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Title: Contraption Title Record # 57010
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1953-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1957 Contraption [as by Clifford Simak]
Year Language Title
1966Translated by Roberta Rambelli
Italian L'aggeggio
1987Translated by З. Бобырь (Зинаида Анатольевна Бобырь) (Zinaida Anatol'yevna Bobyr, 1912-1988)
Russian [as by
Мюррей Лейнстер?Myurrey Leynster
Murray Leinster
]
2012Translated by Pierre-Paul Durastanti
French Le bidule

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-02-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books H 16
$1.50?$: US dollar
[2]+
202+
[3]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-02-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 16
$0.35?$: US dollar
[8]+
202
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-04-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 16
$0.35?$: US dollar
202
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1954-00-00 ed. Frederik Pohl T. V. Boardman  
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).
207
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Wayne Pagram  
Strangers in the Universe 1956-00-00 Clifford D. Simak Simon & Schuster  
$3.50?$: US dollar
371
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Charles Skaggs (artist) Checkmark
Strangers in the Universe 1957-05-00 Clifford D. Simak Simon & Schuster / SFBC  
$1.15?$: US dollar
280
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Charles Skaggs (artist) Checkmark
Argosy (UK), July 1957 1957-07-00 ed. Editors of Argosy (UK) The Amalgamated Press  
2/-?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).
144
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".
mag  
Star Science Fiction Stories 1961-07-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 521K
$0.35?$: US dollar
203
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Stranieri nell'universo 1966-06-30 Clifford D. Simak Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #28)  
Lit 1,700?Lit: Italian lira
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Rocco Borella Checkmark
Stranieri nell'universo 1971-00-00 Clifford D. Simak Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #28)  
Lit 1,700?Lit: Italian lira
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Rocco Borella  
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 1972-11-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 0-345-02717-5
C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar
195
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 John Berkey Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 1972-11-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 0-345-02717-5
$0.95?$: US dollar
196
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 John Berkey Checkmark
The Autumn Land and Other Stories 1990-02-00 Clifford D. Simak Mandarin 0-7493-0185-6
£3.50?£: UK pound
172
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
2006-02-00
Мюррей Лейнстер?Myurrey Leynster
Murray Leinster
() 5-699-15625-9   1024
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Voisins d'ailleurs 2012-07-10 Clifford D. Simak Gallimard (Folio SF #431) 978-2-07-043966-9   400
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 Sam Van Olffen  
No Life of Their Own and Other Stories 2016-03-01 Clifford D. Simak Open Road Integrated Media 978-1-5040-2317-7
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Jason Gabbert  
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