I Capture the Castle
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.
First American edition, first printing. [v], 343 pp. Bound in publisher's pale blue cloth with navy stamping. Near Fine with light toning to cloth at extremities, two ownership labels to front endsheet. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and toning and small red penciled number to front flap near price.
A beautiful copy of the classic coming-of-age story about a teenage girl whose family lives in genteel poverty in a decaying castle. Dodie Smith was an established playwright in England, but this novel was written and published in the United States after Smith and her husband relocated in 1940. A reviewer called it "as light, as fresh, as irresistible as the blue ribbon winner at a county fair cake exhibit."
Price: $2,200