We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea by Ransome, Arthur

Jonathan Cape, 1987-12-27. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?’The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this y

Chatto & Windus, 1984. Hardcover. New. reissue edition. 352 pages. 7.91x5.59x1.22 inches.

Hardback. New. 'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?'The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked Swallows.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. Book. Good. Hardback. Seventh Impressioin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The seventh in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels. Arthur Ransome based these stories on the family of Ernest Altounyan, the poet friend of T E Lawrence. Here we have a seventh impression with no d/w. Bound in green cloth as issued. 351pp. Previous owners name to fep dated 1940.

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1998. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Ransome, Arthur. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Green boards, gilt title to spine and blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers, b/w text illustrations. Spine very slightly bumped. Rear panel of wrapper is slightly grubby, slight rubbing to wrapper edges.

London .UK: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Book. Illus. by Arthur Ransome. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is a record of an uncovenanted voyage, which ended in Holland, of rain and wind, the darkness and the wild water, the escapes from buoys and from ships crossing in the night, the courage and resource of the children. The boards, text block and dust jacket are all square, tight and clean. This book are photographed as proof against in-transit damage.