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Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons series)
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0140303391
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303391
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 15th.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Puffin/Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated covers. No bumps, minimal rubs to top and bottom edges. No creases to spine or hinge. Small tear at base of spine, repaired, 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: 441 pp. text. iv pp. Advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In this, the second instalment of Ransome's twelve-book Swallows and Amazons series. The Swallows return to the lake for another summer camping on their island alongside their allies, the Amazon pirates. But the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. If they can't have the island, there's always Swallowdale, a secret valley, hidden from the world. * This is a NEAR FINE un-read copy with minimal shelf wear & a small spine fault reducing it to VG.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3225
- Title
- Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons series)
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, Late Rep.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140303391
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303391
- Publisher
- Penguin, Puffin
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 0
- This edition first published
- 1968
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...