• Publication: DormantPublication Record # 88867
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1911-09-00
• Publisher: Methuen
• 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: ii+312
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: 1st ed. OCLC 65740910 (197-? microfilm, Victorian fiction #396:7) Price from publisher advert "Methuen's Popular Novels: Crown 8vo, 6s. each" Manchester Guardian 1911-09-21 p4 Publ date inferred from that item; and advert of the Autumn 1911 list (Aug-Sep-Oct) Man. Gua. -08-10 p4, this one under heading "September and October"; and e-copy inscription HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy -- with original cover, red cloth barely decorated -- gift inscription dated 1911-10-02 -- dedication "to the Lady Dunsany from E. Nesbit" Crowlink, Sussex, 1911 -- Contents, p.ii -- novel spans p1-312 -- bound with 32-page "A Selection of Books Published by Methuen ..." dated August 1911 (more than 1000 listings?) (Fiction p21-29)
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1229
  • LCCN: 11-26645
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 65740910

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• Dormant • (1911) • novel by E. Nesbit