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Publication: The Mystery

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  • Publication: The MysteryPublication Record # 711397
  • Authors: Samuel Hopkins Adams, Stewart Edward White
  • Date: 1907-04-00
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • 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).
  • Pages: 320
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Mystery (1907) • by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed.
    • Publication date (inferred) and price from advertisements The Spectator 1907-04-06 p551 and Manchester Guardian -04-09 p5, without indication that it is forthcoming, and lack of earlier notices except Spring Announcements.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with the original cover (front and back, no spine): -- front cover Illustration and design match the US ed., with border grey rather than red--evidently (see back covers) as matching paper pasted on a cloth cover that is grey where the US cloth is red. Cover illustration is signed in faint block capitals, "Dan Sayre Groesbeck". -- title page, p[1], notes "With Eight Illustrations" There is no list of illustrations but comparison with the US ed. (Harvard U copy viewed at HathiTrust) shows that these 8 (frontispiece plus 7 plates not included in the pagination) are half of the 16 plates in the US ed., where they credited on the title page. -- novel spans p9-320 -- no back pages
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