The Hoofmarks of the Faun by Arthur Ransome (Creator) - 2012-08-01

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Martin Secker, Number Five John Street, Adelphi, [1911]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original brown cloth with printed paper title label on spine panel. 168 pp. Light scattered foxing, contemporary ink name on front free endpaper, cloth lightly bumped & with slight wear at edges, spine label slightly rubbed & chipped. A very good, sound copy, still quite attractive. ¶ Collects six early fantasy stories by the well-known author of the SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS series.: 'The Hoofmarks of the Faun'; 'The Footways of Dream'; 'Peter Swainson: A Criticism'; 'Rolf Sigurdon'; 'The Little Silver Snakes'; & 'The Aging Faun'.

London: Martin Secker, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Publisher. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine but for darkened spine, lightly worn extremities, and some marks to covers. Internally fine. From the library of Frederick Niven, and inscribed to him by Martin Secker. One of the more elusive Ransome titles..

London, Martin Secker, 1911. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black, with the dust jacket. Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) was a publisher and translator on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, the last lover of Lytton Strachey. Senhouse took over Ransome's publisher Martin Secker in 1935 when the firm was in receivership and with Frederic Warburg founded Secker & Warbug, noted for being the publisher of George Orwell's books from 1938. Hammond A12.