Swallows and Amazons.

Arthur Ransome (1884 -1967) wrote on many subjects, including reporting to the British Government on the Russian Revolution. However, he is best known for this series of children's books (of which this is the first and most famous), which follows 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)

First illustrated edition, eleventh impression; 8vo (201 x 145 mm); twenty-eight black and white illustrations and vignettes, two maps, map endpapers in black, white, blue and green, pages are crisp and clean; publisher's blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, unclipped dust jacket, closed tears to underside of dust-jacket, minor loss to extremities of spine and soiling to surface area of dust jacket, otherwise very good; 350pp, [1].