• Publication: Four-and-Twenty BlackbirdsPublication Record # 700012
• Author: Edward Thomas
• Date: 1915-00-00
• Publisher: Duckworth & Co.
• Price:
  2/6^?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: vii+111
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Data from WorldCat. Contents from a later edition which states that the stories had been re-ordered from the first edition (original order unknown). Price from contemporary review which also indicates a "coloured frontispiece." (illustration details from used book listings)
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1296635 776570400

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• Better Late Than Never • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Look Before You Leap • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
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• You Can't Make a Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• First Come First Served • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Birds of a Feather Flock Together • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• The Nearer the Bone the Sweeter the Meat • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Enough Is As Good As a Feast • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• It's an Ill Wind That Blows Nobody Any Good • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• There's Many a Slip 'Twixt Cup and Lip • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Time and Tide Wait for No Man • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• He Who Laughs Last Lasts Longest • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• A Cat May Look at a King • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Everything Comes to Him Who Waits • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Never Say Die • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• East, West, Home's Best • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas
• Many a Little Makes a Mickle • juvenile • short story by Edward Thomas