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Publication: Long Ago When I Was Young

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  • Publication: Long Ago When I Was YoungPublication Record # 88884
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Date: 1966-00-00
  • Publisher: Whiting & Wheaton
  • Price:
    18/-?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: 127
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: Long Ago When I Was Young by Edward Ardizzone
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • British Library: B 66-15332 (format from LCCN)
    • Price from New Statesman 1966-11-11 p707, footnote to Penelope Mortimer "Thoughts Concerning Children's Books" (questioning the need for children's novels)
    • The introduction by Streatfeild is not mentioned in library records (below) but reported in Library Journal 91 (1966), p6210, for the 1966-10 US ed. with identical page-count.
  • External IDs:
Nonfiction Title: Long Ago When I Was Young • nonfiction by E. Nesbit (variant of My School Days 1897)

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