we didnt mean to go to sea
by arthur ransome:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
london jonathan cape 2007 VG/VG Green boards with gilt titling. Pictorial dj with a tad of sunning over the spine, and some minor rubs at both ends. internally clean and bright copy without inscriptions or marginalia . Period feel to this delightful children's adventure book including artwork. Small octavo
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
- lobstabooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55635
- Title
- we didnt mean to go to sea
- Author
- arthur ransome:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- london jonathan cape 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
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About the Seller
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theberton suffolk
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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