Title: None Before Me
Title Record # 96725
Author: Sidney Carroll
Date: 1949-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Sidney Carroll
Date: 1949-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: "None Before Me" is about a miserly old man that has made it his goal in life to collect the very best of everything, be it the finest piece of carved ivory in the world or the largest diamond money can buy. A local salesman invites him to his shop one afternoon to show him a new piece for his collection - the very best doll house in the world. The miser becomes obsessed with the dollhouse and with its miniature occupants to the point that he shuts himself off from the rest of the world and becomes insulated. He elevates himself to the station of God over the dollhouse, and he begins to act accordingly devoting all his time to animating and altering the lives of those inanimate bits of finely carved woodwork. -- from a review
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Cosmopolitan, July 1949 | 1949-07-00 | ed. Editors of Cosmopolitan, Herbert R. Mayes | Hearst Magazines, Inc. | $0.35?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
176 | bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding. |
mag | |||
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1952-09-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | A944 | $0.35?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
306 | 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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1961-12-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Sixty) | H2343 | $0.60?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xiii+ 258 |
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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1962-01-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1967-03-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Sixty) | H3358 | $0.60?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xiii+ 258 |
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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1968-01-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 258 | 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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1968-09-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 258 | 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 | ||||
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1968-11-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books |
xiii+ 258 |
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 | ||||
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1970-08-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | S5372 | $0.75?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1972-08-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Pathfinder) | 0-553-08162-4 / NP8162 | $0.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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. |
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The Supernatural in Fiction | 1973-00-00 | ed. Leo P. Kelley | McGraw-Hill (Patterns in Literary Art) | 0-07-033497-8 | $3.96?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
[iv]+ 313 |
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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1974-00-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | N8162 | $0.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1976-09-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 0-553-10249-4 | $1.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xiii+ 258 |
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. |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | 1977-08-00 | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 0-553-10249-4 | $1.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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. |
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013 | 2013-00-00 | ed. Editors of McSweeney's | McSweeney's Books | 978-1-938073-63-2 | 200 | 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. |
mag | |||
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | date unknown | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Pathfinder) | SP5372 | $0.75?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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 | ![]() |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | date unknown | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Pathfinder) | 0-553-08162-4 / NP8162 | $0.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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 | ![]() |
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow | date unknown | ed. Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books (Bantam Pathfinder) | SP5372 | $0.75?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
258 | 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. |
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Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction