• Publication: The MousewifePublication Record # 734437
• Author: Rumer Godden
• Date: 1951-00-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  7/6^?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: 43
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: The Mousewife by
  William Pène du Bois^?William Pene du Bois
• Notes: British Library (BL) reports 37 pp. WorldCat record OCLC 4917057 reports 43 pp. OCLC 837736467 and OCLC 154150062 report a 1963 reprint (4th printing?) as 37 pp. Price from brief review in "History, Fantasy and Verse" by Gwendolen Freeman, The Spectator 1951-12-07 p784. Cover artist is interior illustrator Pène du Bois, presumably for this new children's picture book.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001443993
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4917057

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Mousewife • juvenile • (1951) • short story by Rumer Godden
•  The Mousewife • (1951) • interior artwork by
  William Pène du Bois^?William Pene du Bois