The Picts and The Martyrs

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 8vo. b/w illustrations, pictorial end papers. Dust jacket very good, complete, with a little rubbing/wear to edges, spine very slightly faded, not price-clipped (8s 6d), now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Green cloth binding very good and bright. Contents clean and tight, small neat inscription… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.304, with illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers in colour, illustrated dust-wrapper correctly priced at 8/6. A lovely clean copy of the book; jacket with some chips, old tape to reverse side, spine age-toned; very good. The eleventh and penultimate finished novel in the… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, London, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 302pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in blind at the upper board. With three-colour map-illustrated endpapers and various illustrations by the author. The cloth very lightly marked in places, and the backstrip ends and one corner tip gently bruised. A very… Read more about this item

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1943. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Ransome, Arthur. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Pale grease stain to lower edge of spine &… Read more about this item

UK: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Bound in the publishers emerald green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine. The 302 pages remain in fresh, clean condition with one neat gift inscription to verso of front endpaper. Gilt title lettering is sharp and legible. Double matching illustrated endpapers of colour maps to front and rear of book are in very nice condition… Read more about this item

London: Cape, 1941. A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape in 1941. A near fine book without inscriptions. One neat bookplate. Some wear to the extremities. One neat gift inscription. In the unclipped very good dust wrapper. Some browning to the spine and light chipping to the spine tips and to the corners. The eleventh in the… Read more about this item

Pufin Books 1986.. 1986. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 347pp. b/w illus. Good+, page edges toned, spine slightly slanted. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Book. Illus. by Ransome, Arthur. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good first edition of this title in the Swallows and Amazons sequence of novels. As is well documented Ransome based the family on the Altounyans, friends of T. E Lawrence. Bound in original green cloth.303pp. Map endpapers.… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with neat name and gift inscription on front endpaper verso, in an unclipped worn dustjacket, spine tanned with loss at both ends and minor loss at foldovers. +304 pages, illustrations in the text by the author .

London: Jonathan Cape 1943. 8vo. First Edition. 303 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; blue and green coloured map endpapers. Minor marks to boards and slight chip to head of spine. Internally clean. No owner's names. Illustrated in black and white line drawings throughout. The eleventh book in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series, 'The Picts and the Martyrs'… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Book. Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: No dustjacket. Printed to War Economy Standard. Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and blindstamped on front cover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to spine and cover corners. Slight skewing to spine. Binding sound, text… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 8" by 5.5". Arthur Ransome. A smart first edition of the eleventh book in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated throughout with mapped endpapers. The eleventh novel in the Swallows and… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape LTD, 1943. Hardback. First edition, 1943. Good condition, green cloth with gold lettering to spine. Some age-related wear & tear. The binding is sound with clear text and illustrations. No dust jacket. Published: Jonathan Cape LTD, 1943

New York: Macmillan, 1943. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Ransome, Arthur. 1st ptg., 8vo, full green cloth, illustrated by the author in line with map endpapers, a Swallows and Amazons tale involving a visit from Dick and Dorothea that overlaps with one from a difficult Great-Aunt. Corners lightly bumped else near fine in chipped and darkened but not price-clipped dj.… Read more about this item

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1943. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Ransome, Arthur. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners are bumped. Some marks to covers. Book leans slightly… Read more about this item

RANSOME, Arthur. The Picts and the Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All. London: Jonathan Cape [1943]. 8vo, 304pp. Dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt and cover in blind. Color pictorial map endpapers; 20 full-page b&w illustrations. Spine ends a tad rubbed, lower rear corner gently bumped, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light… Read more about this item

Sydney: Australasian Printing Co., 1949 Green cloth titled in black on spine, endpaper maps, b&w frontis and illstns by the author. Faded at spine, wear to spine ends, light foxing in foredges, small blacked-out gift inscription on blank fly.

London and Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1944 An interesting copy of the 2nd impression of The Picts and the Martyrs in good wrapper. The book was produced to War Economy Standards and the wrapper is double-printed - Cape re-used a wrapper from Duff Cooper's book on world war II which was published in 1939. In addition this copy was given as… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.304, with illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers in colour, illustrated dust-wrapper correctly priced at 8/6. A lovely clean copy of the book with discreet owner name to half title, in a lightly worn dust-wrapper. A bright copy. The eleventh and penultimate finished novel… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape... London and at Toronto, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 302, [2] p. : ill.. ; 8 vo. Notes; With illustrations by the author. Subject; Children's stories.