We Didn't Mean to go to Sea
by RANSOME Arthur
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Australasian Publishing Company & Cape, 1949 1949 reprint but first edition thus, VG in green cloth a little sun faded at the edges where the light has crept under the DW edges and stolen away the colour, colour map end papers, 351pp with illustrations in the text. DUSTWRAPPER is unclipped and VG but has a split along the lower front fold which is archival tape repaired to the outside edge, light chipping to spine ends and corners, head of spine archival tape reinforced to the underside. blue and black & white designed DW.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News . In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian . He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post . He died in 1967.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001863
- Title
- We Didn't Mean to go to Sea
- Author
- RANSOME Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Australasian Publishing Company & Cape
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Swallows and Amazons British Childrens Adventure Fiction Twentieth Century Ransome
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDRENS YOUNG ADULT;
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