complete set - signed by the author in 4 vols
RANSOM, Arthur.
[The Swallows and Amazons Series]. Swallows and Amazons; Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missie Lee; The Picts and the Martyrs; Great Northern?
London, Jonathan Cape, 1936-1948.
Arthur Ransome (1884 -1967) wrote on many subjects, including reporting to the British Government on the Russian Revolution. However, he is most famous for this series of children's books, which follow a number of resourceful boys and girls as they sail, camp, and have adventures, both real and imaginary. In these, Ransome celebrated the outdoor activities he loved and the places in England, especially the Lake District, dearest to his heart. The sixth book in the series, Pigeon Post (1936), won the first Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature; however, its successor, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937), is widely considered Ransome's masterpiece. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Mixed editions, signed by the author in 4 vols; 12 vols, 8vo; all illustrated, map endpapers in colour, large childish ownership inscriptions, erased ownership signatures to a few vols, scattered foxing, one illustration in Swallowdale coming loose but present; publisher's green cloth, titles to spines gilt, titles to upper covers in gilt to first 2 vols, else in blind, cloth rubbed and marked and faded to varying degrees, some spotting to edges; a well-read set.
Stock code 115293
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[The Swallows and Amazons Series].
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
2003
The first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a near-fine copy in the original dust-jacket
£250.00
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
Now We Are Six.
1927.
A handsome first edition of Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
£350.00
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]; TENNIEL, John (illustrator).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [with] Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.
1885.
A handsomely illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
£1,500.00
GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illustrator)
The Wind in the Willows.
1931.
A charming copy of the perennial children's classic, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by E.H. Shepard
£575.00
