- Publication: Long Ago When I Was YoungPublication Record # 88884
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Date: 1966-00-00
- Publisher: Whiting & Wheaton
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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
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NONFICTION
- Cover: Long Ago When I Was Young by Edward Ardizzone
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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.
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Nonfiction Title:
Long Ago When I Was Young • nonfiction by E. Nesbit (variant of My School Days 1897)
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