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Title: The Ruined Wall

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Title: The Ruined Wall Title Record # 2379547
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1942-08-14
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: An elderly woman in the south of France recounts how she once foolishly let her house to Vincent van Gogh, who painted an inside wall with an ugly mural.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
John O'London's Weekly, August 14, 1942 1942-08-14 ed. Editors of John O'London's Weekly        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Selected Stories 1943-03-00 Gerald Kersh Staples and Staples (Modern Reading Library #2)  
2/6?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).
 
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".
coll  
Neither Man Nor Dog 1946-03-00 Gerald Kersh 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).
202
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Neither Man Nor Dog 1946-03-00 Gerald Kersh The Ryerson Press      
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
coll  
Esquire, September 1946 1946-09-00 ed. Editors of Esquire        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Neither Man Nor Dog 2015-00-00 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books 978-1-941147-72-6   206
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.
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Neither Man Nor Dog 2015-04-14 Gerald Kersh Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)  
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Lorenzo Princi Checkmark
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