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First edition. 8vo; top edge stained red. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt,upper board faded and mottled, fore-edge a little spotted, pictorial dust jacket, edgeworn with creasing, a few closed tears and chipping to extremities but no loss of lettering, still a collectible copy of the author's scarce first novel.

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.