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Peter Duck
de Ransome, Arthur
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0099963108
- ISBN 13
- 9780099963103
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Red Fox (Random House)* Binding and cover condition: Soft card colour illustration to covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawn map to frontis and numerous drawings within text. (Facsimiles of the original drawings from the first hardback editions.)* Pages: 475 pp. text. ix pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The Swallows & Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when the hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days ~ a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themselves up against sharks, storm, earthquake - and the vilest pirate who ever eavesdropped at a porthole.* This is a FINE copy with minimal shelf wear. See also Swallows and Amazons, & Swallows & Amazons for ever! In the same edition from the same seller.*
Sinopsis
Peter Duck is a metafictional book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was first published in 1932 and is about the Swallows and Amazons sailing to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck to recover buried treasure. During the voyage the Wildcat (Captain Flint's boat) is chased by another vessel, the Viper, whose piratical crew are also intending to recover the treasure.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5432
- Título
- Peter Duck
- Autor
- Ransome, Arthur
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - F/F/ND
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0099963108
- ISBN 13
- 9780099963103
- Editorial
- Red Fox
- Lugar de publicación
- London Uk 496
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1993
- Size
- 17.4 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Cocksparrow Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Sobre Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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....
