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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.

Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. It was published in 1931 and is set in the Lake District, following the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children during their summer holiday.