Publication: The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected Stories

Publication: The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected StoriesPublication Record # 673897
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1944-03-00
Publisher: Staples and Staples
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).
Format:
unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- An abbreviated version of the "Selected Stories" collection from 1943, this collection contains only 9 of the original 23 stories. Title page has only "Selected Stories" according to this page at The Spectre Library, so the cover title "The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected Stories" here disambiguates it from "Selected Stories". Because of the brevity of the Contents it is widely recognised as a separate collection.
- Original publications are noted after each title.
- Note from The Spectre Library page that Harlan Ellison's attribution of the publisher "Everybody's Books" appears to be incorrect.
- Cover artist unknown.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Battle of the Singing Men • non-genre • (1939) • short story by Gerald Kersh
13 • Will to Power • non-genre • (1938) • short story by Gerald Kersh
17 • Dudelsack • non-genre • (1942) • short story by Gerald Kersh
20 • The Musicians • non-genre • (1941) • short story by Gerald Kersh
31 • The Undefeated • non-genre • (1941) • short story by Gerald Kersh
41 • The Stone • non-genre • (1941) • short story by Gerald Kersh
47 • The Drunk and the Blind • non-genre • (1938) • short story by Gerald Kersh
54 • Prometheus • non-genre • (1938) • short story by Gerald Kersh
57 • The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy • [Busto's Boarding House] • (1939) • short story by Gerald Kersh

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