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Title: The Bagman's Story Title Record # 62301
Author: Charles Dickens
Date: 1837-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Chapman & Hall, 1837.
Synopsis: A young man staying at an inn notes the widowed landlady being wooed by a man who is secretly merely after her money, as the unusually ornate high-backed chair in his room reveals to him.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1918 The Bagman's Story [as by C. Dickens]
Year Language Title
1984Translated by Bernd Seligmann.
German Die Geschichte des Handlungsreisenden

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors 1910-09-00 ed. Adam L. Gowans Gowans & Gray (Gowans's New Sixpenny Series #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).
128
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors 1912-06-00 ed. Adam L. Gowans Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library)  
1/-?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).
225
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Ghost Stories 1918-07-00 ed. J. Walker McSpadden Thomas Y. Crowell (The "Mystery" Library)  
$1.25?$: US dollar
x+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors 1919-01-00 ed. Adam L. Gowans Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2)  
2/-?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).
225
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Ghost Stories by English Authors 1920-10-00 ed. Adam L. Gowans Gowans & Gray (Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library #2)     225
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Weird Tales, October 1926 1926-10-00 ed. Farnsworth Wright Popular Fiction Publishing Co.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
148
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
mag C. Barker Petrie, Jr.  
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) 1937-00-00 ed. uncredited Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #315)     viii+
507
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories 1938-02-00 J. Walker McSpadden Blue Ribbon Books  
$0.98?$: US dollar
xii+
305+
x+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Shapes of the Supernatural 1969-00-00 ed. Gogo Lewis, Seon Manley Doubleday 0-385-04116-0
$5.95?$: US dollar
371
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Paul Covington Checkmark
The Supernatural in Fiction 1973-00-00 ed. Leo P. Kelley McGraw-Hill (Patterns in Literary Art) 0-07-033497-8
$3.96?$: US dollar
[iv]+
313
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
The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens 1978-00-00 Charles Dickens John Calder; Riverrun Press 0-7145-3678-4
£4.95?£: UK pound
159
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories 1984-00-00 Charles Dickens Alan Sutton (Pocket Classics) 0-86299-152-8
£1.95?£: UK pound
x+
138
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  
Nachtspuk 1984-00-00 ed.
Michael Görden?Michael Goerden
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(Phantastische Literatur #72501)
3-404-72501-8 / 3-404-72501-0
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
221
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 Checkmark
The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories 1988-02-00 Charles Dickens Academy Chicago 0-89733-307-1
$3.95?$: US dollar
138
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  
The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories 1996-02-00 Charles Dickens Alan Sutton (Pocket Classics) 0-86299-858-1
£5.99?£: UK pound
256
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.
coll  
My Favorite Fantasy Story 2000-08-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1161) 0-88677-905-7
$6.99?$: US dollar
viii+
423
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 Les Edwards Checkmark
Classic Tales of the Supernatural 2001-00-00 ed. Robin Brockman Arcturus Publishing 1-84193-013-X   519
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 Paul Ashby Checkmark
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural 2002-00-00 ed. Robin Brockman Gramercy Books 0-517-22095-4
$14.95?$: US dollar
519
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Paul Ashby  
My Favorite Fantasy Story 2004-07-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg ibooks 0-7434-8744-3
$11.95?$: US dollar
viii+
423
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 Les Edwards  
Famous Ghost Stories 2004-08-30 ed. J. Walker McSpadden Fredonia Books 1-4101-0687-X
$15.99?$: US dollar
316
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  
Dust 'n' Bones 2007-09-28 ed. Chris Mould Hodder Children's Books 978-0-340-89326-5   96
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Dust 'n' Bones 2007-10-18 ed. Chris Mould Hodder Children's Books 978-0-340-89327-2
£8.99?£: UK pound
96
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Dust 'n' Bones 2008-10-16 ed. Chris Mould Hodder Children's Books 978-0-340-95070-8
£5.99?£: UK pound
144
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  
The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens 2010-04-01 Charles Dickens Oneworld Classics 978-0-7145-4333-8
$15.99?$: US dollar
160
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.
coll  
Weird Tales 2019-00-00 ed. uncredited Pulp Classics on DVD      
other?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.
anth Margaret Brundage Checkmark
Weird Tales, October 1926 date unknown ed. Farnsworth Wright Girasol Collectables  
$35.00?$: US dollar
144
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 C. Barker Petrie, Jr. Checkmark
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