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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. [iv], 338 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping, red topstain. Very Good with slight foxing to edges, a few small stains to rear board, in Very Good dust jacket with worn head, chip at bottom corner of front panel, a few tiny stains with holes in them in back panel, tape reinforcements to verso, unclipped (9s6d). A serviceable copy of the British author's debut novel. She would later write The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which inspired an animated Disney film.

I Capture the Castle is a novel by Dodie Smith, written in the form of the journals of 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain. She chronicles her eccentric family's life in their dilapidated English castle and her own coming-of-age experiences.

Check for the original cover art published by Little, Brown and Company in 1948.