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Title: The Old Oaken Eight-Ball

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Title: The Old Oaken Eight-Ball Title Record # 74063
Author: Richard Sale
Date: 1941-03-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Captain McGrail
Language: English
Note: " ... there was nothing more joyous in DFW [Detective Fiction Weekly] than Richard Sale's series of Captain McGrail stories ... Every dossier from the McGrail files teeters on the precise balance-point between everyday homicide and pure fantasy ..." -- editor's intro to story
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Year Language Title
1955 French
Ça, c'est du billard !?Ca, c'est du billard !

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1953 1953-09-00 ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas Fantasy House, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Jack Coggins Checkmark
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK], February 1954 1954-02-00 ed. uncredited Mellifont Press Ltd.  
1/6?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).
132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Jack Coggins  
Fiction, #15 1955-02-00 ed. Editors of Fiction OPTA  
F100?F: French frank
132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag George Gibbons Checkmark
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