Racundra's First Cruise
Allen & Unwin, 1923.
First edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles in a facsimile dustwrapper. Illustrated with charts and photographs. A good copy, with a partially abraded subscription library sticker to the front pastedown.
Ransome's account of building his first yacht, Racundra and his journey between Latvia and Finland. "Racundra was launched, unfinished, in July 1922, and departed on her maiden cruise on 20 August. Ransome kept a detailed logbook of the cruise. With encouragement from both his old mentor, W.G. Collingwood, and his publisher, Stanley Unwin, Ransome turned his log book into a manuscript for Racundra's First Cruise over the winter of 1922 23." (Arthur Ransome Trust) By the author of the Swallows and Amazons books.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of John Cowen, Ransome collector and scholar.
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