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We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
0 First edition/6th imp. Published by Jonathan Cape, London 1938. VG clean condition. Previous owner's name to ffep and first blank endpaper. MIld spotting to endpages and page edges. Very clean and bright Green cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped. Minor wear to edges. Slight tanning to spine. Protected in archive cover.
Synopsis
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News . In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian . He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post . He died in 1967.
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- Bookseller
- Idlegeniusbooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008226
- Title
- We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 5th or later Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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We are a small trader specialising in Modern First Editions. We are also the book 'Experts' for Cashintheattic and value books for insurance and Probate.Our stock includes many signed books and Ephemera items. We also sell books on London and Architecture.
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- Price Clipped
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- 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....
- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- VG
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