After Candlemas

Overview:

  • Title: After Candlemas
  • Author: Ruth M. Arthur
  • Year: 1974
  • ISBN-10: 0689301294
  • Publisher: Atheneum
  • Price: $5.25
  • Pages: 121
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: After Candlemas
  • Notes:
      1st ed. (So stated in the book, Amazon UK reports. Early in April the UK publisher announced this work forthcoming later that month.)
    • Publication date from contemporary review by Kirkus (see the novel record)
    • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports: -- "[1st ed.]" -- "0689301294 (lib. bdg.)" (only one ISBN) The former indicates 1st edition inferred or investigated rather than stated; the latter a library binding format.
    • Cover image from Amazon US 2018-09-29 as Hardcover; "Atheneum; 1st edition (1974)". Amazon UK provides no cover image and reports Hardcover; "Atheneum; Ex-library/stated first Edition edition (1974)". (That is, neither Amazon site reports Library Binding format.)
    • Cover artist is interior illustrator Gill, as expected, and plainly from comparison with cover images of other Arthur/Gill collaborations.
    • Price on front flap of Archive.org copy.
    • Price and March publication from "Atheneum Books for Children Spring 1974", School Library Journal 20.7 (Mar 1974) p4-5, as ages "10-14. $5.25. March".