Pigeon Post. [With Illustrations by the Author. Twenty-First Impression]. [Swallows and Amazons 6]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
by RANSOME Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape,, [1963]. 8vo., Twenty-First Impression, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (22 full-page) and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the sixth book in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series. Hammond A30 (recording the first edition of 1936).
Synopsis
Pigeon Post is the sixth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1936. It won the first Carnegie Medal awarded for children's literature. This book is one of the few Swallows and Amazons books that does not feature sailing. All the action takes place on and under the fells surrounding the Lake.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46926
- Title
- Pigeon Post. [With Illustrations by the Author. Twenty-First Impression]. [Swallows and Amazons 6]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- RANSOME Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape,
- Date Published
- [1963]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, ransome, arthur ransome, swallows and amazons
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