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Night Birds on Nantucket.
de AIKEN, Joan
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London, United Kingdom
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London: Jonathan Cape,, 1966. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. Night Birds on Nantucket is the third book in the Wolves Chronicles, a series set in an alternate 19th century where the Stuart kings remained in power. The illustrations were drawn by Pat Marriott, who designed the covers for Fleming's Dr No and with whom Aiken worked for 30 years. In 1968 Aiken won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for another book in the series, The Whispering Mountain. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge black, map endpapers. With illustrated jacket. Line drawings in the text. Spine leaning with ends bumped, endpapers toned; jacket unclipped, spine toned, extremities with minor tears or chips, light soiling of rear panel: a very good copy in like jacket.
Sinopsis
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale.
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- Librería
- Peter Harrington
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 166305
- Título
- Night Birds on Nantucket.
- Autor
- AIKEN, Joan
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- Usado
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- Lugar de publicación
- London: Jonathan Cape,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
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Peter Harrington
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Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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