"Sixpenny or sevenpenny?" said the girl, trying to put me off my balance at the very beginning. ❋ Unknown (1919)
"Three sixpenny and four sevenpenny," I said casually, flicking the dust off my shoes with a handkerchief. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)
I also bought off him a couple of well-worn sevenpenny novels. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
For when there are no six-shilling novels to reprint, obviously there can be no sevenpenny reprints of them. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
But the Shaw and Co. report makes Messrs. Nelson give as one reason for not abandoning the sevenpenny enterprise the fact that "the machinery already in existence is too costly to be abandoned." ❋ 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_. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
It is comforting to perceive that this wickedness on the part of the sevenpenny reprint cannot indefinitely continue. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Well, it is notorious that if the sevenpenny publishers are publishing one particular book just now, that book is "Kipps." ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
On the other hand, the remarks of the sevenpenny publishers themselves are not undiverting. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
But is that a reason for abolishing the sevenpenny? ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Messrs. Nelson could not possibly make the sevenpenny reprint pay. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
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 ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Did the mandarins imagine that they were going to stop the sevenpenny, that anything could stop it? ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
The publishers made one very true statement to the authors, namely, that sevenpenny editions give the public the impression that 6s. is an excessive price for a novel. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
But the largest firms, Smith and Son and Wymans, "do not find that the sevenpenny has interfered with the 6s. novel." ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
Thirdly, the sevenpenny reprint of the popular novel is ruining the already ruined six-shilling novel. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
There is justice in England yet; but a well-known member of the trade has not noticed that the sevenpenny novel, in killing its own father, must kill itself. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
The one - and-sixpenny set dinner receded from an everyday event to a Sunday extravagance; on ordinary days the artist contented himself with a sevenpenny omelette and some bread and cheese, and there were evenings when he did not put in an appearance at all. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
It was a sevenpenny-halfpenny trumpery thing that pretended to be silver; it had a glass heart of turquoise blue hanging from it, and it was the gift of the maid-of-all-work at the ❋ Unknown (1891)
