COOT CLUB. **

UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,4th imp. [Originally and first published,1934.] VG+. No owner inscrptn. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with blind blocked title to top edge of front board,bright,crisp,gilt blocked letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears,splits or fraying present,and clean 3-colour (b/w +blue) map illustrated endpapers - Norfolk Broads, Northern Rivers and Norfolk Broads; Southern Rivers to front+rear sets respectively,both hinges solid and sound - without any splits,tears or cracking.Top edges lightly toned from slight dust-soiling,with minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges slightly brighter and also with faint,minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting, bottom page edges' deckled (untrimmed); contents bright,tight,clean - text body virtually foxing-free,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Tiny pin-prick to lower edges of approx pp237-280 but subject to trimmed/untrimmed size of each page. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,4th imp,7-351pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,Books One + Two comprising XV (15) and XIV (14) chapters respectively - 29 chapters in total,a Postscript [unpaginated],23 full-page b/w illus by author includes frntis and a map,some chapter tailpiece illustrations; plus [unpaginated] mildly foxed half-title,b/w illus frntis with mild foxing to its verso, title page with b/w vignette illustration,a dedication with blank reverse, individual Book separator pages each with b/w line illustration,and each with advisory note on use of relevant North,South maps and Postscript as last page.
Coot Club is the fifth book of Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons' series of children's books, originally published from 1934 onwards.
An uncommonly presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well,particularly without any dw/dj and unusually,without the usual major discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a book of this age.
The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the 'Swallows' and 'Amazons' when they return to the Lake District later that year.Along with a cast of new characters,Dick and Dorothea explore the North and South Broads and become 'able seamen'.
'Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!'Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail.They couldn't hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon.But Tom is in a spot of trouble. After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of his beloved coots,Tom set the motorcruiser adrift.
Now the enemy have offered a bounty on his head. Can they save the birds' nest from almost certain destruction? Will they avoid being caught by the awful Hullabaloos? Only some brave friends and quick thinking stands between them and disaster.
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