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Title: The Holmes-Ginsbook Device Title Record # 58947
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1968-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title
1970 Italian L'apparecchio Holmes-Ginsbook
1984Translated by Joachim Körber; the copyright of the translation is assigned to Hans Joachim Alpers and Harald Pusch
German Die Holmes-Ginsbuch-Erfindung
1992Translated by Mihai-Dan Pavelescu
Romanian Procedeul Holmes-Ginscart

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
If, December 1968 1968-12-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.60?$: US dollar
164
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 Bok Checkmark
Opus 100 1969-06-00 Isaac Asimov Houghton Mifflin  
$5.95?$: US dollar
xv+
318
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Urania #535 1970-03-08 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 535
Lit 250?Lit: Italian lira
166
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  
Opus 100 1970-10-00 Isaac Asimov Dell 6695
$0.95?$: US dollar
285
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
Opus 100 1970-10-00 Isaac Asimov Dell 6695
C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar
285
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
Opus: A Selection from the First 200 Books 1980-00-00 Isaac Asimov Andre Deutsch 0-233-97189-0
£8.95?£: UK pound
669
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Opus 100 1980-12-00 Isaac Asimov Dell 0-440-16695-0
$2.25?$: US dollar
280
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  
Isaac Asimov — der Tausendjahresplaner 1984-00-00 Hans Joachim Alpers, Harald Pusch Corian (Edition Futurum #2) 3-89048-202-3
DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
199
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.
non-fic Bruno Stiegler Checkmark
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology 1986-09-00 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl Bluejay Books 0-312-94471-3
$19.95?$: US dollar
438
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Alan Gutierrez Checkmark
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology 1986-09-00 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Frederik Pohl Bluejay Books 0-312-94472-1
$10.95?$: US dollar
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 Alan Gutierrez Checkmark
Jurnalul SF, #1 1992-00-00 ed.
Adrian Bănuță?Adrian Banuta
Intact  
Lei 45?Lei: Romanian leu
16
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag
Ionuț Bănuță?Ionuts Bahnutsah
,
Adrian Bănuță?Adrian Banuta
 
Opus 100 date unknown Isaac Asimov Houghton Mifflin 0-395-07351-0   xv+
318
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Rick Levy  
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