Title: Bartleby
Title Record # 94230
Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1853-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Herman Melville
Date: 1853-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: First published (unsigned) in the magazine Putnam's Monthly, in two parts, November and December 1853.
Synopsis: A lawyer hires a clerk who, after a while, begins to reply to each and every request with, "I would prefer not to."
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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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The Piazza Tales | 1856-05-00 | Herman Melville | Dix & Edwards |
2+ 431 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
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 | ||||
"Come Not, Lucifer!" | 1945-07-00 | ed. uncredited | John Westhouse | 12/6?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). |
267 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Best Horror Stories | 1957-00-00 | ed. John Keir Cross | Faber and Faber | 15/-?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). |
300 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |||
Best Horror Stories | 1962-00-00 | ed. John Keir Cross | Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions) | 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). |
300 | 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 | |||
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | 1990-00-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Lester & Orpen Dennys | 0-88619-124-6 |
xx+ 941 |
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 | George Tooker | ||
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | 1991-01-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Clarkson N. Potter | 0-517-57559-0 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
xx+ 941 |
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 | George Tooker | |
White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature | 1991-04-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Picador | 0-330-31380-0 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
xx+ 941 |
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 | George Tooker | |
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | 1992-06-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Vintage Canada | 0-394-22264-4 | C$20.00?C$: Canadian dollar |
xx+ 941 |
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 | George Tooker | |
Great American Short Stories | 2002-07-23 | ed. Paul Negri | Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) | 0-486-42119-8 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
vi+ 248 |
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 | ||
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | date unknown | ed. Alberto Manguel | Clarkson Potter | 0-517-57559-0 | $17.50?$: US dollar |
xx+ 941 |
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 | George Tooker |