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The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome at All
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Seventh Impression. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece, with other illustrations throughout. Colour maps to endpapers. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Noticeable marking to some pages throughout; text is not obscured. Binding is firm. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is slightly tanned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Gilt remains bright. Heavy rubbing and scuffing overall, with some small marks also. Book has a slight forward lean.
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
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1675200528LEE
- Title
- The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome at All
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1948
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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