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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Dodie Smith and inscribed by her to George Landy on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Landy was a veteran of the film industry and writer of the 1931 film Sidewalks of New York. He also worked as a literary agent, and was married to the American dancer and actress Kathrine McGuire. Bound in publisher's original pale blue cloth with navy stamping. Near Fine with fading to cloth at spine and edges, news clipping taped to rear pastedown. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning at the spine and edges, light soiling, light edge wear with shallow chipping. The British author's first novel, written in California and first published in the US. Signed copies of the first printing are very scarce.

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.

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