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  • Publication: The Hamish Hamilton Book of GoblinsPublication Record # 682776
  • Editor: Alan Garner
  • Date: 1969-00-00
  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
  • Price:
    30/-?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: ix+227
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins by Krystyna Turska
  • Notes:
    • First edition of the anthology (or collection; see the main Title)
    • Price from publisher advertisement "Christmas Books from Hamish Hamilton" (only 3), The Guardian 1969-11-03 p9, "This notable addition to a distinguished series is finely illustrated by Krystyna Turska."
    • WorldCat library record OCLC 25058 reports ISBN 0241017300 (probably that of an undated 1972 reissue, OCLC 367506306) and provides a list of Contents (41? stories and poems). OCLC 806423235 gives page-count VIII, 227. OCLC 639737520 as "[1970] (c)1969" notes -- "Notes and sources": pages 222-226.
    • This volume of series "The Hamish Hamilton Book of ..." not found 2018-09-14 at Amazon UK/US.
    • One seller description at ABEbooks opens, "May 01, 1969."; it gives no explanation of the date, nor any edition/printing number.
    • Cover artist is interior illustrator Turska --presumed with support from one ABEbooks seller image of the front cover, offered as 1969 and "First edition, first printing" (yet header displays ISBN-10: 0241017300) shows front cover illustration that matches the Turska illustration of US A Cavalcade of Goblins and the Puffin Book of Goblins (viewed at Amazon and ISFDB).
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by Amazon.com
Anthology Title: The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins • anthology by Alan Garner

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