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Title: Mission of Gravity (Part 1 of 4)

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Title: Mission of Gravity (Part 1 of 4) Title Record # 113017
Author: Hal Clement
Date: 1953-04-00
Variant Title of: Mission of Gravity (1954) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SERIAL
Series: Mesklin
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding Science Fiction, April 1953 1953-04-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
172
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".
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Astounding Science Fiction, September 1953 (UK) 1953-09-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
-/9?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).
68
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
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