The Picts and the Martyrs
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Green cloth with gilt title lettering on the spine, and blind stamped title on the front boards, illustrated by the author, with map decorated endpapers.A good copy, bumped at the corners, no dustwrapper.. First Edition.
Synopsis
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazon s. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002719
- Title
- The Picts and the Martyrs
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- Gilt
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