• Publication: The Ship That FlewPublication Record # 548315
• Author: Hilda Lewis
• Date: 1939-00-00
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• 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: 320
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. Clute/Grant gives year 1936 for the novel but there is no other evidence for an edition prior to 1939.
  • Undated "Please note that the publication date of 1939 does not appear in the first edition. All later editions have dates listed." --dealer description at ABEbooks (bi=14495202744) as "scarce early edition" That dealer provides one image of frontispiece and undated title page, and book covers ("Red cloth with dark blue ship vignette, dark blue lettering to spine"). Another dealer image shows scarlet and dark blue cover (bi=30049398737).
  • The novel is reviewed briefly in The New Statesman, both 1939-06-24 p1004 (mixed, by K. John) and 1939-07-08 p66 (positive, by Gilbert Baker).
  • Price from "Books Received", Manchester Guardian 1939-06-15 p3.
  • As of 2018-11-17, Amazon UK (ASIN, below, "UK") displays heading/title "The Ship that Flew, etc. A tale for children". Two WorldCat record headings suggest a subtitle by the same use of ", etc." (OCLC 562397909 and 752429511). British Library (BL) gives the short title simply.
• External IDs:
  • ASIN: B0014KKJAG AU BR CA CN DE ES FR IN IT JP MX NL TR UAE UK US (US/UK earn commissions)
  • BL: 002156469
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 19081224 752429511 562397909
  • Reginald-1: 15832
  • Reginald-3: 15832

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Ship That Flew • juvenile • novel by Hilda Lewis
•  The Ship That Flew • interior artwork by Nora Lavrin