Secret Water

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Red Fox (Random House)* Binding and cover condition: Soft card, colour illustration to covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners adhesive address label to inside front cover. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawn map to frontis and numerous drawings within text. (Facsimiles of the original drawings from the first hardback editions.)* Pages: 422 pp. text. xii pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- ?You?ll start with a blank map, that doesn?t do more than show roughly what?s water and what isn?t. You?ll have your tents, stores, everything we?d got ready. You?ll be just a wee bit better off than Columbus. But you?ll be marooned, fair and square.? John and the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands around Pin Mill while living on the biggest one. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk in the islands ? and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of attack??* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++. See also Peter Duck, & Swallows & Amazons for ever! and other titles by Ransome in the same edition from the same seller.*