- Publication: In Brief AuthorityPublication Record # 17944
- Author: F. Anstey
- Date: 1915-10-00
- Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
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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
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NOVEL
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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:
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- In Brief Authority • (1915) • novel by F. Anstey
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