• Publication: The Mystery of Arthur Gordon PymPublication Record # 710931
• Authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne
• Date: 1961-00-00
• Publisher: Arco Publishing
• Pub. Series: The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne
• Price:
  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).
• Pages: 191
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes: "Devised and introduced by Basil Ashmore". Title page has "London" over "Arco Publications" over "1910". Table of contents also contains under The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket "Introduction by Basil Ashmore" (p. 7) (actually titled "Introduction" and dated June 1960), and "Note" (p. 74) and under The Sphinx of the Ice-Fields "Introduction" (p. 79) and "Editorial Footnote" (although the footnote is actually titled "Editorial Postscript") (p. 191). Source

  • From a scanned copy at archive.org sourced from Digital Library of India (Item 2015.149578).
  • Price (12s6d) and date (1961) from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 733596787
  • Reginald-1: 11749

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket • [Pym • 1] • (1838) • novel by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Sphinx of the Ice-Fields • [Pym • 2] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Le Sphinx des glaces 1897)