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Title: There Is a Tide ... Title Record # 74256
Author: Jack Finney
Date: 1952-08-02
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Originally published in Collier's, 2 August 1952.
Synopsis: A man lies awake in the middle of the night worrying about his future. He is interrupted by the sight of a ghost shuffling through his living room, and afraid that the forlorn spectre is an image of his future self, he sets off to discover its identity.
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1955 French
Le fantôme à la fenêtre?Le fantome a la fenetre
1960Translated by unknown
Japanese
上げ潮?あげしお
Ageshio
[as by ]
2014Translated by Annarita Guarnieri
Italian C'è una marea ...
2023Translated by by an unknown hand, revised in 2023 Le Bélial' pub by Pierre-Paul Durastanti.
French
Il est une marée?Il est une maree

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Collier's, August 2, 1952 1952-08-00 ed. Editors of Collier's        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1954 1954-09-00 ed. Anthony Boucher 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 Nick Solovioff Checkmark
The Third Level 1957-00-00 Jack Finney Rinehart  
$3.00?$: US dollar
256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ben Feder Checkmark
The Third Level 1957-12-00 Jack Finney Rinehart / SFBC  
$1.00?$: US dollar
188
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ben Feder Checkmark
The Clock of Time 1958-00-00 Jack Finney Eyre & Spottiswoode  
13/6?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).
189
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Third Level 1959-03-00 Jack Finney Dell D274
$0.35?$: 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.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
The Clock of Time 1960-01-00 Jack Finney The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) 42
5/6?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).
189
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Clock of Time 1961-00-00 Jack Finney Panther 1193
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).
156
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 Clock of Time 2012-11-30 Jack Finney Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-09319-5
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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