{"product_id":"swallows-amazons-e3wvte2o","title":"Swallows and Amazons.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unusually nice copy of the first edition, not commonly found in the dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beloved children’s classic, Ransome sets the first instalment of his children’s adventure tales in the Lake District. The story and setting is loosely based around a summer holiday he had spent teaching some friend’s children how to sail. Celebrated as a story centring around children’s imagination and play; as one critic at the time wrote: “the book is the very stuff of play. It is make-believe such as all children have indulged in: even children who have not been so fortunate as to have a lake and a boat and an island but only a backyard amongst the semis of Suburbia.” (Malcolm Muggeridge, \u003cem\u003eThe Manchester Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, July 1930).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverall in very good condition. Dust jacket price clipped; spine panel age toned; some wear, creasing and age toning to extremities of jacket, with some damp-staining to jacket rear panel, only visible on the reverse. The cloth is somewhat faded to the front and rear board, with damp-staining to the rear board corresponding with the same on the rear panel of the jacket. Ever so slight offsetting to the cartographic endpapers, occasional light spotting internally otherwise a clean text-block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68040426750261,"sku":"263916","price":8000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/263916_02.jpg?v=1793917503","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/swallows-amazons-e3wvte2o","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}