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I Capture the Castle.
by SMITH, Dodie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann,, 1949. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink... First UK edition, first printing, of the author's wildly successful first novel. Written and published in the United States the previous year, the work reveals Smith's yearning for home: a conscientious objector, Smith and her husband emigrated from England to the US in 1939, spending time in California, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. I Capture the Castle is "a captivating story located in a medieval castle Smith had seen at Wingfield, Suffolk, in 1934, written in the form of the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, aged seventeen, essentially based on the young Dodie" (ODNB). Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, castle vignette to front cover in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. Fly-titles with vignette illustrations by Ruth Steed, after sketches by the author. A little bumped; extremities of jacket lightly chipped and worn with a few short closed tears, else bright and unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164637
- Title
- I Capture the Castle.
- Author
- SMITH, Dodie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: William Heinemann,
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cloth
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