Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal Tales
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Overview:
- Title: Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal Tales
- Author: Francis Greig
- Year: 1982
- ISBN-10: 0517544903
- Publisher: Crown Publishers
- Price: $11.95
- Pages: x+210
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Heads You Lose and Other Apocryphal Tales
- Notes:
- Data from Internet Archive scan
- "First American edition published 1982 by Crown Publishers, Inc."
- "This book was originally published in Great Britain under the title The Bite and Other Apocryphal Tales"
- First printing per number line
- Introduction is signed "F. G.".
- "Jacket design by Bascove" on rear dust jacket flap
- No cover artist credit
- LCCN per copyright page
- Book consists of retellings of modern folktales, urban legends, etc. It is not clear all contents are speculative fiction (per ISFDB definition). Verifier should check genre of stories.
- Each story is followed, on a separate page, with brief notes on different versions, etc.
- Mentioned in Locus #256 (May 1982)