Rule 1. Describe the item you have in hand. Record the following details in this order and with this punctuation:
Title : subtitle / author's name as given ; names of other person or bodies named on the title page, label, container, title frame, etc. -- Edition (abbreviated). -- Place of publication : Publisher, Year of publication.
Number of pages, volumes, discs, reels, objects, etc. ; Dimensions of the object (metric). -- (Name of series)
Descriptive notes
Examples of descriptions

1. His last bow : some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes / A. Conan Doyle. -- London : Murray, 1917.
   305 p. ; 20 cm. -- (Murray's fiction library)
2. A white sport coat and a pink custacean / Jimmy Buffett. -- New York : ABC, 1973.
   1 sound disc. ; 12 in.
   Backing by the Coral Reefer Band.

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