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RANSOME, Arthur (1884-1967).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION. 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 Amazons' boating / outdoor adventure series, set around the waterways of the Norfolk Broads. Item #56084

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