Pigeon Post
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth, map endpages. First edition. Slightly canted, corners bumped, scattered foxing, PO inscription. The DJ in mylar is foxed, toned, torn along flap fold, creased, and has lost the bottom third of the spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages .
Synopsis
Pigeon Post is the sixth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1936. It won the first Carnegie Medal awarded for children's literature. This book is one of the few Swallows and Amazons books that does not feature sailing. All the action takes place on and under the fells surrounding the Lake.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43409
- Title
- Pigeon Post
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...