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Secret water
de Ransome, Arthur
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- Librería
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Jonathan Cape. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription dated 1939 on half title page, in an unclipped dustjacket which is worn at the spine, chipped at the edges, has minor loss at spine ends and foldovers and a repaired tear/crease at bottom corner of front cover. 380 pages, illustrations in the text, map endpapers .
Sinopsis
Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1939. This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. It brings the Swallows and the Amazons together and introduces a new group of characters, the Eels and the Mastodon. Ransome used to sail to Hamford Water, an area of tidal salt marshes and low-lying islands, in his yacht Nancy Blackett.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 67818
- Título
- Secret water
- Autor
- Ransome, Arthur
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape
- Fecha de publicación
- 1939
- Palabras clave
- Swallows & Amazons, Children's adventure stories, Sailing
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction / Childrens;
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Sobre Aucott & Thomas
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- Jacket
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- Half Title
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- Edges
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
