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Title: The Tunesmith Title Record # 40844
Author: Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Date: 1957-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1957 Tunesmith
Year Language Title
1965Translated by Галина Усова (Galina Usova)
Russian [as by
Ллойд Биггл-младший?Lloid Biggl-mladshiy
Lloyd Biggl-mladshiy
]
1973Translated by Tony Westermayr
German Der Notenschmied [as by Lloyd Biggle]
1986Translated by Neven Antičević
Croatian Glazbotvorac

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
If, August 1957 1957-08-00 ed. James L. Quinn Quinn Publishing Company, Inc.; Buffalo, NY  
$0.35?$: US dollar
124
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".
mag Mel Hunter Checkmark
Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series 1958-00-00 ed. T. E. Dikty Advent: Publishers  
$3.50?$: US dollar
258
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Julian May Checkmark
Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 9th Series 1958-00-00 ed. T. E. Dikty Frederick Fell / SFBC     258
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series 1958-10-00 ed. T. E. Dikty Advent: Publishers / SFBC  
$1.20?$: US dollar
258
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Julian May Checkmark
1965-00-00 ed. , ()  
RUB 0.58?Rub: Russian or Soviet ruble
277
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.
anth  
1965-00-00 ed. , ()  
RUB 0.68?Rub: Russian or Soviet ruble
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Metallic Muse 1972-07-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Doubleday 0-385-03830-5
$5.95?$: US dollar
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ed Nuckolls Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1972-08-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Doubleday / SFBC 5298
$1.49?$: US dollar
218
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ed Nuckolls Checkmark
Die Muse aus Metall 1973-09-00 Lloyd Biggle Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0174) 3-442-23174-4
DM 4.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
183
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 Morris Scott Dollens Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1974-06-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. DAW Books (DAW Collectors #106) 0-87997-115-0 / UY1115
$1.25?$: US dollar
220
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 George Barr Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1974-06-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. DAW Books / New American Library of Canada UY1115
C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar
220
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 George Barr Checkmark
Sirius, #120 1986-06-05 ed.
Milivoj Pašiček?Milivoj Pasicek
Milivoj Pashichek
Vjesnik  
Din 250?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar
132
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.
mag
Kiro Vinokić-Viki?Kiro Vinokic-Viki
Checkmark
The Great SF Stories #19 (1957) 1989-02-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg DAW Books (DAW Collectors #772) 0-88677-326-1 / UE2326
$4.50?$: US dollar
350
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 Ian Craig Checkmark
Eye for Eye / The Tunesmith 1990-11-00 ed. Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Orson Scott Card Tor (Tor Double #27) 0-812-50854-8
$3.95?$: US dollar
186
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 Mark Ferrari Checkmark
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century 2001-11-00 ed. Orson Scott Card Ace Books 0-441-00864-X
$24.95?$: US dollar
x+
422
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Pyrographx Checkmark
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century 2001-12-00 ed. Orson Scott Card Ace Books / SFBC 11613
$12.50?$: US dollar
x+
422
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Pyrographx Checkmark
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century 2004-03-00 ed. Orson Scott Card Ace Books 0-441-01133-0
$14.00?$: US dollar
x+
422
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.
anth Pyrographx Checkmark
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century date unknown ed. Orson Scott Card Ace Books 0-441-00864-X
$24.95?$: US dollar
x+
422
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Pyrographx Checkmark
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century date unknown ed. Orson Scott Card Ace Books 0-441-01133-0
$16.00?$: US dollar
x+
422
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.
anth Pyrographx Checkmark
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