Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly faded at the spine and there are some wrinkles to the publisher's laminate film on the dust jacket. The binding is firm. In excellent, clean condition throughout. No previous owner's names, inscriptions or other marks. Dust jacket not price clipped. A successor to Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales, published in 1916. Ransome started preparing a second collection of tales after the success of the first, but war reporting and other events got in the way and these tales remained unpublish... View More...
Hardback, lacks dust jacket. 1938 or later reprint of the 1938 edition; edition not stated. Additional note to Preface is dated 1938. Publisher's original cream cloth spine with grey paper covered sides - rubbed at the edges, exposing boards. Bruised and rubbed at the spine ends, with fraying to the cloth. Heavy dent to the top edges of both boards. A slight forwards lean. Top edge tinted green. Foxing spots to other outer closed textblock page edges and to prelims, with a few spots in the text. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Flat... View More...
Hardback, lacks dust jacket. Publication date not stated but this is a c. late 1940s edition printed in New York in compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials. Light brown cloth boards with titles in red. Minor bruising to spine ends. The binding is firm and inner hinges are very good. A brief gift inscription in ink on the front endpaper, dated 1947. Mitrokhin's illustrations in this edition have been reproduced in black and white, rather than the colour plates in earlier editions. Pages are in lovely clean condition throughout; appears bar... View More...
