Latest Updates - Arthur Ransome

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Comment by ppint.:

first published november 1939
second impression november 1939
third impression november 1939
fourth impression november 1939
fifth impression october 1941
sixth impression april 1942
seventh impression september 1942
eighth impression october 1943

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''secret water'' was quite evidently extremely popular ''from the gecko''°, but n.b. i've not checked how early in ww2 paper rationing began to affect the size of publishers' print-runs.

° - a beautiful malapropism quite irresistible, given how well the amazons provided for timothy'advent in anticipation of his arrival, in the light of captain flint's warning...

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Comment by ppint.:

jonathan cape & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, first edition

dedication: to the busk family

cover (d-j) art (my copy has long since lost its d-j)
endpapers map unsigned, uncredited
42 b+w interior illustrations; some small, some full-page including maps (? arthur ransome?)
cover (d-j) price
384pp. including 8pp. titles, indicia, b+w frontispiece, table-of-contents, table of illustrations etc, 4 blank end pp, bound with colour-printed map front & rear endpapers between dark green-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, decoration, author & publishers logo blocked in gold on spine, title blocked in gold on front cloth°

(° - this latter front cloth gold blocking dropped from some or all later impressions, title still impressed)