THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome
Published by Jonathan Cape
in 1943
THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1405132
1st.
1943.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners are bumped. Some marks to covers. Book leans slightly to one side. Small pieces missing from bottom of some pages and from come page corners. Foxing to page edges
THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 2106037
1st.
1943.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Bumping to spine. Name in ink to half-title page. Foxing/brown markings to outer page edges.
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THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1804578
1st.
1943.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Pale grease stain to lower edge of spine & boards. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Pale grease type stain to lower gutter edge of pages at rear half of contents. Pictorial wrapper is lightly worn at corners with slight loss, browned at spine and rear panel.
THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 565908
1st.
1943.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light browning/foxing to textblock.
THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 805278
1944.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine slightly discoloured.
Front cover
Contents
- The Great Aunt strongly disapproved when she heard that Mrs. Blackett had left Nancy and Peggy in charge at Beckfoot. She would have disapproved still more if she had known that they had been allowed to have visitors (Dick and Dorothea) whilst their mother was away. The visitors had hardly settled down when a letter arrived from the Great Aunt to say she was to arrive that evening. What was to be done? The D's could not go home - everything had been arranged beforehand. Somehow or other they had to disappear without going away. Nancy and Peggy settled down to keep the Great Aunt happy.
- But it was not as easy as it seemed when Nancy first rushed them off to the old hut in the wood. More and more people had to be let in on the secret until half the countryside was wishing Nancy had never thought of her plan. Nancy and Peggy, gallant martyrs, were having a dreadful time. Dick and Dorothea were learning to live like Picts, outlaws or badgers whose very existence had to be kept hidden. Work that was to have been done in Captain Flint's study had to be done in the houseboat. Beckfoot had to be burgled to get the things they needed. And then, The very day before she was going, the Great Aunt herself disappeared and it looked as if Nancy's good intentions had ended in disaster.