sevenpenny

"Three sixpenny and four sevenpenny," I said casually, flicking the dust off my shoes with a handkerchief.

Once a Week 1919

"Sixpenny or sevenpenny?" said the girl, trying to put me off my balance at the very beginning.

Once a Week 1919

In England, an edition of 5,000 copies a fortnight was the rule for many months after the one-volume edition appeared; hundreds of thousands have been circulated in the sixpenny and sevenpenny editions; it has been translated into most foreign tongues; and it is still, after thirty years, a living book.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

I also bought off him a couple of well-worn sevenpenny novels.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

It is to be added that the tremendous supply of sevenpenny bound volumes of modern fiction, and of shilling bound volumes of modern belles-lettres

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

Shaw, Hewlett, and Hope have written an official account of their impressions of the great sevenpenny question, and it appears in the current number of the _Author_.

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

It is comforting to perceive that this wickedness on the part of the sevenpenny reprint cannot indefinitely continue.

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

Well, it is notorious that if the sevenpenny publishers are publishing one particular book just now, that book is "Kipps."

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

Did the mandarins imagine that they were going to stop the sevenpenny, that anything could stop it?

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899

Thirdly, the sevenpenny reprint of the popular novel is ruining the already ruined six-shilling novel.

Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899