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First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, red topstain. With the pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy in the dust jacket with just a couple of very minor tear and the merest trace of bleed from the cloth to the verso at one fold. In many ways this is the author's masterpiece. Copies this sharp are not so common.

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.