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Peter Duck
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0099963108
- ISBN 13
- 9780099963103
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Red Fox (Random House)* Binding and cover condition: Soft card colour illustration to covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawn map to frontis and numerous drawings within text. (Facsimiles of the original drawings from the first hardback editions.)* Pages: 475 pp. text. ix pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The Swallows & Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when the hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days ~ a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themselves up against sharks, storm, earthquake - and the vilest pirate who ever eavesdropped at a porthole.* This is a FINE copy with minimal shelf wear. See also Swallows and Amazons, & Swallows & Amazons for ever! In the same edition from the same seller.*
Synopsis
Peter Duck is a metafictional book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was first published in 1932 and is about the Swallows and Amazons sailing to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck to recover buried treasure. During the voyage the Wildcat (Captain Flint's boat) is chased by another vessel, the Viper, whose piratical crew are also intending to recover the treasure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5432
- Title
- Peter Duck
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0099963108
- ISBN 13
- 9780099963103
- Publisher
- Red Fox
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 496
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Size
- 17.4 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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