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The Picts and the Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at all.

RANSOME, Arthur (1884-1967).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.304, with illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers in colour, illustrated dust-wrapper correctly priced at 8/6. A lovely clean copy of the book; jacket with some chips, old tape to reverse side, spine age-toned; very good. The eleventh and penultimate finished novel in the classic 'Swallows and Amazons' boating / outdoor adventure series, set around the waterways of the Lake District. Item #49188

Price: £120.00

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