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Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1933. Dark green cloth hardback in about "Fair Plus" to "Good" condition with a some little rubbing/knocks to corners. Overall a decent reading exemplar, but with interesting associations. Formerly the property of the sculptress Barbara (Crystal) Collingwood, with her ownership ink inscription in her married name, "Barbara Gnosspelius," This item came from the library of the church architect Janet Gnosspelius, daughter of the geologist Oscar Gnosspelius and Barbara Collingwood. Most members of the interrelated Collingwood and Gnosspelius families played inspirational parts in Arthur Ransome's writings. Arthur Ransome had once proposed to Barbara, without success, but he still dedicated Old Peter's Russian Tales (1916) to her.

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