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Publication: The Challenge of the Sea

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  • Publication: The Challenge of the SeaPublication Record # 208581
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Date: 1961-00-00
  • Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd
  • 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: 160
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: The Challenge of the Sea (1960) • by Patricia Cullen
  • Notes: • First published in Great Britain in 1961 by Frederick Muller Limited. • Copyrighted by Arthur Clarke for 1960. • Contents: List of Illustrations, Introduction by Wernher von Braun [pp. 9-10], 12 chapters and Acknowledgement. • Seven black-and-white illustrations, photographs and drawings, none credited but "Alex Schomburg" is visible on the last two. • "Illustrated in colour and black and white" on the back cover, but the only thing in colour is the front and the spine of the dustjacket (not credited, "Cullen" in the lower right).
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Nonfiction Title: The Challenge of the Sea • (1960) • nonfiction by Arthur C. Clarke

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