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Publication: The Treasure of the Isle of Mist: A Tale of the Isle of Skye

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  • Publication: The Treasure of the Isle of Mist: A Tale of the Isle of SkyePublication Record # 692494
  • Author: W. W. Tarn
  • Date: 1959-04-00
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Pub. Series: Oxford Children's Library
  • Pub. Series #: 18
  • 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: 150
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • 3rd Oxford ed.
    • Publication date (as forthcoming) and price from "Limits of the Imagination" by Mary Crozier, Manchester Guardian 1959-03-20 p12: Concerning "the great output of children's book in recent years ... [OUP] has cast its net wide and brought a number of them into a new series--the Oxford Children's Library at the price of 5s. Three more of the series are due in April", including this one. (This one is much older than most.)
    • Cover image from Amazon UK 2018-11-15 as Hardcover, 1762[year!], and "(1959-12-05)". See also ASIN 0192770187.
    • WorldCat library record OCLC 220366867 reports an implausible combination: -- 2nd ed (known to be the 1950, with new illustrations by Gill) -- 1959, Oxford children's library (known to be the 1959) -- ISBN 0192770187 -- viii+150 pages (as reported for the 2nd) (Library records all? report both eds. size 20cm )
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