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  • Publication: The War of the WorldsPublication Record # 443838
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Date: 1946-09-21
  • Catalog ID: 570
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Pub. Series: Wells' Eightieth Birthday
  • Price:
    1/-?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: 208
  • Format:
    pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes: "This edition of The War of the Worlds is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Mr Wells' work specially published in commemoration of his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Of each volume one hundred thousand copies have been printed" from preliminary page.
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