The Picts and the Martyrs
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Bound in the publishers emerald green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine. The 302 pages remain in fresh, clean condition with one neat gift inscription to verso of front endpaper. Gilt title lettering is sharp and legible. Double matching illustrated endpapers of colour maps to front and rear of book are in very nice condition with no marks or fading. Title of book blindstamped to front board as published. Numerous black and white illustrations support the text throughout. The photograph provided is a picture of the book and we are happy to send more images on request. Overall an attractive copy of this increasingly scarce Arthur Ransome First Edition title.. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Synopsis
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazon s. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000439
- Title
- The Picts and the Martyrs
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1943
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Herefordshire
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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