CAUGHT BY REVOLUTION

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***Jacket design and black and white line drawings by Margaret Wolpe.***Very good in orange cloth covered boards with red titles and decoration to spine and front board. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Top and bottom of spine slightly bumped. Slight crease to tail of spine lightly affecting first few bottom inner corners of pages at spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Fore-edge and bottom edge of text block foxed, affecting outer margins of only a few interior pages. Light crease near top edge of front paste-down. In a very good colour illustrated dust-jacket, which is slightly worn and creased at the edges. Two short closed tears to top edge of front panel. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel slightly discoloured (being white background). Small amount of foxing to bottom outer corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket and spine bright. No fading. Dust-jacket not price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 10s 6d net.***167 pages.***204 mm x 138 mm.***'Peter Slavine, whose early adventures were told in A Boy in Samarkand, is, at the start of this exciting story, a very young cadet in the Imperial Russian Naval Academy. He goes to a State Ball at the Palace of Tsarskoe Selo and he has a memorable encounter with the mysterious monk Rasputin. Then the revolution starts and although at first it seemed remote enough from the affairs of the Academy, Peter soon finds himself caught by it when armed mutiny breaks out in the Academy itself. The tale of his subsequent adventures has the breath of reality to add to its dangers and thrills because the author can draw on his own memories to give the authentic background.' (Quote from inside front jacket blurb).***Uncommon children's fiction first edition, especially in complete original dust-jacket.***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de ref. del artículo 1828

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