I Capture the Castle.
by SMITH, Dodie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Heinemann, London, 1949. . First edition. 8vo, top edge stained red. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt,upper board faded and mottled, fore-edge a little spotted, pictorial dust jacket, edgeworn with creasing, a few closed tears and chipping to extremities but no loss of lettering, still a collectible copy of the author's scarce first novel.
Synopsis
I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, and was published in 1948. Smith, who wrote the novel during a sojourn in America, was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. I Capture the Castle relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle in the 1930s. The story is told by Cassandra Mortmain, a bright teenager, through her personal journal.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98061
- Title
- I Capture the Castle.
- Author
- SMITH, Dodie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- William Heinemann, London, 1949.
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...