Swallows and Amazons, 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 and Great Northern? by Ransome, Arthur - 1956

Red Fox, 2018-01-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Red Fox, 2017. Paperback. New. 10.24x7.87x5.28 inches.

London; Jonathan Cape, 2005., 2005. Hard Cover. Reprint. Crown octavo, 6 vols. (pp. 374, [2]; 453, [1]; 431, [1]; 383, [1]; 351, [1]; 305, [1]. Bound in moss green cloth, blind cover titles, gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers; with unclipped illustrated publishers' dust-jackets, housed in matching moss green slipcase. Near Fine. Excellent set of Ransome's much loved adventure series celebrating friendship, exploration and imagination. With charming illustrated dust-jackets illustrated by Ransome and Nancy Blackett. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

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… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. Unused set of 12 Arthur Ransome titles. Covers and contents clean andcrisp with no inscriptions. Collection comprises Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts and the Martyrs, Great Northern?, Winter Holiday. . Reprint. Green Cloth. Mint/Mint. 5.5" x 8.0". Hardback.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1930-47. A rare complete set of this classic children's series First editions, first impressions, all in the dust jackets. Together, these works "changed British children's literature, affected a whole generation's view of holidays, helped to create the national image of the English Lake District, and added Arthur Ransome's name to the select list of classic British children's authors" (Hunt, p. 13). The debut title, consisting of 2,000 copies only, "sold slowly at first, taking two years to earn its advance of £100". By 1948, "the house journal of Jonathan Cape announced that the one millionth copy, of the total copies printed of the twelve books in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series, would soon be on sale" (Hammond). The series has inspired many adaptations, including the 1963 BBC children's series, the 1974 film starring Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser, and the 2016 film starring Andrew Scott and Harry Enfield. In 2010, a musical version of the first book premiered at… Read More