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Swallows and Amazons - Complete Series
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Twelve volumes, the complete Swallows and Amazons series, 1930-1947, comprising: 'Swallows and Amazons', 1930, [6], 7-349pp, [1]; 'Swallowdale', 1931, [6], 7-453pp, [3]; 'Peter Duck', 1932, [6], 9-431pp, [1]; 'Winter Holiday', 1933, [6], 9-359pp, [1]; 'Coot Club', 1934, [6], 7-351pp, [1]; 'Pigeon Post', 1936, [6], 7-383pp, [1]; 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea', 1937, [6], 9-351pp, [1]; 'Secret Water', 1939, [6], 9-380pp; 'The Big Six', 1940, [6], 9-399pp, [1]; 'Missee Lee', 1941, [6], 9-335pp, [1]; 'The Picts and The Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All', 1943, [4], 5-302pp, [2] and 'Great Northern?', 1947, [6], 7-351pp, [1]. Uniformly bound in green morocco, raised bands, spines in six panels, vellum title label to second panel, author label to fourth, single line border to covers, inner edges with rope roll, a.e.g. Externally near fine. Internally generally bright and clean, one or two with previous owner's names. Original map endpapers (where issued) are bound in. Hammond A25, A26, A27, A28, A29, A30, A31, A32, A33, A34, A35 and A36 respectively. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001479
- Title
- Swallows and Amazons - Complete Series
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Ransome, Swallows and Amazons, Bookbindings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens and Illustrated; Library Sets;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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