• 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:
  • BL: 009021745
  • LCCN: 66075123
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4823252

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Long Ago When I Was Young) • essay by Noel Streatfeild
•  Long Ago When I Was Young • interior artwork by Edward Ardizzone