• Publication: The Valley of FearPublication Record # 706630
• Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Date: 1915-01-00
• Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Price:
  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).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. as a book
  • Price from listing in "Smith, Elder & Co.'s New Books", The Spectator 114.4518 (1915-01-30) p176, under heading "New 6s. Fiction". Publication date inferred from that item as the earliest relevant notice of the book found in search of 1915 newspapers and magazines.

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• The Valley of Fear • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes • 7] • novel by Arthur Conan Doyle