• Publication: The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and TobyPublication Record # 695658
• Author: Palmer Brown
• Date: 1957-00-00
• Publisher: Methuen
• 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: 133
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st UK ed.
  • Price from listing (earliest found) in "New Twists for Under 8" by Eileen Fraser, New Statesman 54.1392 (1957-11-16) p662. The review of this one is a single sentence: "[Illustrations] in The Silver Nutmeg are much more distinguished in a cobwebby way, and the story itself is a pleasantly placid mixture of gentle magic, nonsense songs, and kitchen doings."
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000495199

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• The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby • juvenile • [Anna Lavinia • 2] • (1956) • novel by Palmer Brown