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Title: The Musicians Title Record # 76236
Author: Gerald Kersh
Date: 1941-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note:
  • Harlan Ellison's Kersh site notes a possible first appearance in Harper's Bazaar, date unknown, next in the non-genre anthology Modern Reading No. 1, ed. Reginald Moore, Staples & Staples 1941. This anthology has been used to provide an approximate date of first appearance.
  • Also appeared in Best World Short Stories 1947 (eds. J Cournos & HSNK Cournos, Appleton 1947), and Eddie Condon's Treasury Of Jazz (eds. Eddie Condon & Richard Gehman, Dial Press 1956).
  • Genre undetermined, marked as 'non-genre' based on commentary at The Spectre Library.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
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  
The Battle of the Singing Men and Selected Stories 1944-03-00 Gerald Kersh Staples and Staples  
1/6?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).
 
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
coll  
The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories 1944-10-00 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).
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hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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