Winter Holiday paperback reprint 1995

Godine (U.S.)

First published 1988. Known in the U.S. as "trade paperbacks", these volumes are as large as the hardback editions. Still available in the U.S.

1995 price $14.95

The title pages include the "Author's Note" claiming that the Swallows and Amazons story came solely from Ransome's own childhood. Full details of the first edition here.