• Publication: The Extra DayPublication Record # 352289
• Author: Algernon Blackwood
• Date: 1915-10-05
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• 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+358
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • UK edition, 1st printing. This may be the earliest released edition (see the novel record).
  • Publication date and price from newspaper advertisements 1915-10-02/04 (Saturday to Monday), which note "[Tuesday.]"; and "Macmillan's List", Manchester Guardian 1915-10-05 p7 (Tuesday), without such annotation.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of one copy with original cover (two scans from U California, mis-catalogued as copies of the US ed.): -- dedication(?) leaf, p[v-vi] (no analogue in the US ed.) -- Contents, p.vii-x (detail not in the US ed.) -- text spans p1-358; p358 footer, "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh." -- "New & Recent Works of Fiction" from the publisher, back pages p1-[8] (specific to Macmillan UK)
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000367656
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 186
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 752626877
  • Reginald-1: 01384

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• The Extra Day • (1915) • novel by Algernon Blackwood