Signalling From Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome

Hugh Brogan - FIRST EDITION WITH RANSOME LAKELAND MAP

ISBN 10: 0224042610 / ISBN 13: 9780224042611

Editore: Jonathan Cape, 1997

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First edition hardback, in a slightly scruffy but unclipped and undamaged jacket, with the (often missing) folded map at the back. It has been used, but the signs are gentle. Slight foxing to the leading edge of the text block. A very presentable and collectable copy of an uncommon book, especially so with the Lakeland Map as a loose enclosure.

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• Titolo: Signalling From Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome
• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224042610
• ISBN 13: 9780224042611
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition.
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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"The appeal of this hugely enjoyable book lays far beyond that unusually acsribed to volumes of letters - it is a `must' for every singl member of the very lively and active Arthur Ransome Society (now numbering 1, 800) and it will be a revelation to millions more who have grown up in the last 65 years with `Swallows and Amazons'." "Hugh Brogan writes in his Introduction- `Ransome in large part lived through his correspondence. He wrote letters as easily as we make phone calls (He did not possess a telephone until he was in his fifties). Their language is still vital with his character. Hundreds survive and add up to a literary achievement that deserves to be put in print as much as his stories for children. We seem to come especially close to the man writing. . . and because of the letters'spontaneity, I have let them compose themselves into a portrait of the writer in all his boyisness, his energy, his intellegence, his geniality (and his fretfulness)and the immense variety of his skills and interests'. Brogan says he has `tried to be as light-hearted an editor as possible producing `a reader-friendly selection rather than a definitive edition of documents'. He begins with Ransome in St Petersburg at the start of the Great War in 1914, and includes a breif commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his correspondance."

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The appeal of this hugely enjoyable book lays far beyond that unusually acsribed to volumes of letters - it is a `must' for every singl member of the very lively and active Arthur Ransome Society (now numbering 1, 800) and it will be a revelation to millions more who have grown up in the last 65 years with `Swallows and Amazons'.