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Publication: A Tarpaulin Muster

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  • Publication: A Tarpaulin MusterPublication Record # 259794
  • Author: John Masefield
  • Date: 1907-04-00
  • Publisher: E. Grant Richards
  • Price:
    3/6?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: 227
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: A Tarpaulin Muster by Mr. Symington
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • "First Edition   April 1907"
    • --stated t.p. verso in 1913-08 2nd ed. (viewed at HathiTrust)
    • Price 3s. 6d. listing in publisher advert Manchester Guardian 1907-05-02 p5, heading "E. Grant Richards // Some Spring Books".
    • Price 6s. stated at foot of review column "Recent Fiction" Irish Times -05-10 p7 (positive, noting in particular the story "Some Irish Fairies").
    • WorldCat library record OCLC 4620826 provides list of Contents (24 story titles) and reports: -- "First edition, one of 1500 copies. Cf. Handley-Taylor, p. 28." -- "Reprinted in part from various periodicals."
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full of one copy from Harvard U, with tipped in portrait and inscription both from Masefield apparently, and with original cover.
    • HDL provides full view of two other copies also with original cover (catalog record). -- title page shows (quote three lines) "London // E. Grant Richards // 1907" -- t.p. verso attributes "cover design" to Symington, evidently meaning one illustration of "The Inchcape Rock", OCLC 503970329 -- Contents (I to XXIV) -- p[9], Note -- collection spans p[11]-[228]; p[228] closes, "Plymouth // William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers" -- back pages [1]-[20], "A Catalogue // of Books Published by // E. Grant Richards // 7 Carlton Street, London // Together with a List // of Announcements, 1907" (double slash represents line break)
    • Cover image from Amazon.com 2018-04-28 as "A Tarpaulin Muster (Short Story Index Reprint Series)", "Hardcover – June 1, 1907", "Ayer Co Pub (June 1, 1907)", ISBN 0836936779.
    • Amazon blurb states that the book is "reproduced from the original artifact"; that in the image appears to be an old book and its cover matches that of the 1907 ed. viewed at HDL.
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Collection Title: A Tarpaulin Muster • collection by John Masefield

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