SWALLOWDALE BY ARTHUR RANSOME 1931 FIRST EDITION

[RANSOME, ARTHUR]. Swallowdale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (20.5cm x 14cm x 3.5cm), pp. 453. English text, with illustrations throughout by Clifford Webb. Bound in publisher's original cloth, pictorial map endpapers, half-title, frontispiece, title-page vignette, advertisement leaf inserted to rear. Printed in Great Britain by J. and J. Gray, Edinburgh. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Covers somewhat variously faded. Interior largely well-preserved with some light spotting to fore edge and endpapers. Previous owner name neatly inked to half-title page. Lacking the dust jacket. Scarce.