I dare say you will find Swallowdale and Trout Tarn some day, but I am not going to tell you where they are. Autograph card signed by Arthur Ransome, teasing the recipient about the locations of Swallowdale and Trout Tarn, and going on to reveal that Coniston yielded a few places: 'Thank you for your long and interesting letter. The book is kept on a matching brown drop-back box with gilt titles on the spine panel. The book is bound in full brown morocco with gilt titles on the spine and front cover decorations. In this book he also covers fishing books, fly fishing authors, and fishing companions. Arthur Ransome was an inquisitive angler who developed several effective fly patterns as well as an angler with eclectic tastes. Color frontispiece showing several salmon flies, including the Elver, which is dressed with the feathers from the Blue Vulturine Guineafowl. With an Elver Fly, conceived by Authur Ransome and dressed by Annie Douglas, on a size 8 up-eye salmon hook, mounted within an oval recess on the inside of the front cover. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A little rubbing to the joints and extremities. In the original publisher's cloth binding. An old Great Aunt is the antagonist of the novel.This was the second book in the 'Swallows and Amazons' series.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and illustrations throughout.Collated, complete.?Colour maps to the paste downs and endpapers.The twenty-third impression.

Signed by the author to the half title.Ink note to the verso of the front endpaper 'Elaine Morrell, given to her by the Author, Littlehampton, July 1951'.'Swallowdale' is a charming classic children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, following two sets siblings as they camp in the hills and moorland country around a lake. A superb signed reprint of the popular children's novel 'Swallowdale', an exciting tale following on from 'Swallows and Amazons'.

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