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Title: The Chink and the Child Title Record # 989115
Author: Thomas Burke
Date: 1915-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in the magazine Colour, October 1915. This story appears in some lists of genre fiction because Ashley and Contento indexed the entire contents of Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors in The Supernatural Index without indicating which stories in it (such as this one) are not actually speculative.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Limehouse Nights 1916-00-00 Thomas Burke Grant Richards  
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).
311
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Limehouse Nights 1917-08-00 Thomas Burke Robert M. McBride & Company  
$2.00?$: US dollar
311
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Twenty and Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors 1924-00-00 ed. Ernest Rhys, C. A. Dawson Scott Thornton Butterworth  
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).
367
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors 1924-00-00 ed. Ernest Rhys, C. A. Dawson Scott D. Appleton & Company  
$2.50?$: US dollar
350
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Limehouse Nights 1926-00-00 Thomas Burke Robert M. McBride & Company  
$5.00?$: US dollar
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Limehouse Nights 1930-00-00 Thomas Burke Grosset & Dunlap  
$1.00?$: US dollar
311
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Limehouse Nights 1935-00-00 Thomas Burke Robert M. McBride & Company  
$1.00?$: US dollar
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Mystery and Detection, September 1935 1935-09-00 ed. Editors of Mystery and Detection World's Work  
1/-?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).
128
pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
mag  
The Best Stories of Thomas Burke 1950-00-00 Thomas Burke Phoenix House     256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Limehouse Nights 1961-00-00 Thomas Burke Digit Books R486
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).
156
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  
Limehouse Nights 1974-00-00 Thomas Burke Horizon Press 0-8180-0619-6   304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Getting Even: Gripping Tales of Revenge 1978-00-00 ed. Diana King Bobbs-Merrill Company 0-672-52397-3
$8.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
209
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Maury Englander  
Limehouse Nights 2003-00-00 Thomas Burke Wildside Press 0-8095-3094-5
$23.99?$: US dollar
216
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  
Limehouse Nights 2014-07-17 Thomas Burke White Press 978-1-4733-1741-3
$14.45?$: US dollar
228
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  
Limehouse Nights 2015-06-30 Thomas Burke MysteriousPress.com / Open Road 978-1-5040-1723-7
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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