• Publication: Dick Sands: The Boy CaptainPublication Record # 711578
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1878-12-00
• Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
• 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: viii+486
• Format:
  octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: Sources:

  • Title (Dick Sands over The Boy Captain), translator, traslation, illustrated, publisher (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington), date (1879), page counts and contents from a scanned copy at the Bodleian Library.
  • Title (Dick Sands, The Boy Captain), date (December 1878), format (post 8vo), price (10s6d), translator and translation from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Dick Sands: The Boy Captain • [Voyages extraordinaires • 17] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Un capitaine de quinze ans)