Ransome, Arthur

Secret water.

Jonathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription dated 1939 on half title page, in an unclipped dustjacket which is worn at the spine, chipped at the edges, has minor loss at spine ends and foldovers and a repaired tear/crease at bottom corner of front cover. 380 pages, illustrations in the text, map endpapers. Good in Fair dust jacket.

Aucott & ThomasProfessional seller

Book number: 67818

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Swallows & Amazons Children's adventure stories Sailing

RANSOME Arthur

Secret Water. [Swallows and Amazons .] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Jonathan Cape,, [1939]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper map; green cloth,upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, copy. Eighth novel in the Swallows and Amazons series. Hammond A32.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46177

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, ransome, arthur ransome, swallows and amazons

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water

Cape, 1943. 8th. Hardback. Ransome, Arthur. Dark green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to edges of covers. Pages tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 113550

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: Sailing

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water

Cape, 1943. 8th. Hardback. Ransome, Arthur. Octavo. Dark green cloth-covered boards. Blind embossed lettering on covers. Gilt lettering on spine. 380 pages. Dustwrapper in poor condition: Much of back the panel, spine strip, and bottom of front panel missing. Remainder has been pasted onto brown paper base. Covers have light wear at spine ends. Name stamped on front endpaper. Contents clean and unmarked. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 104303

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: Sailing

RANSOME, Arthur

Secret Water

London, Jonathan Cape, 1939. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket 1st ed.. 1st edition, 1st printing. Spine slightly bumped; dust jacket spine browned with minor loss at foot. Dust jacket not price-clipped, & protected in removable clear film. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_18046_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS046259I

RANSOME, Arthur

Secret water

Jonathan Cape, 1953. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket Reprint. 1953 reprint with B&W illustrations, tightly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and title blind-stamped to front; light wear to bottom of cover edges. Dust jacket price-clipped and protected by removable clear film; wear, tear and small losses to edges and corners; some discolouration, especially to spine and back panel; light foxing to back flap. Otherwise, a good, clean copy. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_84731_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS306781I

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water

Jonathan Cape. 1984, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0224606387) Hardcover. Book, [Swallows And Amazons # 8] Secret Water was published in 1939] " This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. It starts only a few days after We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea ends.It brings the Swallows and the Amazons together and introduces a new group of characters, the Eels and the Mastodon. Ransome used to sail to Hamford Water, an area of tidal salt marshes and low-lying islands, in his yacht Nancy Blackett. He set the book here to offer his characters new opportunities to explore and make maps in a different landscape. 376p.illus. maps illus [B & W] map. Coloured sea charts on end papers.Donor inscription n half-title, esle fine. Spine of DJ slightly tanned. Fine/Near Fine.

Kalamos BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 045277

Keywords: 0224606387 Childens Books Youth Fction Hamford Water, Essex Swallows & Amazons

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water

Jonathan Cape, 1991. Revised. Hardback. Ransome, Arthur. With dustwrapper. Dark green covers. Gilt lettering on spine. Pages slightly tanned. Very Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 116134

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: Sailing

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water Swallows and Amazons # 8

England, Vintage. 2014. (ISBN: 0140304134). Mass Market Paperback. Ill.: Arthur Ransome. Book, Spine uncreased, a few nicks at head of spine. Very Good.

Caerwen BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 043979

Keywords: 0140304134 Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome

Secret Water

London and Toronto, Jonathan Cape, 1939. Cloth. An exciting children's adventure tale, the eighth in the popular 'Swallows and Amazons' series by Arthur Ransome. Set during the interwar period, this series of adventure novels follow groups of children exploring the nature of England during their school holidays. Many feature sailing, and the works popularised adventure holidays across places such as the Lake District. It consisted of twelve novels, beginning with 'Swallows and Amazons&apos.Arthur Ransome was an English author best known for this children's series, detailing the adventure holidays of children set in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads.This work is the eighth in the series.A first edition, third impression, published in the same year as the first, 1939. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart, with some edgewear. Dust wrapper has loss to the tail of the spine, which is a little sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Arthur Ransome. Very Good Indeed/Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 787R26

Catalogue: Children's Literature

Keywords: Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Secret Water Children's Literature Swallows and Amazons Children's Adventure Fiction Arthur Ransome

RANSOME, ARTHUR

Secret Water

Puffin, 1987. Paperback. Ransome, Arthur. Pages slightly tanned. Very Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 116895

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: Sailing

RANSOME Arthur

Signalling from Mars. The Letters of Arthur Ransome. Edited and introduced by Hugh Brogan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jonathan Cape,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, illustrations and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hammond A45

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 22701

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern firsts, arthur ransome, arthur ransome, modern first editions, signalling, from, mars

ARTHUR RANSOME

Signed Postcard from the Hotel Continental, Petrograd [Russia].

1916. Autographed postcard, signed and dated. Addressed to F.J. Hillier at the Daily News in London, Ransome asks to be sent The Star as well as the Daily News. Ransome went to Russia in 1913, probably to escape his first wife and daughter, initially to study Russian folklore, but after the start of the war he became foreign correspondent for the radical Daily News, covering the Eastern Front, later the Bolshevik Revolution. He was friendly with the Bolsheviks and eventually married Trotsky's personal secretary.

Michael S. Kemp - BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 45856

RANSOME, Arthur

The soldier & death: a Russian folk tale told in English

Jonathan Cape, 1945. Used - Good. Good stapled paperback . Reprint (1st published 1920). Small 28pp paperback. Staples rusty Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_17073_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS241542I

Arthur Ransome

The Soldier and Death

London, Printed for the Author; John G Wilson; Westminster Press, 1920. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound copy of this first Arthur Ransome translation of this Russian folk tale. With the book label of Charles Ballantyne of Yarrow to the front pastedown. An uncommon work. Former owner's pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper 'bound by John P Gray & Son Ltd. Cambridge July 1967&apos. Former owner's inscription to the recto of rear endpaper in pencil. With the original wraps bound in.  Retaining the colophon leaf which explains this work was printed for the Author at the Westminster Pres, London. Ransome is known to have referred to this short story as 'my favourite of all Russian tales&apos. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with occasional light spots to pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 789L10

Catalogue: World Literature

Keywords: Ballantyne Folk Tale Scarce Folk Tale None