• Publication: In Brief AuthorityPublication Record # 17944
• Author: F. Anstey
• Date: 1915-10-00
• Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Price:
  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: x+413
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Publication date and price from listing in "Books Published This Week", The Athenaeum 4589 (1915-10-09) p244-47. September publication is possible. Forthcoming publication on the 23rd is noted in the same weekly newspaper, 1915-09-23 p195 "Literary Gossip", and the book is listed without comment (eg, "This week" or "Just ready") in two publisher advertisements, The Spectator 1915-10-02/09.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies with original cover: -- front cover black stamped lettering on blue cloth -- Author's Note dated September 1915 -- text spans p[1]-413 -- p413 footer: "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co." over "Edinburgh & London" -- p[415-20], publisher advertisements, including p[415] "Works by F. Anstey"
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000093100
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 32
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 8982061
  • Reginald-1: 00359

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• In Brief Authority • (1915) • novel by F. Anstey