Publication: If, November 1953 [UK]

Publication: If, November 1953 [UK]Publication Record # 482900 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: James L. Quinn
Date: 1953-11-00
Publisher: Strato Publications
Price:
1/6^?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).
Pages: 132
Format:
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".
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: If, Vol. 1 No. 1 [UK] by Ken Fagg (variant of If, March 1953)
Notes: Vol.1 No.1 Pub date from Ashley & Tymn. Issue roughly corresponding to US 03-1953 issue with mostly dropping some paratext and most of the interior illustrations (although the artist are listed on the title pages of the stories.

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Editor Title: If [UK] -1953 • [If [UK]] • edited by James L. Quinn

Contents (view Concise Listing)

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^ⓘfront end paper for books; inside front cover for magazines
• Defense Base on the Moon • (1953) • interior artwork by Ed Valigursky
2 • Deadly City • (1953) • novelette by Paul W. Fairman [as by Ivar Jorgenson]
2 • Deadly City • (1953) • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Ed Emsh]
40 • Margin of Error • (1953) • short story by Richard Deming [as by Richard Deeming]
40 • Margin of Error • (1953) • interior artwork by Bob Martin
46 • The Victor • (1953) • short story by Bryce Walton
61 • Thy Name is Woman • (1953) • short story by Bryce Walton [as by Kenneth O'Hara]
80 • The Sword • (1953) • short story by Frank Quattrocchi
80 • The Sword • (1953) • interior artwork by Tom Beecham
91 • The Rotifers • (1953) • short story by Robert Abernathy
104 • Personalities in Science: Galileo • [Personalities in Science] • (1953) • essay by Eve P. Wulff
107 • The Black Tide • (1953) • short story by Arthur G. Stangland
121 • The Salesman • (1953) • short story by Waldo T. Boyd
124 • Science Briefs (If, March 1953) • (1953) • essay by uncredited
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^ⓘback end paper for books; inside back cover for magazines
• On Target • (1953) • interior artwork by Ed Valigursky