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Title: Our Distant Cousins Title Record # 97476
Author: Lord Dunsany
Date: 1929-11-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Jorkens
Webpages: michaelbroschat.com
Language: English
Note: First published in the Saturday Evening Post, 23 November 1929. Data from Joshi & Schweitzer, Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993).
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Translations
Year Language Title
1958Translated by an unknown hand.
Spanish Nuestros primos lejanos
1985Translated by Jean-Paul Gratias
French Nos cousins éloignés

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Saturday Evening Post, November 23, 1929 1929-11-23 ed. Editors of The Saturday Evening Post    
$0.05?$: US dollar
152
tabloid?11" by 16" magazine, usually newsprint, e.g. British Science Fiction Monthly.
mag  
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens 1931-04-00 Lord Dunsany G. P. Putnam's Sons  
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).
vii+
304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens 1931-09-00 Lord Dunsany G. P. Putnam's Sons  
$2.00?$: US dollar
vii+
304
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Third Omnibus of Crime 1935-00-00 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers Coward-McCann  
$2.50?$: US dollar
808
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1943-05-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Doubleday, Doran  
$3.00?$: US dollar
xx+
487
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1943-05-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern McClelland  
C$3.25?C$: Canadian dollar
xx+
487
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1945-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Garden City Publishing Co.     xx+
488
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Moonlight Traveller 1949-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern The Bodley Head  
12/6?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).
477
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveller 1952-00-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern The Bodley Head  
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).
477
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1954-09-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Cardinal / Pocket Books C-156
$0.35?$: US dollar
xx+
485
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
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1954-09-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Cardinal / Pocket Books C-156
C$0.35?C$: Canadian dollar
xx+
485
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  
Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror 1958-00-00 ed. Juan José López Ibor Editorial Labor (Grandes Antologías Labor)     xxxi+
1319+
[5]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Armchair Science Reader 1959-00-00 ed. Isabel S. Gordon, Sophie Sorkin Simon & Schuster  
$7.95?$: US dollar
xxi+
832
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Moonlight Traveller 1960-11-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern World / WDL Books HH981
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).
224
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  
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination 1965-07-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Washington Square Press W-704
$0.60?$: US dollar
xx+
485
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 Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1966-00-00 ed. Robert Aickman Fontana 1227
3/6?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).
252
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  
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1971-09-00 ed. Robert Aickman Beagle Books 95138
$0.95?$: US dollar
252
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  
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1974-00-00 ed. Robert Aickman Fontana 0-00-613248-0   252
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  
Encore un whiskey, monsieur Jorkens ? 1985-00-00 Lord Dunsany Néo (Fantastique / Science-fiction / Aventures #134)     iv+
218
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 Jean-Michel Nicollet Checkmark
The Collected Jorkens: Volume 1 2004-02-00 Lord Dunsany Night Shade Books 1-892389-55-X
$35.00?$: US dollar
xxiv+
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Sydney Sime Checkmark
In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales 2004-02-00 Lord Dunsany Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 0-14-243776-X
$14.00?$: US dollar
xix+
400
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 Sidney H. Sime Checkmark
Les fabuleux voyages de Mr Jorkens 2004-04-22 Lord Dunsany Terre de Brume (Terres Mystérieuses) 2-84362-233-6
€18.50?€: Euro
252
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 Maxfield Parrish  
In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales date unknown Lord Dunsany Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) 978-0-14-243776-6
$16.00?$: US dollar
xxvii+
400
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 Sidney H. Sime Checkmark
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