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Title: Our Distant Cousins

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Title: Our Distant Cousins Title Record # 97476
Author: Lord Dunsany
Date: 1929-11-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Jorkens
Webpages: michaelbroschat.com
Language: English
Note: First published in the Saturday Evening Post, 23 November 1929. Data from Joshi & Schweitzer, Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993).
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Translations
Year Language Title
1958Translated by an unknown hand.
Spanish Nuestros primos lejanos
1985Translated by Jean-Paul Gratias
French Nos cousins éloignés

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Saturday Evening Post, November 23, 1929 1929-11-23 ed. Editors of The Saturday Evening Post    
$0.05?$: US dollar
152
tabloid?11" by 16" magazine, usually newsprint, e.g. British Science Fiction Monthly.
mag  
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens 1931-04-00 Lord Dunsany G. P. Putnam's Sons  
7/6?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).
vii+
304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens 1931-09-00 Lord Dunsany G. P. Putnam's Sons  
$2.00?$: US dollar
vii+
304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Third Omnibus of Crime 1935-00-00 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers Coward-McCann  
$2.50?$: US dollar
808
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1943-05-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Doubleday, Doran  
$3.00?$: US dollar
xx+
487
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1943-05-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern McClelland  
C$3.25?C$: Canadian dollar
xx+
487
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1945-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Garden City Publishing Co.     xx+
488
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Moonlight Traveller 1949-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern The Bodley Head  
12/6?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).
477
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveller 1952-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern The Bodley Head  
7/6?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).
477
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1954-09-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Cardinal / Pocket Books C-156
$0.35?$: US dollar
xx+
485
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 Checkmark
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1954-09-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Cardinal / Pocket Books C-156
C$0.35?C$: Canadian dollar
xx+
485
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  
Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror 1958-00-00 ed. Juan José López Ibor Editorial Labor (Grandes Antologías Labor)     xxxi+
1319+
[5]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Armchair Science Reader 1959-00-00 ed. Isabel S. Gordon, Sophie Sorkin Simon & Schuster  
$7.95?$: US dollar
xxi+
832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveller 1960-11-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern World / WDL Books HH981
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).
224
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  
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1965-07-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Washington Square Press W-704
$0.60?$: US dollar
xx+
485
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 Checkmark
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1966-00-00 ed. Robert Aickman Fontana 1227
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).
252
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  
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1971-09-00 ed. Robert Aickman Beagle Books 95138
$0.95?$: US dollar
252
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  
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1974-00-00 ed. Robert Aickman Fontana 0-00-613248-0   252
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  
Encore un whiskey, monsieur Jorkens ? 1985-00-00 Lord Dunsany Néo (Fantastique / Science-fiction / Aventures #134)     iv+
218
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 Jean-Michel Nicollet Checkmark
In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales 2004-02-00 Lord Dunsany Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 0-14-243776-X
$14.00?$: US dollar
xix+
400
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 Sidney H. Sime Checkmark
The Collected Jorkens: Volume 1 2004-02-00 Lord Dunsany Night Shade Books 1-892389-55-X
$35.00?$: US dollar
xxiv+
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Sydney Sime Checkmark
Les fabuleux voyages de Mr Jorkens 2004-04-22 Lord Dunsany Terre de Brume (Terres Mystérieuses) 2-84362-233-6
€18.50?€: Euro
252
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 Maxfield Parrish  
In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales 2019-03-26 Lord Dunsany Tantor Audio 978-1-9773-4686-5    
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
coll Checkmark
In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales date unknown Lord Dunsany Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-243776-6
$16.00?$: US dollar
xxvii+
400
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 Sidney H. Sime Checkmark
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