Title: The Library Window

Title: The Library Window Title Record # 839829
Author: Margaret Oliphant
Date: 1896-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Year	Title
1902^ⓘFrom "Stories of the Seen and Unseen", Blackwood, 1881	The Library Window [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
1988	The Library Window [as by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant]

Year	Language	Title
1975^ⓘTranslated by Leni Sobez	German	Das Bibliotheksfenster [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
2000^ⓘTranslated by Jacques Finné	French	La fenêtre de la bibliothèque

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Stories of the Seen and the Unseen	1902-00-00	Mrs. Oliphant	William Blackwood & Sons		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).	316	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	1931-07-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Gollancz		8/6^?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).	1147	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Second Omnibus of Crime	1932-00-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Coward-McCann		$2.50^?$: US dollar	855	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	1932-07-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Gollancz		5/-^?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).	1147	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
50 Years of Ghost Stories	1935-00-00	ed. uncredited	Hutchinson		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).	ix+ 702	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Century of Ghost Stories	1936-00-00	ed. uncredited	Hutchinson		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).	1013	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	1937-01-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Gollancz		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).	1147	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	1948-01-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Gollancz		8/6^?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).	1147	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second Series	1949-02-00	ed. Dorothy L. Sayers	Gollancz			1147	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1969-12-00	ed. Robert Aickman	Fontana	2099	4/-^?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
Walk in Dread	1970-00-00	ed. uncredited	Hutchinson	0-09-101810-2		319	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Walk in Dread: Twelve Classic Eerie Tales	1972-10-00	ed. Dorothy Tomlinson	Taplinger	0-8008-8037-4	$6.95^?$: US dollar	287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1975-00-00	ed. Robert Aickman	Fontana	0-00-613700-8		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
13 Geister-Stories	1975-00-00	ed. Dorothy Tomlinson	Heyne (Heyne-Anthologien #46)	3-453-45019-1	DM 6.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	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.	anth
A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories	1981-00-00	ed. Everett F. Bleiler	Charles Scribner's Sons	0-684-17299-2	$17.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 358	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Book of the Dead	1986-07-00	ed. Alan K. Russell	New Orchard	1-85079-035-3	£9.95^?£: UK pound	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Great Ghost Stories in Large Print	1988-05-00	ed. Mary C. Allen	G. K. Hall & Co. (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series)	0-8161-4423-0	$18.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 390	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	David Reau Johnson
Les fantômes des victoriennes	2000-04-00	ed. Jacques Finné^?Jacques Finne	Librairie José Corti (Domaine romantique)	2-7143-0723-X		438	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	Léon Spilliaert^?Leon Spilliaert
The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature	2001-02-00	ed. David Sandner, Jacob Weisman	North Atlantic Books/Tachyon Publications/Frog, Ltd.	1-58394-030-8	$27.50^?$: US dollar	747	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Michael Dashow
Scottish Ghost Stories	2009-02-00	ed. Rosemary Gray	Wordsworth Editions (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)	978-1-84022-168-8	£2.99^?£: UK pound	623	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	William Russell Flint
The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature	2013-08-15	ed. David Sandner, Jacob Weisman	Tachyon Publications	978-1-61696-096-4	$19.95^?$: US dollar	706	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	Thomas Canty

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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)
Review by Brian J. Showers [as by Brian Showers] (2007) in Dead Reckonings, Fall 2007

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