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Publication: Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal Tales

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  • Publication: Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal TalesPublication Record # 339162
  • Author: Francis Greig
  • Date: 1982-00-00
  • ISBN: 0-517-54490-3 [978-0-517-54490-7]
  • Publisher: Crown Publishers
  • Price:
    $11.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: x+210
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Webpages: archive.org
  • Notes:
    • Data from Internet Archive scan
    • "First American edition published 1982 by Crown Publishers, Inc."
    • "This book was originally published in Great Britain under the title The Bite and Other Apocryphal Tales"
    • First printing per number line
    • Introduction is signed "F. G.".
    • "Jacket design by Bascove" on rear dust jacket flap
    • No cover artist credit
    • LCCN per copyright page
    • Book consists of retellings of modern folktales, urban legends, etc. It is not clear all contents are speculative fiction (per ISFDB definition). Verifier should check genre of stories.
    • Each story is followed, on a separate page, with brief notes on different versions, etc.
    • Mentioned in Locus #256 (May 1982)
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal Tales • collection by Francis Greig (variant of The Bite and Other Apocryphal Tales 1981)

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OCLC/Worldcat Verified Dirk P Broer 2019-04-04 19:51:56
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