• Publication: The Lord of the Rushie RiverPublication Record # 415981
• Author: Cicely Mary Barker
• Date: 1938-00-00
• Publisher: Blackie & Son
• Price:
  2/-^?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: 48
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: The Lord of the Rushie River by Cicely Mary Barker
• Notes:

  • Data from WorldCat and Wikipedia. Original price from an Abebook's seller.
  • Small format, 5.5" x 4.25"
  • Possible 1939 reprint implied by Wikipedia. Several other reprint years implied by Abebook and Amazon sellers. A copy listed with a Christmas 1950 inscription has a price of 2/6. This seems to be an edition listed on Amazon with a list of Barker's other books, which ends with "Flower Fairies of the Wayside", published in 1948. Amazon also lists a 1960 edition, and AbeBooks a 1976 edition, plus editions in the 80's.
  • 12 color plates, plus additional b&w illustrations.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 556809625 315886814

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Lord of the Rushie River • [Rushiebanks • 1] • short fiction by Cicely Mary Barker
•  The Lord of the Rushie River • interior artwork by Cicely Mary Barker