Lot 183
Ransome (Arthur) Swallows & Amazons, second (first illustrated) edition, presentation copy from the illustrator, 1931.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Ransome (Arthur) Swallows & Amazons, second (first illustrated) edition, presentation copy from the illustrator, illustrations by Clifford Webb, pictorial map endpapers, original cloth, covers sunned and slightly mottled, unclipped dust-jacket a little rubbed and soiled (mainly to spine and rear panel) and with some short tears, 8vo, 1931.
⁂ The inscription "To Robbie with many thanks Clifford Webb. Oct. 1931" is to Robert Cleveland-Stevens (1920-2019). Ransome did not like the illustrations produced by Steven Spurrier for Swallows & Amazons and therefore they were not used in the first edition of 1930 apart from the maps on the endpaper and the dust-jacket. For this second edition, a year later, Ransome used Webb's illustrations in the book and on the jacket but retained Spurrier's maps.
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Description
Ransome (Arthur) Swallows & Amazons, second (first illustrated) edition, presentation copy from the illustrator, illustrations by Clifford Webb, pictorial map endpapers, original cloth, covers sunned and slightly mottled, unclipped dust-jacket a little rubbed and soiled (mainly to spine and rear panel) and with some short tears, 8vo, 1931.
⁂ The inscription "To Robbie with many thanks Clifford Webb. Oct. 1931" is to Robert Cleveland-Stevens (1920-2019). Ransome did not like the illustrations produced by Steven Spurrier for Swallows & Amazons and therefore they were not used in the first edition of 1930 apart from the maps on the endpaper and the dust-jacket. For this second edition, a year later, Ransome used Webb's illustrations in the book and on the jacket but retained Spurrier's maps.
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