• Publication: The Treasure of the Isle of Mist: A Tale of the Isle of SkyePublication Record # 692194
• Author: W. W. Tarn
• Date: 1938-00-00
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Price:
  5/-^?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: 166
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st Oxford edition 1st ed. with this subtitle(?)
  • Price from newspaper coverage June/July 1938; earliest "Books Received", Irish Times 1938-06-04 p7. Summer publication is probable, rather than spring, as one article notes that "a summer publication season is likely to breed traditions of its own".
  • New illustrations Illustrated by the author's photographs of the Isle of Skye -- photos taken or collected by Tarn? (newspaper wording differs) -- 22 or 24 leaves of unnumbered plates? (WorldCat library records differ, OCLC below)
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 221915865 4798350

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• The Treasure of the Isle of Mist: A Tale of the Isle of Skye • juvenile • novel by W. W. Tarn (variant of The Treasure of the Isle of Mist 1919)