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Title: The Ultimate Wish Title Record # 57122
Author: E. Mayne Hull
Date: 1943-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1943 The Ultimate Wish [as by E. M. Hull]
Year Language Title
1976Translated by René Stolzenbach
Dutch De volmaakte wens [as by E. Mayne Hull and A. E. van Vogt]
1989Translated by Marcel Bieger
German Der ideale Wunsch [as by A. E. van Vogt (in error)]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Unknown Worlds, February 1943 1943-02-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
132
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag Checkmark
Unknown Worlds [UK], Autumn 1945 1945-00-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
0/9?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).
64
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  
Out of the Unknown 1948-04-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.  
$2.50?$: US dollar
141
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Roy Hunt Checkmark
Out of the Unknown 1949-00-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.  
$2.50?$: US dollar
141
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Roy Hunt Checkmark
Out of the Unknown 1952-00-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.  
$2.50?$: US dollar
141
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Roy Hunt  
Out of the Unknown 1969-00-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Powell PP 128
$0.95?$: US dollar
222
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 Albert Nuetzell Checkmark
The Sea Thing and Other Stories 1970-06-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Sidgwick & Jackson 0-283-98095-8
27/-?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).
222
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Out of the Unknown 1970-10-00 E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt New English Library 0-450-00615-8
£0.25?£: UK pound
126
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 Clifton-Dey Checkmark
De volmaakte wens 1976-00-00 A. E. van Vogt Bruna (Bruna SF #54) 90-229-9054-0   192
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 Victor Linford Checkmark
Vorstoss ins Unbekannte 1989-12-00 A. E. van Vogt
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Abenteuer?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Abenteuer
#23097)
3-404-23097-3
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
205
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 David B. Mattingly Checkmark
Out of the Unknown date unknown E. Mayne Hull, A. E. van Vogt Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.  
$3.00?$: US dollar
141
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Roy Hunt  
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