Title: John Jones's Dollar
Title Record # 57490
Author: Harry Stephen Keeler
Date: 1915-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Harry Stephen Keeler
Date: 1915-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: The eponymous socialist invests one dollar, which eventually grows to become an incredible fortune used to found a Fabian Socialist society. Probably the first story of its kind.
Available on page 209, Bleiler (Gernsback).
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| The Black Cat, August 1915 | 1915-08-00 | ed. Editors of The Black Cat | The Shortstory Publishing Co. | $0.10?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
64 | octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued |
mag | |||
| Amazing Stories, April 1927 | 1927-04-00 | ed. Hugo Gernsback | Experimenter Publishing Company | $0.25?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
96 | bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding. |
mag | Frank R. Paul |  |
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| Strange Ports of Call | 1948-04-00 | ed. August Derleth | Pellegrini & Cudahy | $4.00?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
[8]+ 393 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| Strange Ports of Call | 1949-12-00 | ed. August Derleth | Pellegrini & Cudahy |
[8]+ 393 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
| Amazing Stories, April 1956 | 1956-04-00 | ed. Howard Browne | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company | $0.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
260 | 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 | Edward Valigursky | |
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| Fantasia Mathematica | 1958-00-00 | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Simon & Schuster | $4.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xix+ 298 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| Fantasia Mathematica | 1997-05-00 | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Copernicus | 0-387-94931-3 | $19.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xix+ 298 |
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 | Ilya Bolotowsky | |
| John Jones's Dollar | 2008-10-10 | Harry Stephen Keeler | Project Gutenberg | 26867 | $0.00?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | |
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| The Man Who Found Zero: Early Science Fiction and Weird Fantasy from The Black Cat, 1896–1915 | 2011-07-19 | ed. Gene Christie | Black Dog Books | 978-1-884449-18-5 | $16.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
166 | 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 | Leo Morey | |
| The Rivals of H. G. Wells, Vol. I (Short Stories and Novelettes) | 2021-00-00 | ed. Charles G. Waugh, Don Wismer | Sam Teddy Publishing | 978-1-943022-32-8 | $29.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
461 | 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 | ||
| Fantasia Mathematica | date unknown | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Simon & Schuster | $1.45?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xix+ 298 |
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 | Milton Glaser |
Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years