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  • Publication: The Pack of PiecesPublication Record # 583983
  • Author: Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)
  • Date: 1942-00-00
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph
  • Price:
    7/6?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: 180
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: The Pack of Pieces by John R. Parsons
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Incomplete contents (see Container Title)
    • Some WorldCat library records show heading/title (punctuation varies) "The Pack of Pieces. [A fairy tale for adults.]." (eg, OCLC 556828313).
    • Price from publisher advertisements (and earliest newspaper coverage found 2018-03-04) in British weekly The Observer: • -12-06 p3, A Pack of Pieces, 'his witty "fairy stories for adults" ' • -12-13 p3, The Pack of Pieces, among "Books for Christmas" Reported as received during the week in Irish Times (Dublin) -12-21 p2
    • Cover artist from SFE3
    • Illustrator from review The Observer 1942-12-19 p2 (brief, positive concerning tales and illustrations)
    • One dealer at ABEbooks.com notes in part: -- "Witty "fairytales" with delightful line illustrations in black and white by John R Parsons." -- "War-time economy paper throughout." That dealer provides an image of pp. 34-35, which shows tailpiece and headpiece drawings, the latter incorporating one story title (below). Some dealers mention the dust jacket; none provides an image.
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page
Collection Title: The Pack of Pieces • collection by Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)

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