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Editor:	Alfred Hitchcock
Title:	Stories Not For The Nervous: Part One
Publisher:	Pan
Country:	UK
Date:	1968
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction
Cat#:	02195
Total Editions:	3
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ppint. 21st Apr 2022		title should^W still^W has now been corrected to ''stories not for the nervous: part one'' as otherwise bookcat will^W sorted this half as being identical with the complete anthology.



ppint. 23rd May 2019		''stories not for the nervous: part one'' (sometimes '' ~ : book one'' on front cover) title should be emended to ''stories not for the nervous: part one'' else bookcat will sort this half as being identical with the complete anthology first half reprint anthology derived from the 1965 full h/cvr anthology, first thus ghost-edited by robert arthur cover art by glenn steward (signed; alfred hitchcock full of arrows, being hanged, on a white ground) cover price 5/- 192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising eleven short stories and two novelettes from the twenty-one ss, two nttes and one novella/short novel of the original hardcover anthology, ''alfred hitchcock presents stories not for the nervous'' (1965), ''alfred hitchcock presents'' series #6: #1: ''alfred hitchcock presents stories they wouldn't let me do on tv'' (1957), q.v. for series listing, and links. pan books later renamed the two p/b halves from parts one & two, book one & book two on their covers though on the title pages they remained entitled, respectively, part one and part two



ppint. 28th Apr 2022		all outstanding unplaced original publications and dates placed, save perhaps that/those of ''the other hangman'' by ''carter dickson'' (pseudonym of john dickson carr) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Apr 2022		contents: same as pan books 1974 p/b printing, q.v., possibly in a different order, though yr hmbl srppnt. cannot think of a good reason pan macmillan'd've spent £££ in 1974 on re-setting the text without need. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Apr 2022		pan macmillan pan books imprint first p/b printing, first uk p/b edition reprint anthology of eleven short stories and a novelette; together with part two, ukp/bs the full contents of the original h/cvr edition (random house usa 1965; max reinhardt uk 1966) cover art cover price 5/- 192pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Apr 2022		contents: a brief message from our sponsors (nf introduction as by alfred hitchcock, likely by the ghost editor) to the future (short story) ray bradbury (colliers 13/5/1950; argosy uk 9/1950 as ''the fox and the forest'') river of riches (ss) gerald kersh (saturday evening post 8/3/1958; reprinted argosy uk 8/1958) levitation (ss) joseph payne brennan (in ''nine horrors and a dream'' joseph p. brennan (1958), q.v.) miss winters and the wind (ss) christine noble govan (tomorrow 5/1946) view from the terrace (ss) mike marmer (cosmopolitan 12/1960) the man with copper fingers (ss) dorothy l. sayers (as ''the abominable history of the man with copper fingers'' in ''lord peter views the body'' dorothy l. sayers (1928), q.v.) the twenty friends of william shaw (ss) raymond e. banks (mike shane mystery magazine 3/1960) the other hangman (ss) carter dickson (pseudonym of john dickson carr) (in ''a century of detective stories'' ed: apparently not known (hutchinson 1935), q.v.) don't look behind you (ss) fredric brown (ellery queen's mystery magazine 5/1947 (as ''frederic brown'') no bath for the browns (ss) margot bennett (lilliput 11/1945, as by ''margot bennett'') the uninvited (ss) michael gilbert (michael francis gilbert) (argosy vol.351 #6, 12/1960), argosy uk xxiii #3, 3/1962 as ''a prince of abyssinia'') dune roller (novelette) j. c. may (pseudonym of ''julian may'' (astounding science fiction vol.xxxxviii #4, 12/1951, with four b+w interior illustrations also by j. c. may) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 27th Apr 2022		pan macmillan pan books imprint third printing pan books 1974 printings rename parts one & two, books one & two on the covers, but they remain parts one & two on their title pages. reprint anthology, half of ''alfred hitchcock presents: stories not for the nervous'' (h/cvr 1965) with part one (book one) uk p/bs the h/cvr anthology (random house usa 1965, max reinhardt uk 1966) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Alfred Hitchcock - Stories Not For The Nervous: Book One - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330021958 (1974)

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Alfred Hitchcock - Stories Not For The Nervous: Part One - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330021958 (1968)