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Missee Lee
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Seventh Impression. 335 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Heavy water stains and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and noticeable rubbing to spine.
Synopsis
Missee Lee is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1941. This is considered one of the metafictional books of the series. It is set in 1930s China. The Swallows and Amazons are on a round the world trip with Captain Flint aboard the schooner Wild Cat. After the Wild Cat sinks, they escape in the Swallow and Amazon but are separated in a storm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1649181399LEE
- Title
- Missee Lee
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1947
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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