Publication: The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent

Publication: The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark ContinentPublication Record # 270855
Author: Edward Markwick
Date: 1898-00-00
Publisher: W. Thacker & Co.
Price:
6/3^?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: 324
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NOVEL
Cover: The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent (1896) • by H. Piffard
Notes: Data from Google Books scan. The full text and images of this edition are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library. Concerning the HathiTrust e-copy (that at Google Books not examined): -- title page footer (all caps): London: W. Thacker & Co. 2 Creed Lane, E.C. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. 1898 -- one-page Preface, preliminary, closes: Temple, December 1895 -- Prologue and Chapters 1-34 span pp. 1-324, with p324 footer: Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh. -- pp. [325-28], "Tower Publishing Co.'s Publications" WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports "[8] leaves of plates : illustrations". The book contains a frontispiece and no list of plates or illustrations.
External IDs:
- Bleiler Early Years: 1439
- OCLC/WorldCat: 6340870

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The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent • (1896) • novel by Edward Markwick

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Publication: The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent

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