Winter Holiday
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. First impression of the first edition. Green cloth boards, no dj. Winter Holiday blind stamped to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine and board edges are bumped. Boards have markings. Some foxing to page edges and prelims. Endpapers have spotting and markings. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing. 8vo. 1933
Synopsis
Winter Holiday is the fourth novel of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1933. In this story, the third set of major characters in the series, the Ds — Dick and Dorothea Callum—are introduced. The series' usual emphasis on boats and sailing is largely absent, as the story is set in the winter. Instead, the children's activities focus on ice skating, signalling with semaphore and Morse code and sledging.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5539
- Title
- Winter Holiday
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo.
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Petworth, West Sussex
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Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...