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Title: Sleeping Beauty Title Record # 100030
Author: John Collier
Date: 1938-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A man visits a carnival and is fascinated by one of the sideshows: an exceptionally beautiful woman who is constantly asleep and who visitors can pay a quarter to kiss. He buys her and finds a doctor to cure her sleeping sickness. On being awakened, she states that she prefers show business to being this prince's princess. But he is not willing to let her go.
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Year Language Title
1965Translated by Else Hoog
Dutch De Schone Slaapster

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Presenting Moonshine 1941-01-00 John Collier The Viking Press  
$2.50?$: US dollar
327
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll E. McKnight Kauffer  
Presenting Moonshine 1941-01-00 John Collier Macmillan of Canada  
C$3.00?C$: Canadian dollar
327
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Presenting Moonshine 1941-01-00 John Collier Macmillan and Co.  
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).
351
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Fancies and Goodnights 1951-11-00 John Collier Doubleday  
$4.00?$: US dollar
364
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Margot Tomes Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 1953-04-00 John Collier Bantam Books (Bantam Giant) A1106
$0.35?$: US dollar
506
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.
coll Charles Binger Checkmark
Presenting Moonshine 1957-00-00 John Collier Hart-Davis  
13/6?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).
192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Fancies and Goodnights 1957-12-00 John Collier Bantam Books F1703
$0.50?$: US dollar
375
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.
coll  
Fancies and Goodnights 1963-00-00 John Collier Bantam Books (Bantam Classic) SC91
$0.75?$: US dollar
418
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.
coll Checkmark
De Stalen Kat 1965-00-00 John Collier De Arbeiderspers (Grote ABC #27)  
ƒ7.50?ƒ: Dutch guilder
279
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.
coll
Ferenc Gögös?Ferenc Goegoes
Checkmark
The Edge of the Chair 1967-00-00 ed. Joan Kahn Harper & Row 0-06-012238-2
$6.95?$: US dollar
xii+
560
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Fancies and Goodnights 1969-00-00 John Collier Bantam Books N4614
$0.95?$: US dollar
xii+
418
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.
coll  
The Graveyard Shift 1970-01-00 ed. Joan Kahn Dell 3038
$0.75?$: US dollar
319
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 Joseph Lombardero Checkmark
The John Collier Reader 1972-11-00 John Collier Alfred A. Knopf 0-394-46186-X
$10.00?$: US dollar
xv+
571
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 1981-03-00 John Collier Doubleday / SFBC 5749
$5.50?$: US dollar
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Tony Fiyalko Checkmark
Fancies and Goodnights 2003-05-00 John Collier New York Review of Books (NYRB Classics) 1-59017-051-2
$14.95?$: US dollar
xi+
418
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.
coll Neo Rauch  
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