The Blue Treacle
The Story of an Escape
Amazon Publications, 1993.
First edition. 8vo. Finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in half navy morocco over pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Hand written in ink on the front blank "This edition is limited to two copies". Marbled endpapers. Black and white photographic portrait frontis of Ransome and his daughter Tabitha. Black and white headpieces and tailpieces by Ransome, first published in Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. A fine copy.
Ransome wrote the story for his daughter Tabitha in 1914, making her the story's heroine. In 1926 Molly Hamilton, a friend of Ransome, endeavoured to persuade Cape to publish it, to no avail. It was finally issued in 1993 when Amazon Publications, an organisation devoted to printing works by and about Ransome, chose it to be their first major publication.
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