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Publication: The Deltora Book of Monsters: By Josef, Palace Librarian in the Reign of King Alton

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  • Publication: The Deltora Book of Monsters: By Josef, Palace Librarian in the Reign of King AltonPublication Record # 397115
  • Author: Emily Rodda
  • Date: 2003-00-00
  • ISBN: 1-86504-593-4 [978-1-86504-593-1]
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press / Scholastic Australia
  • Price:
    A$?A$: Australian dollar
  • Pages: [46]
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: The Deltora Book of Monsters (2001) • by Marc McBride
  • Notes:
    • No printed price.
    • Large format - approx. A4 (bit shorter)
    • Pages are unnumbered - manual count done. (48pp if include the title page & copyright page)
    • Contains a collection of fictional "articles" / anecdotes about Deltora monsters, allegedly written by "Josef, Palace Librarian in the reign of King Alton".
    • The only explicit publication date on copyright page is:
        First published by Scholastic Australia in 2001.
      • The number line on the copy used for this data indicates first printing. Interestingly, the year line indicates 2002.
      nevertheless, other evidence indicates this edition was published in 2003 (& 2003 used for this record based on this evidence) ...
    • The National Library of Australia record - [here] for this ISBN has [2003], perhaps indicating that it was 2003, but that the copyright page wasn't updated from the original edition (presumably ISBN = 1865043699). Google Books has March 2003. The OCLC record (link below) has 2003 & "Previously published 2001".
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: The Deltora Book of Monsters • juvenile • [Deltora] • (2001) • collection by Marc McBride and Emily Rodda [as by Emily Rodda]

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