Swallows & Amazons
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and was first published in 1930. It is set in the Lake District between the two World Wars. At the time Ransome had been working as a journalist with the Manchester Guardian, but decided to become a full-time author rather than go abroad as a foreign correspondent. He continued to write part-time for the press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68426
- Title
- Swallows & Amazons
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Illustrator
- Ransome, Arthur & Blackett, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Price Clipped
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...