SIGNED WITH ORIGINAL SKETCH
Swallows and Amazons
Cape, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt titles in pictorial wraparound dustwrapper designed by Steven Spurrier. Signed on the half title by Ransome with a drawing of Swallow. Pictorial endpapers in map design and map frontispiece by Steven Spurrier. A near fine copy, boards a little faded as usual. Cape advertising flyer laid in. In a very good dustwrapper indeed, which though slightly dusty and rubbed at the spine ends, is a handsome example of this 1930 rarity, with no repair or restoration.
The first book in the Swallows and Amazons series, one of only 2000 copies printed, is very uncommon as a first edition, and notably rare signed.
Cape commissioned artist Steven Spurrier to illustrate Ransome's adventure story, but the author disliked the drawings so much that the book was published with only the dustwrapper, endpaper and frontispiece designs being used. Later editions were illustrated by Clifford Web and subsequently by the author himself.
Stock ID: 37390
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