Title: The Alternative

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Title: The Alternative Title Record # 98549
Author: Maurice Baring
Date: 1922-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: The London Mercury, November 1922

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	Price	Pages	Format	Type
Half a Minute's Silence and Other Stories	1925-00-00	Maurice Baring	William Heinemann	8/6^?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).	x+ 204	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Half a Minute's Silence and Other Stories	1925-00-00	Maurice Baring	Doubleday, Page & Company	$2.00^?$: US dollar	x+ 204	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Travelers in Time, Strange Tales of Man's Journeyings Into the Past and the Future	1947-07-00	ed. Philip Van Doren Stern	Doubleday	$3.50^?$: US dollar	483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years