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Publication: The Lair of the White Worm

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  • Publication: The Lair of the White WormPublication Record # 291496
  • Author: Bram Stoker
  • Date: 1911-00-00
  • Publisher: William Rider & Son
  • 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: viii+324
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes: Price from Tuck Colour frontispiece and plates HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies without original cover: -- title page: no date or illustrator credit -- t.p. verso states 1911 copyrights by Stoker, both Great Britain, etc, and United States (library acquisition stamp illegible) -- Contents, p.vii-viii, lists 40 chapters and 6 illustrations Illustrations are listed as 6 plates not included in the pagination, but the last one, as "facing page 294", is actually reproduced and bound only as the frontispiece, with guard sheet. The illustrations are not credited in the book, nor in the library records linked below. They are signed by Smith, "PCS" so stylized that it is not legible, but scrutable with knowledge that she is the artist --from her Wikipedia biography, for instance.
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Secondary Verifications

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Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:17:51
Bleiler Supernatural Verified Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:17:51
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Clute/Grant Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Currey N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Reginald1 Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 14:44:20
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