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          • Dickens, Charles
          • Dicks, Terrence
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          • Eliot, T. S.
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          • Jansson, Tove
          • Johns, Captain W. E.
          • Khayyam, Omar
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          • Le Cain, Errol
          • Le Guin, Ursula
          • Lear, Edward
          • Milne, A.A
          • Nieuwenhuys, Jan
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          • Peake, Mervyn
          • Perrault, Charles
          • Poe, Edgar Alan
          • Potter, Beatrix
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          • Robinson, W. Heath.
          • Rowling, J.K
          • Salten, Felix
          • Schulz, Charles M.
          • Seuss, Dr.
          • Shakespeare, William
          • Stevenson, Robert Louis
          • Swinburne, Algernon Charles
          • Tourtel, Mary
          • Travers, P.L.
          • Trelleck
          • Verstegan, Richard
          • Wagner, Richard
          • Whitaker, David
          • Wilde, Oscar
          • Wodehouse, P.G
        • Beatrix Potter
        • Disney
        • First Editions
        • Harry Potter
        • Illustrated
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          • Ardizzone, Edward
          • Attwell, Mabel Lucie
          • Baynes, Pauline
          • Bestall, Alfred
          • Blake, Quentin
          • Blake, Sir Peter
          • Briggs, Raymond
          • Brisley, Nina K
          • Brooke, L Leslie
          • Crane, Walter
          • Cruikshank, George
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          • McGavin, Hilda
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      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons
      Swallows and Amazons

      Swallows and Amazons

      £ 800.00
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      Ransome, Arthur
      Publisher's original blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine/front board and publisher's motif blind stamped on rear bd
      8vo, 23.5cm
      Endpaper maps by Stephen [sic] Spurrier
      350pp
      London
      1930
      Jonathan Cape
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      Description:

      First edition, scarce, one of only 2000 copies. A VG copy in publisher's faded fugitive blue cloth binding, without the dust wrapper. The text block is slightly foxed, toned and dusty, with a bookplate neatly written name to the front endpaper. An attractive example of the rare true first edition of the first title in Ransome's famous series.




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