otto Penzler	Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books	978-0-307-47449-0	$25.00^?$: US dollar	xii+ 833	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	Gregg Kulick
The Early Asimov: Book Two	date unknown	Isaac Asimov	Fawcett Crest	23027	$1.75^?$: US dollar	304	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 Early Asimov: Book Two	date unknown	Isaac Asimov	Fawcett Crest	Q2584	$1.50^?$: US dollar	304	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

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction