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Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
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About This Item
RANSOME, Arthur. Swallows and Amazons. Illustrated by Helene Carter. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1931. 8vo, 343pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black. Two-color illustrated map endpapers; two-color full-page map, two-color illustrated title page, and illustrated chapter-headings and tails. Spine and edges a tad sunned, spine ends a bit rubbed, slightest foxing to edges (but not extending internally), else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine a bit sunned, a few short, closed tears at spine ends). Scarce, especially in such enviable condition!
First US edition. The first of Arthur Ransome's 12 adventure novels about a group of young children and their escapades around the Lake District of Northern England. The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District and are sailing a borrowed catboat named "Swallow," when they meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail the boat, "Amazon." What ensues is an imaginative adventure with fireworks, houseboat burglars, and, of course, sailing! The basis for two films, including the 2016 film starring Andrew Scott.
Synopsis
Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and was first published in 1930. It is set in the Lake District between the two World Wars. At the time Ransome had been working as a journalist with the Manchester Guardian, but decided to become a full-time author rather than go abroad as a foreign correspondent. He continued to write part-time for the press.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1112032
- Title
- Swallows and Amazons
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Illustrator
- Helene Carter
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth pictorially stamped in black
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US edition
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 343pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Books of Wonder is NYC's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore, specializing in both new and old books. Established in 1980, Books of Wonder has a store in the Flatiron/Chelsea area of Manhattan.
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