The Big Six [signed]

Presentation copy, signed by the author. 400 pp. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine in colour illustrated jacket, price clipped; endpaper maps. Jacket slightly chipped at edges with stains to rear panel and spine. Light rubbing to board edges and joints. Internally clean. Owner's sticker to front pastedown. A presentation on the prelim to a niece of Sir Bertram Jerram - a British diplomat and ambassador - who the main presentation from Arthur Ransome addresses on the half title, along with the intriguing message "Thirty years after!"; Ransome was known to have been a spy in Estonia and Russia around 30 years before the date of the presentation in 1952, and they kept up a correspondence for years in which they discussed Estonia, so who knows. Illustrations throughout by the author.

Product Info

Publisher: Jonathan Cape 1948

Year: 1940

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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