I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good -/Good -
- Seller
-
Port Robinson, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, brown and Company, 1948. The dust jacket has rips and tears along the edges, corners and spine ends. There are small chunks missing. It is foxed, tanned, faded and dirty. There are a few stains here and there and some spots where the top coat is missing. The hard cover has bumped corners, spine ends and edges that are faded and dirty. The fore edge is tanned and dirty and along the top is blue and has a water mark on the outer edge that has bled down on a few pages. The text block is tanned. There is a dedication to previous owners name in ink and previous price in pencil. On the bottom near the hinge is a small dot of a stain. There are finger smudges throughout. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at the time!. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).. Hard Cover. Good -/Good -. Illus. by Ruth Steed.
Synopsis
I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, and was published in 1948. Smith, who wrote the novel during a sojourn in America, was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. I Capture the Castle relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle in the 1930s. The story is told by Cassandra Mortmain, a bright teenager, through her personal journal.
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Details
- Seller
- 3rsusedbooks
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 015789
- Title
- I Capture the Castle
- Author
- Smith, Dodie
- Illustrator
- Ruth Steed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good -
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
- Publisher
- Little, brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- NO-ISBN, PRE-ISBN, COLLECTIBLES NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance;
Terms of Sale
3rsusedbooks
A full refund will be made for any book that is \\\"not as described.\\\" For other returns, postage shall not be refundable.
About the Seller
3rsusedbooks
Biblio member since 2006
Port Robinson, Ontario
About 3rsusedbooks
2000 sq ft. in the Heart of Downtown St. Catharines near Montebello Park designed by Oldham!!
Glossary
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Stock Photo
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
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