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Title: A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor Title Record # 106499
Author: Ogden Nash
Date: 1955-07-00
Type: POEM
Language: English
Synopsis: A man seeking vengeance on a resident of a rundown Times Square hotel is given by the elevator boy a tour of the thirteenth floor, which only appears on Walpurgis Night and contains assorted murderers eternally bound to the corpses of their victims.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1955 1955-07-00 ed. Anthony Boucher Fantasy House, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
132
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 Nicholas Solovioff Checkmark
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1960-12-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Doubleday  
$4.50?$: US dollar
406
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mel Hunter Checkmark
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1961-03-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Doubleday / SFBC  
$1.20?$: US dollar
406
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mel Hunter Checkmark
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1962-00-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Gollancz  
21/-?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).
402
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1962-01-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Dell X12
$0.75?$: US dollar
416
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1962-01-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Dell X12
C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar
416
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1963-00-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Gollancz  
15/6?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).
402
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1964-00-00 ed. Robert P. Mills Corgi FS7028
5/-?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).
319
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 Fritz Wegner Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1985-05-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday / SFBC 5144
$6.98?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1985-06-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday 0-385-18549-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1990-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Dorset Press 0-88029-518-X
$8.95?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey  
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1991-12-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Macdonald 0-356-20221-6
£14.95?£: UK pound
xiii+
658
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 Ashley Pearce  
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1992-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Warner Books UK 0-7515-0030-5
£8.99?£: UK pound
xiii+
658
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 Ashley Pearce  
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