Posted by Mike Field on June 09, 2011 at 15:28:54 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Stats posted by Owen Roberts on May 27, 2011 at 16:09:13:
I have a hard-cover book published in the UK in 1948 {"The Island of the Pines' by Elleston Trevor) that was still produced to war-time standards. It carried a note to that effect on the blurb page, it was printed on what was essentially newsprint, and the dust-jacket was printed on the reverse of some sort of packaging wrapper.
I also have a story by Compton Mackenzie that was designed to be published as a one-volume hard-cover, but was produced in two separate volumes (Part 1 and Part 2, both hard-covers,) apparently to abide by war-time publishing restrictions. I've never succeeded in working that one out.