• Publication: Famous Ghost Stories by English AuthorsPublication Record # 414080
• Editor: Adam L. Gowans
• Date: 1919-01-00
• Publisher: Gowans & Gray
• Pub. Series: Gowans's Cosmopolitan Library
• Pub. Series #: 2
• Price:
  2/-^?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: 225
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 3rd printing Date from printing history in the 4th printing
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 705
  • LCCN: 37-32782
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 796379672

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