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The Big Six [Swallows and Amazons series]
by Arthur Ransome
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8vo). ix. 353pp. Bound in publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the boards ever so lightly handled, a small scuff of the bottom edge, former owner name neatly on the paste-down, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows just a light hint of shelf rubbing along the edges, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct having been exceptionally well maintained. As pictured.
Synopsis
The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club. This book is more of a detective story as the Ds and Coot Club try to unravel a mystery that threatens the Death and Glories freedom to sail the river.
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- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L344
- Title
- The Big Six [Swallows and Amazons series]
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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