I Capture the Castle (First UK Edition)
by Dodie Smith
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Near Fine with a bright lavender topstain, in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Small owner name stamp and date of 1949, with a matching personal library entry stamp on the copyright page. Jacket shows no loss, with just a bit of nicking and rubbing here and there, a lightly faded spine (backstrip same), and a tiny date stamp of 1949 on the spine panel. A very pleasing copy overall.
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
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125458
- Title
- I Capture the Castle (First UK Edition)
- Author
- Dodie Smith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Literature | Books into Film | Author's First Book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Books into Film;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...