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  • Publication: The Coming RacePublication Record # 579070
  • Author: uncredited
  • Date: 1871-05-15
  • Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
  • Price:
    10/6?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: 292
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
      First edition, published anonymously
    • Publication date and price from publisher advertisement Manchester Guardian 1871-05-15 p1 (quote four lines in full):
      This day is published, THE COMING RACE. In one volume octavo, price 10s. 6d. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.
      Multiple copies of a two-line notice had been published 1871-04-22 p8, "Shortly will appear // THE COMING RACE".
    • Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report five stated "editions" during 1871, 1st to 5th, all as 292 pages. (WorldCat records report 6th ed 1872; 7th, 8th eds 1873 as 280 pages.)
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- dedication "Inscribed to Max Müller ..." (Friedrich Max Müller, 1823–1900) -- text spans p[1]-292; p292 closes (all caps) "Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh."
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OCLC/Worldcat Verified Chris J 2016-07-19 20:53:56
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