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Title: It's a Wise Child

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Title: It's a Wise Child Title Record # 1057082
Author: John Wyndham
Date: 1962-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Year Title
1967 Wise Child
Year Language Title
1970Translated by Rita Botter
Italian Il bambino prodigio

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Argosy (UK), November 1962 1962-11-00 ed. Editors of Argosy (UK) Fleetway Publications  
2/6?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).
136
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  
Playboy, May 1967 1967-05-00 ed. Editors of Playboy    
$0.75?$: US dollar
 
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
Playboy's Stories of the Sinister & Strange 1969-00-00 ed. Editors of Playboy Playboy Press BA0124
$0.95?$: US dollar
v+
217
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 Gilbert Stone Checkmark
Progetto Uomo 1970-00-00 ed. Federico Valli De Carlo Editore (Italy)  
Lit 1,500?Lit: Italian lira
232
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 Checkmark
No Place Like Earth 2003-04-00 John Wyndham Darkside Press 0-9707349-9-9
$40.00?$: US dollar
285
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Allen Koszowski  
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