We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
de Ransome, Arthur
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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New York: Macmillan, 1938. 1st, Stated 1st pr. HB. Blue cloth, white lettering on front cover and spine, white sailing ship on front cover, 8vo., 335 pp. Some slight soiling to covers, owners name ffep, map end papers. Remnants of dust jacket tipped in at back. Book condition VG-.
Sinopsis
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News . In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian . He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post . He died in 1967.
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- Librería
- Parker's Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- AO2517
- Título
- We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
- Autor
- Ransome, Arthur
- Formato/Encuadernación
- HB
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- 1st, Stated 1st pr
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Adventure;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
