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Title: The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It

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Title: The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It Title Record # 69899
Author: John Collier
Date: 1941-05-03
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: "A man tried for murder and acquitted for lack of motive tells his story to sympathetic friends." (Wikipedia)
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1967Translated by Ingrid Neumann
German
Muskatnuß gibt die Würze?Muskatnuss gibt die Wuerze
1969Translated by Else Hoog
Dutch Snuifje Nootmuskaat

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The New Yorker, May 3, 1941 1941-05-03 ed. Editors of the New Yorker        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories 1943-00-00 John Collier The Press of the Readers Club  
$2.00?$: US dollar
viii+
247
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales 1945-00-00 John Collier Editions for the Armed Services 871
$0.00?$: 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.
coll  
Fancies and Goodnights 1951-11-00 John Collier Doubleday  
$4.00?$: US dollar
364
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Margot Tomes Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 1953-04-00 John Collier Bantam Books (Bantam Giant) A1106
$0.35?$: US dollar
506
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 Charles Binger Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 1957-12-00 John Collier Bantam Books F1703
$0.50?$: US dollar
375
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
Fancies and Goodnights 1963-00-00 John Collier Bantam Books (Bantam Classic) SC91
$0.75?$: US dollar
418
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
Fancies and Goodnights (selections) 1965-00-00 John Collier Time-Life Books (Time Reading Program)  
$?$: US dollar
xix+
328
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 Seymour Chwast Checkmark
Of Demons and Darkness 1965-00-00 John Collier Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers FS7126
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).
xii+
303
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  
22 Horror-Stories 1967-00-00 ed. A. D. Krauss, H. W. Mommers Heyne (Heyne-Anthologien #26) HA26
DM 4.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
295
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  
De Dame op de Schimmel 1969-00-00 John Collier De Arbeiderspers (Grote ABC #127)     255
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
Ferenc Gögös?Ferenc Goegoes
Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 1969-00-00 John Collier Bantam Books N4614
$0.95?$: US dollar
xii+
418
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  
A Shocking Thing 1974-11-00 ed. Damon Knight Pocket Books 0-671-77775-0
$0.95?$: US dollar
245
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 Gerry McConnell Checkmark
A Shocking Thing 1974-11-00 ed. Damon Knight Pocket Books 0-671-77775-0
C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar
245
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 Gerry McConnell Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights (selections) 1980-00-00 John Collier Time-Life Books (Time Reading Program)  
$?$: US dollar
xix+
328
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 Seymour Chwast Checkmark
50 Great American Short Stories 1980-08-00 ed. Milton Crane Bantam Books (Bantam Literature) 0-553-14528-2
$2.95?$: US dollar
x+
502
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  
Fancies and Goodnights 1981-03-00 John Collier Doubleday / SFBC 5749
$5.50?$: US dollar
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Tony Fiyalko Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 2003-05-00 John Collier New York Review of Books (NYRB Classics) 1-59017-051-2
$14.95?$: US dollar
xi+
418
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 Neo Rauch  
Best Murder Stories date unknown ed. Cyril Ray Faber and Faber  
22/-?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).
224
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
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