• Publication: Purple IslandsPublication Record # 323170
• Author: Dee Carter
• Date: 1953-01-00
• Publisher: Curtis Warren
• 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: 159
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: Purple Islands by Gerald Facey
• Notes: Adds: synopsis, printing month. Information on page 77-8, Harbottle/Holland. Tuck III, pg. 663, bot. lt. col., "as Dee Carter", Curtis War., 1953, 159 pages, 1/6. (identical hardcover editions 6/-). OCLC: Record shows "by Dee Carter", but attributes it to "Denis Carter". No mention of hardcover or softcover editions. Pseudonym attribution is totally wrong.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 7526517
  • Reginald-1: 07549

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• Purple Islands • (1953) • novel by Denis Hughes [as by Dee Carter]