Title: Silence, Please!

Title: Silence, Please! Title Record # 56746
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1950-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Tales from the White Hart
Language: English
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Year	Title
1950	Silence Please
1950	Silence, Please! [as by Charles Willis]

Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘTranslated by Mr. E. Franquinet	Dutch	Stilte a.u.b.!
1965^ⓘTranslated by Ginetta Pignolo	Italian	Silenzio, Prego
1966^ⓘTranslated by P. Groen	Dutch	Stilte a.u.b.
1973^ⓘTranslated by Mr. E. Franquinet	Dutch	Stilte alstublieft!
1976	Portuguese	Silêncio, Por Favor
1976^ⓘTranslated by Krsto Mažuranić	Croatian	Tiho, molim!
1981^ⓘTranslated by George W. Barlow revised by Tom Clegg	French	L'arme du silence
1984^ⓘTranslated by Hilde Linnert	German	Ruhe, bitte!

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Tales from the White Hart	1957-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	186	$0.35^?$: US dollar	vi+ 151	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	Richard Powers
Across the Sea of Stars	1959-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Longmans (Canada)		C$4.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	584	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Across the Sea of Stars	1959-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Harcourt, Brace & Company		$3.95^?$: US dollar	584	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Across the Sea of Stars	1959-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Harcourt, Brace & World / SFBC		$1.90^?$: US dollar	xii+ 584	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Arthur Hawkins
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1960-05-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Fawcett Gold Medal	s997	$0.35^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1962-09-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Fawcett Gold Medal	k1243	$0.40^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1964-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Gold Medal Books	d1444	$0.50^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers
Tales from the White Hart	1966-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	U2113	$0.50^?$: US dollar	vi+ 151	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	Richard Powers
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1967-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Coronet	2482	3/6^?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	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
Tales from the White Hart	1969-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	01562	$0.75^?$: US dollar	vi+ 151	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
Tales from the White Hart	1969-08-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	01562	$0.75^?$: US dollar	vi+ 151	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
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1969-12-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Fawcett Gold Medal	T2174	$0.75^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers
Tales from the White Hart	1972-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-97910-0	£0.30^?£: UK pound	156	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	Peter Goodfellow
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1972-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Coronet	0-340-02482-8	£0.30^?£: UK pound	192	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
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1972-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	White Lion	0-7082-0028-1		192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Tales from the White Hart	1972-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-97906-2		viii+ 179	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Peter Goodfellow
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1973-00-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Coronet Books	0-340-02482-8	£0.35^?£: UK pound	192	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
Tales from the White Hart	1973-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-97910-0	£0.30^?£: UK pound	156	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	Peter Goodfellow
Tales from the White Hart	1976-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-98365-5	£0.60^?£: UK pound	158	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
Tales from the White Hart	1976-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-97910-0	£0.60^?£: UK pound	158	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
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	1979-07-00	ed. Groff Conklin	Fawcett Gold Medal	0-449-14228-0	$1.50^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers
Tales from the "White Hart"	1979-08-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28730-4		150	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Tales from the "White Hart"	1980-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC	3674	$2.49^?$: US dollar	viii+ 145	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tony Gleeson
Mad Scientists	1982-10-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles Waugh	Raintree Publishers (Science Fiction Shorts)	0-8172-1733-9	$11.95^?$: US dollar	48	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Joel Naprstek
Tales from the White Hart	1986-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-34322-0	$3.95^?$: US dollar	151	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Mad Scientists	1988-00-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles Waugh	Raintree Publishers (Science Fiction Shorts)	0-8172-1733-9	$11.95^?$: US dollar	48	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Joel Naprstek
Tales from the White Hart	1998-10-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-43072-7	$10.00^?$: US dollar	xi+ 173	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	Min Choi
Tales from the White Hart	2007-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	PS Publishing	978-1-905834-78-5	£50.00^?£: UK pound	xi+ 208+ [2]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	J. K. Potter
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction	date unknown	ed. Groff Conklin	Fawcett Gold Medal	T2601	$0.75^?$: US dollar	192	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	Richard Powers

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