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  • Publication: The Ship That Sailed to MarsPublication Record # 335238
  • Author: William M. Timlin
  • Date: 1923-11-00
  • Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co.
  • Price:
    42/-?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: 96
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Ship That Sailed to Mars (1923) • by William M. Timlin
  • Notes:
    • Limited edition, 2000 copies Size 31 cm --WorldCat record OCLC 5913725 (Price 42 shillings, or 2 guineas, must be that of the limited edition. Some sources may report a simultaneous ordinary edition.)
    • Publication date (inferred) from listings: • in publisher advertisement under heading "Autumn Publications", The Nation & The Athenaeum 34.2 (1923-10-13) p103 • in "Publications Received" Irish Times 1923-11-23 p3, under "Books for Children" October/November notice, or advertisement as published, not found 2018-08-30 in UK newspapers; reviewed in December (see the novel record).
    • Price from that November listing (and some reviews).
    • Cover artist credit on this book from The Whole Science Fiction Data Base 8. Cover has a large snake head, whose tongue easily surrounds the entire ship on which the characters are sailing. Title page says "Told and Pictured by William M. Timlin".
    • Illustrated with 48 mounted color plates; plus 48 text plates printed in colors, all mounted on heavy gray paper. Horne, "Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators", claims that "the illustrations in this book put him in the top ten of fantasy illustrators with Rackham, Dulac, Goble and Nielsen".
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