- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Boscolla Books, Falmouth, United KingdomBoscolla Books
AbeBooks seller since September 5, 2019
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 60.50
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
'Secret Water' is the 8th in the series of Arthur Ransome's popular 'Swallows and Amazons' books, featuring children on holiday mostly in the Lake District and Norfolk Broads. It is a sequel to 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea' (1937) and like that book is set on Hamford Water, Essex. Illustrated by the author. Published Nov 1939, this copy is a 1st edition (2nd impression, which must have been simultaneous with the 1st impression since that was published on 28 Nov). Hardback with original unclipped (7s 6d) dust jacket. Cover in green cloth, gold spine titles, good condition. Binding firm. Text (380 pp) very good. Coloured illustrated endpapers. Name of former owner written on blank flyleaf. Dust jacket torn on back, small tears at top & bottom of spine & at corners, spine discoloured.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1610736121000
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Secret Water
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Publication year
- 1939
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Boscolla Books
Falmouth, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since September 5, 2019
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | US$ 40.12 | US$ 44.33 |
Payment methods
Store description
Rare, unusual and out-of-print books, including children's, art and art history, natural history, vintage medical textbooks, classic fiction.
Specialty
Children's including vintage annuals, art and art history, natural history, vintage medical textbooks, early 20th C. gardening books, classic fictionSeller's business information
Boscolla Books
United Kingdom