Swallows and Amazons

376pp. Coloured maps to endpapers. 80th Anniversary edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine (boards clean and crisp, slight wear at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring small nick to upper corner of rear endpaper. In its original bright and crisp illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, gently rubbed at base of spine). Dust jacket now protected in non-adhesive, archival quality mylar wrap. The Sunday Times' list of 99 Best Children's Books described Ransome as a master story teller sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests.