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FIRST EDITION, each section-title with an illustration by Ruth Steed (based on sketches by the author), pp. [iv], 338, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, the upper board with a Steed vignette stamped in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt with just a touch of fading, top edge red, the others with a few small spots, dustjacket nicked and chipped with thumbnail sized chip at foot of rear panel, slight rubbing to extremities, faint blotch to backstrip panel, very good.

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.