Missee Lee: With Many illustrations
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
10th Book in the exciting Swallows and Amazons series. Captain Flint, circumnavigating in the "Wildcat" has an exciting adventure with Pirates in the China Seas. The Amazons, Nancy and Peggy with the Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger join the fun.
103rd Impression of the 1941 first edition. Endpapers illustrated with Coloured Chart. Full-page and In-Text illustrations.
Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped Title on front. 335 p.pages, 680g, 8" tall.
No inscriptions except "B3" penciled on ffep.
Jacket has some nicks at spine ends and some edge wear. Unclipped, original price 16s.
103rd Impression of the 1941 first edition. Endpapers illustrated with Coloured Chart. Full-page and In-Text illustrations.
Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped Title on front. 335 p.pages, 680g, 8" tall.
No inscriptions except "B3" penciled on ffep.
Jacket has some nicks at spine ends and some edge wear. Unclipped, original price 16s.
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
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19236
- Title
- Missee Lee
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's Fiction/Children's Classics/Swallows and Amazons
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Classics; Illustrated Children's Books; Children's Fiction;
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