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The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome by Arthur Ransome, Signed

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A Signed Second Edition of 'The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome' by Arthur Ransome in Very Good condition published by Jonathan Cape Limited in 1945

The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome by Arthur Ransome, Second Edition

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Condition Summary: (Very Good) Inscribed from the author to Charles Bolte, the Vice President of Viking Press. A sound book with clean covers and pages, and with no inscriptions. Slight browning around the edges of the pages which is SIGNED

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Book Number B0011423
Title The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome
Author(s) Author: Ransome, Arthur [Mitchell]

Arthur [Mitchell] Ransome (1884 to 1967)—English author and journalist, born in Leeds and best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books (Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts And The Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All and Great Northern?). He was also the author of forty or so other titles including other children's books, fishing books, sailing books and books on politics

Edition and Format Second EditionEdition identified by: No later editions or printings stated in the publisher's imprint information

Staplebound. 27 printed pages in printed card wrapper with red, yellow and black decoration. One tale based on a Russian folk story, [Hammond A20]
Publisher(s) Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 1945

Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its most books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House.

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