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  • Publication: A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short StoriesPublication Record # 297660
  • Editor: Nicholas Royle
  • Date: 1996-09-00
  • ISBN: 0-575-06323-8 [978-0-575-06323-5]
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Price:
    £9.99?£: UK pound
  • Pages: 288
  • Format:
    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.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories by Colin Thomas
  • Webpages: archive.org
  • Notes:
    • First edition (likely not stated) of this anthology of 23 stories and three poems associated with the theme of football.
    • Only the items of speculative character or by authors above the genre threshold are indexed for this entry (note: Christopher Kenworthy's "Them Belgiums" on pp. 15-24 is nongenre, but the author might turn out to be above threshold).
    • The copyright of the compilation is likely assigned for the year 1996 to the editor.
    • The copyright of the respective content items is likely assigned for the year 1996 to their authors.
    • There likely are short notes on the authors at the end of each story.
    • The essay that in a usual anthology would be the foreword, the introduction or the afterword is here published as the 'half-time' on pp. 159-162.
    • The pieces are organised in three departments, 'First 45' (pp. 9-158), 'Half-Time' (pp. 159-162), and 'Second 45' (pp. 163-288); the three poems are by John Hegley and are subsumed under the heading 'Hat-trick', but only one of them is of speculative content.
    • Content not indexed for this entry appears on pp. 15-47, 59-82, 132-144, 191-219, 225-245, 267 and 270 & 271.
    • This entry is for the initial printing.
    • A dedication appears on p. 5 (p. 6 is blank).
    • The table of contents is printed on p. 7; short acknowledgements are on p. 8.
    • The cover art is credited and the price is stated on the back cover (according to the Archive.org copy); NOTE that the very same artwork is credited to Chris Moore with a later edition.
    • Data from the OCLC entry for the second printing (OCLC 832990739), the Archive.org copy and a later edition with the same page count (and the likely same organisation of the items); month of publication from Amazon.co.uk.
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Anthology Title: A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories • non-genre • anthology by Nicholas Royle

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