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Published by Jonathan Cape, 1938 reprint. 14 X 19 cm., light blue cloth. "Good Plus" to "Very Good", no dustwrapper. With interesting associations. The first free endpaper bears the neat ownership signature of the artist and sculptress Barbara Collingwood as "Barbara March 1938." This book was bought-in by us recently from the estate of the church architect Janet Gnosspelius, of the elite student group at the Liverpool School of Architecture, also daughter of geologist & flying-boat designer Oscar Gnosspelius and sculptress Barbara Collingwood. Most members of the interrelated Collingwood and Gnosspelius families played inspirational parts in Arthur Ransome's writings. Janet modelled for the drawing of Nancy Blackett of the Swallows and Amazons books. 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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We have had lots of buying customers from Manchester and the midlandsn in the shop today. Cookery, history, literary criticism and Second World War have all gone well. Quite a bit of science has gone from the website too. The bargain ginnel has just been topped up with a number of history books. Tomorrow morning should see some activity there. ... Taken From Today's Home Page Jottings.