Swallows Amazons (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wonderful detail on the eps maps. Additional b/w illustrations in text. (illustrator). sm 8 vo, 335 pp. Eighth impression, of first edition. 1949. Green cloth, embossed title front cover, and gilt title on spine. No jacket. Decorated eps: maps of Miss Lee's Islands. Classical adventure stories for children. Previous owner's name light in pencil on half-title. Otherwise clean interior, no marks, no damage. Spine has slight roll, about an 1/8". Covers are a little faded, base of spine is darkened by something but I don't know what. See photos.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 16 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First USA edition. Illustrated by Helene Carter. Pictorial end papers. No dw. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Frontispiece map drawn by Steven Spurrier [mis-spelt Stephen on the title-page]. First Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 30 mm]. 349, [1] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light brown morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border extending across the smooth spine with the points of the compass, across the centre a series of gilt gouges and blue, black and yellow fillets, following the pattern of the endleaves, with the "Swallows and Amazons For Ever" block and date on the front, the spine lettered in gilt, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt fillet, the turn-ins with a gilt roll, multicoloured chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in, gilt edges. [4139] London: Jonathan Cape. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith,1930 [With] Swallows & Amazons. Frontispiece, 27 plates and vignette tail-pieces by Clifford Webb and a map by Steven Spurrier. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 36 mm]. 349, [1] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light blue morocco to match above but with a different pattern of gilt, black and red gouges and fillets, following the pattern of the chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931 [And] Swallows & Amazons. Frontispiece, 23 full-page illustrations and vignette tail-pieces by Arthur Ransome, with help from Miss Nancy Blackett and a map by Steven Spurrier. First Ransome Illustrated Edition. 8vo. [201 x 135 x 33 mm]. 375pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in light green morocco to match the above but with a different pattern of gilt, green and blue gouges, following the pattern of the chiyogami endleaves, double-page coloured map endleaves bound in. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938 With contemporary ink signature on recto of the frontispiece. The three volumes are housed together in a slipcase lined with felt and covered in lichen cloth with a black morocco opening and black ribbon.