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Publication: Five Children and It

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  • Publication: Five Children and ItPublication Record # 269500
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Date: 1959-07-00
  • Catalog ID: PS128
  • Publisher: Puffin
  • Price:
    3/6?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: 215
  • Format:
    pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: Five Children and It by H. R. Millar
  • Notes:
    • First Puffin printing
    • Price and catalog number information on this book from The Whole Science Fiction Data Base 7
    • Unknown source for page-count 237, matching verified record of the 1990s movie tie-in edition as 28th printing (see)
    • Page-count 215 from all six WorldCat library records of 1959 to 1973 printings, no exceptions found. (OCLC 24617163 as 1959 gives ISBN, presumably one of the later printings.)
    • Cover illustration is from one of the original b/w drawings by Millar, "The punctured state of it was soon evident" (see cover record).
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