The Big Six Arthur Ransome
1940. First Edition. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Maps across endpapers. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.