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Title: The Insufficient Answer

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Title: The Insufficient Answer Title Record # 624757
Author: Robert Aickman
Date: 1951-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Year Language Title
2022Translated by Usch Kiausch
German Die unzureichende Antwort

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
We Are for the Dark 1951-00-00 Robert Aickman, Elizabeth Jane Howard Jonathan Cape  
10/6?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).
285
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
We Are for the Dark 1965-12-00 Robert Aickman, Elizabeth Jane Howard Mayflower-Dell 9438
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).
174
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
Girls' Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories 1997-09-00 ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0424-4
$9.98?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
545
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Collected Strange Stories, Volume I 1999-11-00 Robert Aickman Tartarus Press 1-872621-47-3
£35.00?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
xvi+
399
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Steven Stapleton  
The Collected Strange Stories, Volume I 2001-00-00 Robert Aickman Tartarus Press & Durtro Press 1-872621-47-3
£35.00?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
xi+
398
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Steven Stapleton  
We Are for the Dark 2011-11-00 Robert Aickman, Elizabeth Jane Howard Tartarus Press 978-1-905784-42-4
£32.50?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
xii+
258
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Stephen J. Clark  
Dunkle Pforten 2022-11-29 Robert Aickman Festa (Festa Weird Fiction #3)  
€36.99?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR
476
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll John Singer Sargent Checkmark
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