• Publication: The Griffin and the Minor CanonPublication Record # 682774
• Author: Frank R. Stockton
• Date: 1968-00-00
• Publisher: Collins
• Price:
  16/-^?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: 56
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1963) • by Maurice Sendak
• Notes:

  • 1st UK ed.
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports: -- British Library B68-10267 (old format)
  • Price from brief review in "Children's Books" by Naomi Lewis, The Observer 1968-08-04 p22 (extraordinarily positive)
  • Amazon UK/US (ASIN, below) provide no cover image as of 2018-09-14. We presume the original cover illustration by Sendak, and original design (Harper & Row, 1963), are retained here as for the 1967 Collins edition of Stockton and Sendak, The Bee-Man of Orn (Harper & Row, 1964).
• External IDs:
  • ASIN: B0000CO834 AU BR CA CN DE ES FR IN IT JP MX NL TR UAE UK US (US/UK earn commissions)
  • LCCN: 68143567
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 468731

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