The Big Six. [With Illustrations by the Author].
by RANSOME Arthur
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape,, [1940]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 22 full-page illustrations (including a map) and numerous smaller illustrations (all by the author) in the text, and endpaper maps in blue and black; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at joints and fold-ins, and with a short area worn to small holes at top of backstrip (not affecting lettering) and lower joint. Ninth novel in the Swallows & Amazons series. Hammond A33.
Synopsis
The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club. This book is more of a detective story as the Ds and Coot Club try to unravel a mystery that threatens the Death and Glories freedom to sail the river.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11565
- Title
- The Big Six. [With Illustrations by the Author].
- Author
- RANSOME Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape,
- Date Published
- [1940]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, childrens, ransome, swallows amazons, arthur ransome, children's, juvenilia, arthur ransome, big, six
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