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  • Publication: A Diversity of CreaturesPublication Record # 316033
  • Author: Rudyard Kipling
  • Date: 1917-04-17
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price:
    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+442
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Notes:
      1st ed.
    • Speculative fiction content only (see Container Title)
    • Last page unnumbered
    • Publ date and price (this among 5 eds./formats) from publisher advert The Observer 1917-04-15 p4 (Sunday); flushright "[Tuesday." interpreted as publication date. Following UNIFORM EDITION, and POCKET EDITION in two formats (back pages of the copy online at HDL, far below), the publisher advertisement lists also BOMBAY EDITION as 21/- and EDITION DE LUXE, 2 vols. at 10/- (or 21/- for the collection).
    • Some of the numerous WorldCat library records that report Macmillan, 1917 report a Dominions Edition; for instance OCLC 988649411, 1005117148 --both as page-count viii 441, size 20 cm.
    • LC and WorldCat library records linked here (LCCN, OCLC) report the uniform ed. (presumably, in default) and pocket ed. only --as size 21 cm and 18 cm.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies, one with original cover (from Duke U), interiors evidently identical except the first printed leaf -- front cover (not jacket) and first leaf of the Duke book fit both the image displayed here (with jacket) and the uniform edition -- Preface, p[v] (differs from US ed.; see Container Title) -- Contents, p.vii-viii, lists 14 stories and 14 poems, alternating except once -- text spans p1-[442]; p[442] footer is horizontal line over "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh." -- back pages comprise 4-page promotion Kipling books from Macmillan and Co., numbered 1-4 "The Works of Rudyard Kipling", back pages 1-2, header p1 identifies this and also two pocket eds./formats thus (6 lines, quote):   UNIFORM EDITION.   Extra Crown 8vo. Red cloth, gilt tops. 6s. each.   POCKET EDITION.   Printed on Thin Paper. With Gilt Edges. Fcap. 8vo.   In Scarlet Limp Leather. 5s. net each.   In Blue Cloth. 4s. 6d. net each.
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Collection Title: A Diversity of Creatures • (1917) • collection by Rudyard Kipling

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