Title: The Begum's Fortune
Title Record # 2692946
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1958-00-00
Variant Title of: Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum [French] (1879) (by A. Laurie and Jules Verne) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 18
Language: English
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Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1958-00-00
Variant Title of: Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum [French] (1879) (by A. Laurie and Jules Verne) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 18
Language: English
Note: Translated by W. H. G. Kingston and edited and abridged by I. O. Evans.
This translation begins:
""Really these English newspapers are very well written," said the worthy doctor to himself, as he leant back in the great leathern easy-chair. All his life, Dr. Sarrasin had been given to soliloquizing, one of the many results of his absence of mind."
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Begum's Fortune | 1958-00-00 | Jules Verne | Associated Booksellers (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne) | $3.00?$: US dollar |
191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
The Begum's Fortune | 1958-00-00 | Jules Verne | Bernard Hanison (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne) | 12/6?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). |
191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
The Begum's Fortune | 1968-00-00 | Jules Verne | Ace Books (The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne (Ace)) | H-49 | $0.60?$: US dollar |
191 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Jerome Podwil , Ron Miller |