The Deltora Book of Monsters: By Josef, Palace Librarian in the Reign of King Alton

Overview:

  • Title: The Deltora Book of Monsters: By Josef, Palace Librarian in the Reign of King Alton
  • Author: Emily Rodda
  • Year: 2003
  • ISBN-10: 1865045934
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press / Scholastic Australia
  • Price: A$
  • Pages: [46]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Deltora Book of Monsters
  • Notes:
    • No printed price.
    • Large format - approx. A4 (bit shorter)
    • Pages are unnumbered - manual count done. (48pp if include the title page & copyright page)
    • Contains a collection of fictional "articles" / anecdotes about Deltora monsters, allegedly written by "Josef, Palace Librarian in the reign of King Alton".
    • The only explicit publication date on copyright page is:
        First published by Scholastic Australia in 2001.
      • The number line on the copy used for this data indicates first printing. Interestingly, the year line indicates 2002.
      nevertheless, other evidence indicates this edition was published in 2003 (& 2003 used for this record based on this evidence) ...
    • The National Library of Australia record - [here] for this ISBN has [2003], perhaps indicating that it was 2003, but that the copyright page wasn't updated from the original edition (presumably ISBN = 1865043699).
      Google Books has March 2003.
      The OCLC record (link below) has 2003 & "Previously published 2001".