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Pigeon Post
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0140303936
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303933
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thuis.* Impression: 11th.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Puffin/Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps, minimal rubs to top and bottom edges. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. minimal colouration to page edges. Seems un-read. VG++* Illustrations: B/w line drawings & vignettes by the author throughout.* Pages: 382 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In this, the sixth instalment of Ransome's twelve-book Swallows and Amazons series, the Walker family, "Swallows" and the Blackett sisters, "Amazons" turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers. However they discover that a mysterious stranger in a ?squashy hat? is after the gold as well and soon realise how dangerous the fells can be and how vital their homing pigeons will prove to be.* This is a NEAR FINE un-read copy with minimal shelf wear.*
Synopsis
From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different until a man of otherworldly beauty arrived during her night shift in the ER. Gryphon is hurting and hunted...and he attracts her as no man ever has before. He is a Monere, one of the children of the moon—and what's more, so is she...Long exiled from the moon, the men of the Monere serve—and mate—with imperious Queens, who can channel the rays of their far-off homeland. Gryphon believes that Mona Lisa is a Queen—perhaps the first of Mixed Blood ever known. But her introduction to the nighttime court of the Monere, simmering with intrigue, casual lust, and calculated cruelty, is far from smooth. The other Queens are infuriated by her potential powers, and they are all menaced by a group of rogue males who have broken away from the women's sway. Even as she battles threats from within and without, Mona Lisa is determined to discover who she is, and to explore the limits of her growing power—and her secret desires...
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2548
- Title
- Pigeon Post
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0140303936
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303933
- Publisher
- Penguin / Puffin
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 0
- This edition first published
- 1969
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