Swallowdale
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
8th book in the exciting Swallows and Amazons series. John, Susan, Roger and Titty discover a wonderful camp site while the Swallow is being repaired. Also more thrilling adventures with pirates Nancy and Peggy.
1940 Reprint of the 1931 first edition. Endpapers illustrated with coloured Chart. Full-page and In-Text illustrations. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. 453 p.pages, 690g, 8" tall.
Gift inscription on half-title page dated 1941. No other inscriptions.
1940 Reprint of the 1931 first edition. Endpapers illustrated with coloured Chart. Full-page and In-Text illustrations. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. 453 p.pages, 690g, 8" tall.
Gift inscription on half-title page dated 1941. No other inscriptions.
Synopsis
Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was published in 1931. In this book, camping in the hills and moorland country around Ransome's Lake in the North features much more prominently and there is less sailing. A significant new character, Maria Turner, the Blacketts' Great Aunt, is introduced. Ransome was living in the Lake District and he drew on his experiences and memories of encounters over many years with the local farming community.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19164
- Title
- Swallowdale
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's Classics/Action & Adventure/Sailing/Swallows and Amazons
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Classics; Children's Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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