The Big Six

by Arthur Ransome

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. Children's adventure FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 20 x 14cm , pp.399 1 . With 23 full-page illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Colour-illustrated map of the Norfolk Broads to endpapers. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Light wear to cloth with some marks and a little toning. Very good. The ninth in the classic 'Swallows and

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