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Publication: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales

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  • Publication: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known TalesPublication Record # 580902
  • Authors: Nora A. Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Date: 1909-00-00
  • Publisher: Werner Laurie
  • Price:
    10/6?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: xii+339+[11]
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed. Undated, library records imply (BL and OCLC, below).
    • Year and price from brief review in "Christmas Books VII: Illustrated Gift-Books Mostly for Children", Manchester Guardian 1909-12-13 p13 (enthusiastic).
    • Co-author credit as "Nora A. Smith" is from the title page of the October 1909 US ed. (see at ISFDB) with nearly-matching page count xii+339+[12], confirmed (viewed at HathiTrust). The US edition does contain 12 unnumbered interior plates not included in the pagination; no frontispiece. For this edition WorldCat record OCLC 37355841 reports 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, "full-page coloured illustrations by Maxfield Parrish".
    • Contents and page numbers are from that US ed. (viewed at HathiTrust).
  • External IDs:
Collection Title: The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales • juvenile • [أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة / Arabian Nights] • (1909) • collection by Nora Archibald Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin [as by Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin]

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