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  • Publication: Annihilation!Publication Record # 2786
  • Author: Vargo Statten
  • Date: 1950-05-00
  • Publisher: Scion Ltd.
  • Price:
    1/6?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).
  • Pages: 128
  • Format:
    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".
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: Annihilation! (1950) • by Ron Turner
  • Notes:
    • Publication and copyright dates missing/not printed.
    • 1950 listed by Fantastic Fiction.
    • Cover artist Ron Turner taken from the Ron Turner Cover Collection.
    • A Scion Scientific Novel.
    • Adds: printing month, synopsis. Information on page 41, Harbottle/Holland. "Originally written for the American book market in 1949."
    • Tuck III, pg. 648, mid. lt. col., states as by Vargo Statten, Scion, 1951, 128 pages, 1/6.
    • OCLC records: as "Annihilation! : saga of the future", by Vargo Statten, "Date taken from R. Reginald. Science fiction and fantasy literature : a checklist 1700-1974. Gale Research Co., 1979. Cover title. Publisher's advertisments: p. [4] of cover." OCLC 55635705.
    • OCLC records: "Annihilation", by Vargo Statten, "Subtitle on cover: A saga of the future." OCLC 470585265.
    • OCLC records: "Annihilation,", John Russell Fearn, "by Vargo Statten [pseud.]." OCLC 27138520.
    • All three records for the same book, same printing.
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