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Title: Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus Title Record # 57228
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1956-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Estimated word count between 8000 and 9000 words, which puts it in the Novelette category, although Contento lists it as a short story (http://contento.best.vwh.net/s194.htm#A3616.63).
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1964 German untitled [as by uncredited]
1965Translated by Ugo Malaguti
Italian Buon compleanno caro Gesù
1967Translated by Wulf H. Bergner
German Ende der Hochsaison
1979Translated by Delio Zinoni
Italian Buon Compleanno, Caro Gesu'
1982Translated by Wulf H. Bergner
German Happy Birthday, lieber Jesus

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Alternating Currents 1956-02-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 130
$0.35?$: US dollar
154
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Alternating Currents 1956-02-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books H-130
$2.00?$: US dollar
154
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Richard Powers  
Tyrannei der Uhren ...und andere Utopia-Kurzgeschichten 1964-12-29 ed. uncredited Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman #415) UZ415
DM 0.70?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
63
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".
anth R. S. Lonati Checkmark
Galassia #53 1965-05-01 ed. Roberta Rambelli Casa Editrice La Tribuna 53
Lit 300?Lit: Italian lira
224
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 Rocco Borella Checkmark
Die Nacht der zehn Milliarden Lichter 1967-11-00 ed.
Arnulf D. Krauß?Arnulf D. Krauss
, Helmuth W. Mommers
Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3106) 3106
DM 2.40?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
159
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 Johnny Bruck Checkmark
Alternating Currents 1969-07-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 01663
$0.75?$: US dollar
154
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
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1975-03-00 Frederik Pohl Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 6486
$2.49?$: US dollar
306
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll John Berkey Checkmark
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1975-06-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books (Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction) 0-345-24507-5
$1.95?$: US dollar
xvi+
363
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1975-06-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 0-345-24507-5
C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar
xvi+
363
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1976-04-00 Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books (Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction) 0-345-24507-5
$1.95?$: US dollar
xvi+
363
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 Dean Ellis Checkmark
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1976-12-00 Frederik Pohl Orbit / Futura 0-86007-916-3
£0.90?£: UK pound
xvi+
363
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 Tony Roberts (artist) Checkmark
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1977-00-00 Frederik Pohl Taplinger 0-8008-0724-3
$9.95?$: US dollar
306
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Rus Anderson  
The Best of Frederik Pohl 1977-01-00 Frederik Pohl Sidgwick & Jackson 0-283-98341-8
£4.95?£: UK pound
xvi+
363
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll David Hardy Checkmark
To Follow a Star: Nine Science Fiction Stories About Christmas 1977-10-00 ed. Terry Carr Thomas Nelson 0-8407-6573-8
$6.95?$: US dollar
152
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Robert Chronister Checkmark
Science Fiction of the Fifties 1979-09-00 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander Avon 0-380-46409-8
$4.95?$: US dollar
xxiii+
438
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.
anth Stanislaw Fernandes Checkmark
Urania #802 1979-09-23 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 802
Lit 900?Lit: Italian lira
196
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 Karel Thole  
Science Fiction of the Fifties 1980-02-00 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander Avon / SFBC 3671
$3.98?$: US dollar
xxii+
393
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Gary Viskupic Checkmark
Die Fünfziger Jahre II 1982-04-00 ed. Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs Hohenheim (Edition SF im Hohenheim Verlag) 3-8147-0019-8
DM 28.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
374+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Oliviero Berni Checkmark
Die Fünfziger Jahre II 1985-00-00 ed. Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special
#24074)
3-404-24074-X
DM 8.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
342
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 Frank Kelly Freas Checkmark
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990-12-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg Avon 0-380-76203-X
$3.50?$: US dollar
viii+
243
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 James Warhola Checkmark
A Cosmic Christmas 2 You 2013-11-00 ed. Hank Davis Baen Books 978-1-4516-3942-1
$14.00?$: US dollar
278
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.
anth Sam Kennedy Checkmark
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