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Title: A Child's Dream of a Star Title Record # 62307
Author: Charles Dickens
Date: 1850-04-06
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in the magazine Household Words, April 6, 1850.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Household Words, April 6, 1850 1850-04-06 ed. Charles Dickens, Editors of Household Words    
-/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).
24
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1850 1850-06-00 ed. Editors of Harper's Magazine Harper & Brothers      
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
The Lamplighter's Story; Hunted Down; The Detective Police; and Other Nouvellettes 1861-00-00 Charles Dickens T. B. Peterson (Petersons' Uniform Edition of Dickens' Works)     245
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Childhood 1875-00-00 ed. Rossiter Johnson James R. Osgood and Co.     227
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know 1907-08-00 ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie Doubleday, Page & Company     x+
300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know 1913-00-00 ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie Doubleday, Page & Company (Every Child Should Know)     300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Red Magic 1930-00-00 ed. Romer Wilson Jonathan Cape  
7/6?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).
368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Weird Tales, July 1930 1930-07-00 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. C. Senf Checkmark
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know 1937-00-00 ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie Doubleday, Doran (What Every Child Should Know Library)  
$1.08?$: US dollar
300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens 1982-00-00 Charles Dickens Michael Joseph 0-7181-2097-3
£9.95?£: UK pound
xi+
342
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens 1983-00-00 Charles Dickens Franklin Watts 0-531-09885-0
$15.95?$: US dollar
342
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens 1983-11-00 Charles Dickens Washington Square Press 0-671-49752-9
$3.95?$: US dollar
408
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 Checkmark
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  
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  
Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies 1988-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 11698
$7.98?$: US dollar
xxi+
582
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Kriegler Checkmark
Weird Tales 1996-00-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0118-0   xiii+
582
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Kriegler Checkmark
Weird Tales 1996-00-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0294-2   xxi+
582
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 Richard Kriegler Checkmark
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  
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know 2005-07-08 ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie Project Gutenberg 16247
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
A Boxful of Ghosts 2010-10-01 Marcus Clapham, David Stuart Davies, Charles Dickens, M. R. James Collector's Library / CRW Publishing 978-1-907360-20-6
£29.99?£: UK pound
1872
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Weird Tales (disc 2) 2019-00-00 ed. uncredited        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
anth  
Supernatural Short Stories 2020-06-25 Charles Dickens Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy: Classic Tales) 978-1-83964-193-0
$30.00?$: US dollar
480
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
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