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Swallows and Amazons for Ever! containing abridged editions of Coot Club and The Big Six
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0099964201
- ISBN 13
- 9780099964209
- Seller
-
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. Light crease to front cover. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Absolutely minimal colouration to page margins. Seems un-read. VG++* Illustrations: Sadly none.* Pages: 393 pp. text. vii pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Containing abridges editions of Coot Club and The Big Six, this compilation is based on the film Swallows and Amazons for Ever. A chance encounter in a train, on their way to the Norfolk Broads, introduces Dick and Dorothea to the members of the Coot Club and plunges them into an exciting adventure. This and learning to sail add up to the best holiday they have ever had.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear and page colouration reducing it to VG++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5443
- Title
- Swallows and Amazons for Ever! containing abridged editions of Coot Club and The Big Six
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0099964201
- ISBN 13
- 9780099964209
- Publisher
- Red Fox
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 393
- This edition first published
- 2004
- Size
- 17 x 10.9 x 3 cm
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