By Arthur Ransome
London   Jonathan Cape
8" by 5.5" 350pp.
An early reprint of this acclaimed illustrated children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome.
By Arthur Ransome

1936 Swallows and Amazons

London   Jonathan Cape
8" by 5.5" 350pp.
An early reprint of this acclaimed illustrated children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome.
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: 0.75kgs / : 757A47

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Description

An Important Work, Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A 1936 reprint of the illustrated edition, firstly published in 1931 as stated. A very popular children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District. It is the first book in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series, where the reader is introduced to the four main characters, their mother, and their baby sister as well as others. This novel was listed number 57 on the BBC survey The Big Read in 2003, where the British public voted to elect the nation's most beloved novel.

Ransome was inspired by a time when he taught his friends' children how to sail: Ransome and his friend, Ernest Altounyan, brought two dinghis named Amazon and Swallows, and while Ransome got rid of his dinghy, Swallows stayed within the Altounyan family for generations, and is now displayed in the Ruskin Museum in northern England. 

Thoroughly illustrated.

Condition

In the original publisher's green cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to front board and spine. Externally smart, with minor shelfwear and slight bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Minor faint handling marks to spine and boards. Minor rubbing to rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With frontispiece and twenty-seven illustrations, as well as two maps to endpapers.

Very Good

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