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Publication: What-O'Clock Tales

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  • Publication: What-O'Clock TalesPublication Record # 597762
  • Author: Laurence Housman
  • Date: 1932-10-00
  • Publisher: Basil Blackwell
  • 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+225
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: What-O'Clock Tales (1932) • by J. R. Monsell
  • Notes: 1st ed. OCLC 913314335 has a description of cover (not jacket) OCLC 776817850 has list of Contents -- "Printed in Great Britain for Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd." Price from listing Manchester Guardian 1932-10-12 p5 "Books Received" Publ date inferred from that and October advertise/announce-ment of a US ed. Stella & Rose's Books (StellaBooks.com), Stock no. 1306705 as of 2016-12-13, provides list of Contents identical except:   "What-O'Clocks' (verse)" precedes the 15 items   "Tales of a Woodcutter" comprises 7 numbered sections(?) "Tales of a Woodcutter" (see that Title) is entered as a novelette by analogy to "The Bound Princess" (1898). UPDATE from USERNAME 08-04-2021: "Tales of a Woodcutter" is comprised of The Old Yew-Tree, The White-thorn's Story, The Wisdom of the Forest, The Wood-Fairies, The Wood-Find, The Happy Forest, and How the Waggoner filled His Sack. Updated info and contents' page numbers from photo seen on Richarddalbyslibrary.com.
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Collection Title: What-O'Clock Tales • (1932) • collection by Laurence Housman

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