Pigeon Post (1st Edition, 4th Impression, With Rare, Unclipped Dust Jacket)
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This, the 6th of twelve books in the "Swallows and Amazons" series is the only one which does not feature sailing-related plots: boats appear only in passing, as a mode of transport. All the action takes place on and under the fells surrounding the Lake, as the characters attempt to discover gold in the Lake District hills. Arthur Michell Ransome CBE (1884-1967) was an English author and journalist, best known for the "Swallows and Amazons" series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The entire series remains in print, and forms the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected by MI5 of being a Soviet spy. Our book is in remarkably good general condition for its age, largely due to the protection afforded by its dust jacket, which has borne most of the wear over the years. It is grubby, badly torn at corners and top & tail of the spine, but the book itself has benefited, as its green cloth covers show almost no signs of external wear. Title is impressed on the front cover, and in gilt lettering on the spine, along with a small white label bearing what may have been a previous owner's personal catalogue number. Inside, the binding is firm with no loose pages - one slight weak point at pp.364-5; pages clean and bright; no foxing seen. There is a slight lean. Ex libris of previous owner pasted to blank page before the halftitle page.
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