Title: Letter from the Stars
Title Record # 70704
Author: A. E. van Vogt
Date: 1950-07-00
Variant Title of: Dear Pen Pal (1949) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Current Tags: science fiction (1), body swap (1), first contact (1)
Author: A. E. van Vogt
Date: 1950-07-00
Variant Title of: Dear Pen Pal (1949) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
User Rating: This title has no votes. VOTE
Current Tags: science fiction (1), body swap (1), first contact (1)
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Out of this World Adventures, July 1950 | 1950-07-00 | ed. Donald A. Wollheim | Avon Periodicals | $0.25?$: US dollar |
132 | 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 | |||
Beyond the End of Time | 1952-01-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Permabooks | P145 | $0.35?$: US dollar |
407 | 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 | ||
Nebula Science Fiction, Number 1 | 1952-10-00 | ed. Peter Hamilton, Jr. | Crownpoint Publications Ltd. | 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). |
120 | 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 | Alan Hunter | ||
The Earth in Peril / Who Speaks of Conquest? | 1957-02-00 | Donald A. Wollheim, Lan Wright | Ace Books (Ace Double #D-205) | D-205 | $0.35?$: US dollar |
158+ 160 |
dos?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books. |
omni | Ed Emshwiller , Stanley Meltzoff | |
Destination: Universe! | 1964-09-00 | A. E. van Vogt | Berkley Medallion | F893 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | |
Destination: Universe! | 1964-12-00 | A. E. van Vogt | Berkley Medallion | F893 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | |
Out of this World Adventures, July 1950 | 2008-12-04 | ed. Donald A. Wollheim | Altus Press | 978-1-4404-5103-4 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
130 | 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 |
Reviews
- Review by Jimmy Rogers (2013) in StarShipSofa, No 309