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Author:	Arthur Ransome
Title:	Secret Water
Publisher:	Jonathan Cape
Country:	UK
Date:	Nov 1939
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Hobbies, Transport
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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ppint. 30th Jan 2024		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 ... ... ... ... ''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...



ppint. 30th Jan 2024		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)

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