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Title: The Devil's Debt Title Record # 95561
Author: James Platt
Date: 1894-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: "The Devil's Debt" (in quotation marks) In the 1894 collection Tales of the Supernatural, page 159 (viewed at HathiTrust), the story heading is (quote):   "The Devil's Debt." The other story headings are only dotted, not quoted, and none of the six titles is dotted or quoted in the Contents list. One WorldCat library record of the centennial edition lists this story title alone in quotation marks, OCLC 770630169. In 1896 this story was printed and bound, if not published, as "The Devil's Debt" (probably in quotation marks) by "J. Platt" or "J. Platt[...]", BL 002932996.
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1894 "The Devil's Debt" [as by James Platt, Junior]
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tales of the Supernatural: Six Romantic Stories 1894-00-00 James Platt, Junior Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.  
1/-?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).
173
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The First Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories 1974-00-00 ed. Michel Parry Mayflower 0-583-12332-5
£0.40?£: UK pound
222
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 Les Edwards  
Great Black Magic Stories 1977-11-00 ed. Michel Parry Taplinger 0-8008-3618-9
$8.95?$: US dollar
222
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Rus Anderson Checkmark
Tales of the Supernatural 1994-12-00 James Platt Ghost Story Press 0-9520492-7-9
£25.00?£: UK pound
vii+
147
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Austin Osman Spare  
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares 1997-10-00 ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0144-X
$7.98?$: US dollar
596
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Lucy Corvino  
Shadows Gothic and Grotesque 2010-10-11 Ralph Adams Cram, James Platt Coachwhip Publications 978-1-61646-059-4
$14.95?$: US dollar
214
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.
omni  
Tales of the Supernatural: Six Romantic Stories 2022-11-20 James Platt, Junior Project Gutenberg 69397
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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