PETER DUCK
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Jacket - None/Hardcover
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
£11.00£9.90
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1937. Pages - 432. Jacket - None/Hardcover. 1. Used - Very Good. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents very clean and no inscription. Nice gilt title on spine and front cover.
Synopsis
Peter Duck is a metafictional book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was first published in 1932 and is about the Swallows and Amazons sailing to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck to recover buried treasure. During the voyage the Wildcat (Captain Flint's boat) is chased by another vessel, the Viper, whose piratical crew are also intending to recover the treasure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Berkshire Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5432
- Title
- PETER DUCK
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Illustrator
- Used - Very Good
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket - None
- Jacket Condition
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Pages - 432
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 1
- Keywords
- N
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Berkshire Rare Books
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....