Swallows and Amazons First paperback edition 1962

Puffin Books

The books included all the original Ransome drawings from the Cape hardback, but had a cover with line illustrations by Patricia McGrogan. This was the first and only paperback edition published in Ransome's lifetime.

The price was 5 shillings (modern currency 25 pence).

The title pages include the Altounyan dedication "To the six for whom it was written in exchange for a pair of slippers".



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