Letter (Astounding, April 1939): You Know, It'd Be Some Book. Smith's Novels Total Something like 500,000 Words and Mine Something like 750,000. "Gone with the Wind" Was About 200,000!

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Title: Letter (Astounding, April 1939): You Know, It'd Be Some Book. Smith's Novels Total Something like 500,000 Words and Mine Something like 750,000. "Gone with the Wind" Was About 200,000!
Author: Charles W. Jarvis
Year: 1939
Type: Essays

Editions/Publications:

Unknown. Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1939 (Unknown, Charles W. Jarvis, Street & Smith Publications, Inc., $0.20, 164 pages, pulp, MAGAZINE)

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