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  • Publication: Alice in Orchestra LandPublication Record # 577279
  • Author: Ernest La Prade
  • Date: 1934-10-00
  • Publisher: Cobden-Sanderson
  • Price:
    3/6?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: 170
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed. of the work, 1st ed. this title
    • 1st printing "First published October, 1934. Second impression November, 1934." --library records (LCCN and OCLC, below)
    • "Case binding of red cloth. Title, author and publisher in white on spine. Illustrated dust jacket." "Decorations by Malcolm Easton. Line photoengravings." --OCLC One dealer at Amazon (2019-10-07) provides an image of the 3rd printing, 1935, with jacket, ASIN B001PF5C8Y.
    • "Foreword by Dr. Malcolm Sargent, F.R.C.M." --publisher advertisement (below) Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967) was "chief conductor of London's internationally famous summer music festival the Proms from 1948 to 1967" (from his Wikipedia biography).
    • Publication date from listing in "This Week's Diary", The Observer 1934-10-07 p6: "chief books appearing this week", under Thursday; probably -10-11, possibly -10-04.
    • Price from publisher advertisement, The Observer -11-04 p8; "This most original book tells children, in the manner of a fantastic story, all there is to know about the various instruments in an orchestra."
    • Cover image from Amazon UK 2019-10-06.
  • External IDs:
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