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Peter Duck
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
-
Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. First impression of the first edition. Green cloth boards. Gilt lettering to front and spine. Spine and board edges bumped. Spine is faded and the shoulders are splitting. Shelf wear and fading to boards. No dust jacket. Pages are age tanned but clean. small black ink stains to title page and frontispiece. 8vo. In fair to good condition. 1932
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
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5535
- Title
- Peter Duck
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex
About Reader’s Books
Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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