Cloth slightly sunned (Swallows & Amazons and Swallowdale), occasional foxing and browning, spine slightly leaning (Swallowdale), minor split to front hinge (Pigeon Post), otherwise very good. Bookplate to half-title (We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea) and ownership stamp to verso of front free endpaper (Great Northern?) An excellent and attractive set.

Maps drawn by Stephen Spurrier, illustrations to text by Clifford Webb and the author. Original green cloth, lettering to spines in gilt, illustrated endpapers. A musical version of the book was premiered by the National Theatre in 2010. A second adaptation was released in 2016 starring Andrew Scott and Harry Enfield. The first film adaptation of Swallows and Amazons was released in 1974 including Virginia McKenna in the cast. Hammond records that 'Swallows and Amazons sold slowly at first, taking two years to earns its advance of £100.' Nevertheless, in 1948 'the house journal of Jonathan Cape announced that the one millionth copy, of the total copies printed of the twelve books in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series, would soon be on sale'.

The first book was published in an edition of only 2,000 copies (compared with the last book which of which the first issue probably numbered 11,000 copies). Complete first edition sets of Ransome's Swallows and Amazons sailing adventures novels are rare. Professional repairs to the head and tail of wraps internally. Fading to the spine and extremities, as is common with this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. It is exceptionally scarce to have this work with the dustwrapper.?'Swallowdale' is a fantastic novel rich in sensual detail. It is the second novel in Ransome's famed 'Swallows and Amazons' series.?A truly exceptional copy of Ransome's famed children's adventure novel. The inscription is to Robert Cleveland-Stevens.? Possibly Captain Bobby Cleveland-Stevens of the Welsh Guards.?Webb illustrated the first two Swallows and Amazons books.?With the original exceptionally scarce unclipped dustwrapper in a fantastic condition.?The dustwrapper has been subject to some professional repairs, that are imperceptible externally.?This story follows the Walker siblings and Blackett sisters camping in the hills and moorland around a lake. Signed by the illustrator to the recto of front endpaper 'To Robbie from Clifford Webb Nov 1931'. Signed by the illustrator of this work, Clifford Webb. A fantastic first edition of Arthur Ransome's 'Swallowdale'.

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