• Publication: The Island of FantasyPublication Record # 718923
• Author: Fergus Hume
• Date: 1914-00-00
• Publisher: Holden & Hardingham
• 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: 191
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • Unabridged? The novel contains about 190,000 words--or about 1000 words per page if this edition is unabridged. H&H abridged The Night Land in 1921 for its uniform ed. of Hodgson stories, an Abridged Edition noted on t.p. verso and reported in some library records. As known library records do not report here.
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports "Series: Holden & Hardingham's sixpenny novels, 7"; size 22 cm. That implies price -/6; trade paperback size.
  • Paper covers, inferred The series name (underscore above) is not found 2019-06-14 in newspapers, nor in other WorldCat records. It is a likely advertisement heading. The column "Books & Bookmen", Manchester Guardian 1914-04-16 p4, observes in a "glance backward over the spring season": "In the case of reprinted novels the striking feature is the accumulating mass of sevenpenny reprints. ... They have pretty well wiped out the sixpenny reprint in paper covers, and, if they continue to increase ..." and may well wipe out "some of the publishers who are putting them so abundantly upon the market." That suggests -/7 hardcovers and -/6 paper covers, as current fashion and established norm in UK reprint series. One 1913 advertisement by H&H implies 7-penny cloth and 6-penny paper issues from its own house. --"Some Fine New Books", The Bookman 1913-09 p279
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001765452
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 612845832

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• The Island of Fantasy • (1892) • novel by Fergus Hume