Winter Holiday (1st Edition, 3rd Impression, With Rare (4th Impression) Unclipped Dust Jacket)
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In this, the 4th novel of the "Swallows and Amazons" series, the third set of major characters the Ds - Dick and Dorothea Callum - are introduced. The series' usual emphasis on boats and sailing is largely absent, as the story is set in the winter. Instead, the children's activities focus on ice skating, signalling with semaphore and Morse code, and sledging. 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 series forms the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. Ransome 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 condition for its age, having benefited from the protection of a dust jacket, though this appear to be a 4th impression jacket, on a 3rd impression book. It has suffered considerable wear, being generally grubby and 'tired'-looking, with areas of loss around the bottom corners and at top & tail of the spine. The book itself, however, bound in green cloth with impressed title on the front and gilt title etc on the spine, shows almost no external signs of wear or use, apart from a small white label pasted beneath the title, bearing what may have been a personal catalogue number of a previous owner. Inside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; all pages clean and bright; no sign of foxing seen. Ex libris of previous owner pasted to blank page before the halftitle page.
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