The Silver Crown
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Overview:
- Title: The Silver Crown
- Author: Robert C. O'Brien
- Year: 1968
- Publisher: Atheneum
- Price: $4.43
- Pages: 274
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Silver Crown
- Notes:
- 1st ed., library binding (cover image and price)
- Data from Internet Archive scan
- "First Edition"
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd."
- No printing line
- Publication year alone stated (title page): "Atheneum NEW YORK 1968"
- LCCN per copyright page
- Publication date from contemporary review by Kirkus (very negative; see the novel record).
- Front cover states "Spartan Binding". Wikipedia shows cover image as first edition, with that space blank, which must be the trade hardcover format. Atheneum advertisement of its Spring 1970 list explains, "(Spartan Bindings--washable reinforced institutional bindings)". Expected trade hardcover price is $4.95.