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Swallows and Amazons Set: Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn't Mean to go to Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missee Lee; The Picts and the Martyrs, or Not Welcome at All; and Great Northen?
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An 11 volumes set of Swallows and Amazon's adventures. Includes all titles in the series other than the opening volume, Swallows and Amazons. All early reprints (from 1951 t0 1955). All in green cloth boards with blind and gilt lettering front and spine. Coloured maps on endpapers. Each with a monochrome frontispiece and further black and white illustrations in text. 8vos. Cloth covers are a little rounded and rubbed at corners and spine tips. Text block edges have hint of toning and spotting. Internally all are neat, clean, bright and tight, barring a small brown rust mark on the front endpaper of Missie Lee; small faint date stamp on front free endpaper of Swallowdale. All in their original dust jacket, a little shelf worn and rubbed and bumped at edges, with minor crumbling at spine ends. Coot Club has a small nick in the lower edge and Missee Lee's dust jaclet has a few small nicks. All DJs price clipped and a tad faded. A classic children's adventure series which, according to literary critic Peter Hunt 'changed British literature, affected a whole generation's view of holidays, helped to create the national image of the English Lake District'. [Hunt, Peter, (1992), Approaching Arther Ransome].
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022730
- Title
- Swallows and Amazons Set: Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn't Mean to go to Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missee Lee; The Picts and the Martyrs, or Not Welcome at All; and Great Northen?
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Swallows and Amazons, Children's Adventure Stories, Arthur Ransome, Vintage Books
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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