Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons series

Arthur Ransome,

Swallows and Amazons series,

12 vols., including: Swallows and Amazons, 23rd imp., remains of the bookplate of John Macinnes to dust jacket front panel, Jonathan Cape, 1946; Swallowdale, 21st imp., two ink signatures by Macinnes to upper panel of dust jacket, modern price sticker to rear panel, 1948; Peter Duck, 1942, 14th imp., two ink signatures by Macinnes to upper panel of dust jacket, price-clipped; Winter Holiday, 16th imp., 1946; Coot Club, 18th imp., signature of MacInnes to front free endpaper, his bookplate to half-title, 1958; Pigeon Post, 20th imp., two ink signatures by Macinnes to upper panel of dust jacket and one to title page, 1958; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, 22nd imp., price-clipped, 1958; Secret Water, late printing, ink signature by Macinnes to upper panel of dust jacket, price-clipped, 1962; The Big Six, 13th imp., one ink signature by Macinnes to upper panel of dust jacket, price-clipped, modern price sticker to rear panel, 1961; Missee Lee, 12th imp., ink drawing to rear panel, 1962; The Picts and the Martyrs, 2nd imp., ink signature to upper panel of dust jacket, modern price sticker to rear panel, 1944; Great Northern?, 5th imp., ink gift inscription from John MacInnes to his father on half-title, 1948; all in original cloth, some fading, dust jackets, the majority with some staining, short tears and minor loss (12)

***John MacInnes (1930-2019) was a Scottish Gaelic scholar and authority on Scottish Gaelic oral tradition.