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Publication: The Velveteen Rabbit; or, How Toys Become Real

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  • Publication: The Velveteen Rabbit; or, How Toys Become RealPublication Record # 618381
  • Author: Margery Williams
  • Date: 1970-11-30
  • ISBN: 0-434-97255-X [978-0-434-97255-5]
  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Price:
    25/-?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: 37
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Cover: The Velveteen Rabbit; or, How Toys Become Real by William Nicholson (artist)
  • Notes:
    • WorldCat says of this edition -- "Originally published 1922" -- title fashioned without punctuation
    • The WorldCat record for the 1922 edition (OCLC 223071326) says 35pp, but the wording "Re-issue" and "new impression" (below) suggest that pagination is identical to the 1st ed.
    • Publication date and price from publisher advert The Guardian 1970-11-12 p11; this one "November 30   25s" -- "A re-issue of this famous children's classic ..."
    • Cover image from Amazon UK 2017-05-17 as "New impression edition".
    • Although a "re-issue" with the original interior illustrations by Nicholson, the front cover illustration (relying on Amazon) is "Spring Time", originally published as a plate facing p16.
    • Price 25s. from brief review by Naomi Lewis The Observer 1970-11-29 p31; this one "a forgotten collector's piece from 1922"
  • External IDs:
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Chapbook Title: The Velveteen Rabbit; or, How Toys Become Real • juvenile • (1922) • chapbook by Margery Williams

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