Books with title We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 22nd Impression, Jonathan Cape 1958. 351pp. Frontispiece, publisher's title-page vignette, charming and profuse illustrations including 33 further full-page plates, in-text vignettes, coloured map endpapers. Textblock very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, firmly held in joints and hinges. In very slightly shaken bright gilt and blind embossed green cloth sun-faded to spine and bleached to lower leading corners [damp?], unaffected internally. We have many more Arthur Ransome books from the Swallows and Amazon series for sale bought from the same collection, please see our listings.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 351pp. Seventeenth impression. In blue pictorial dustwrapper; excellent condition but a little torn to top and bottom of spine. Bound in green cloth covers, title blind embossed to front and gilt embossed to spine, almost as new. Gorgeous colour illustration of a map to front and back endpapers, inscription free but a little foxed. Contents clean and feature 34 black line illustrations throughout the text. An excellent copy, well looked after by its previous owner.