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DIDO AND PA.
by AIKEN, Joan.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Cape 1986.. FIRST EDITION 1986, 8vo, dark blue boards, gilt lettered spine, 251 pages. Black and white illustrations by Pat Marriott. Another of Dido Twite's fantastical adventures set in London. No inscriptions, tiny bump at bottom of lower hinge (see image), pages faintly browned, otherwise a Fine crisp clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, tiny bump at bottom of lower hinge. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Synopsis
Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Now back in print, Dido and Pa continues the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Dido Twite is finally back home in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the Duke of Battersea and a favorite of King Richard. But no sooner does Dido start to settle in than her rascally father, Abednago, appears and drags her off into the night. Soon Dido finds herself caught up in the midst of another dastardly Hanoverian conspiracy: a plot involving a mysterious double for the king, the miraculous healing powers of music, and a spy network made up of abandoned street children called lollpoops. Meanwhile, out in the forest, starving wolves are closing in on the city . . .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46802
- Title
- DIDO AND PA.
- Author
- AIKEN, Joan.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Cape 1986.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dido twite fantasy London Blackheath Wapping children's fiction novel
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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