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I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie; introduction by Valerie Grove
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Folio Society, 1997. Classic of a girl's coming-of-age in 1930s England, where her eccentric & poor family inhabit a run-down castle whose denizens the protagonist 'captures' in her prose; the castle is inherited by a wealthy American family, romance ensues. Attractively bound with line drawings by Brouwer; unknown Folio printing, as new in shrinkwrap, as pictured. . Reprint. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Aafke Brouwer. Octavo.
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
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- x1021
- Title
- I Capture the Castle
- Author
- Smith, Dodie; introduction by Valerie Grove
- Illustrator
- Aafke Brouwer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Literature, Illustrated Books, Romance, England
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Reprint
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- Poor
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- Octavo
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- Folio
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