Re: Full set of 1st editions??


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 30, 2004 at 14:17:11 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Full set of 1st editions?? posted by Phil on September 30, 2004 at 09:39:23:

A beautiful set in their own right. But like you I can't help thinking that rebinding has simply turned them into a nice bunch of books.

One of the great pleasures of re-reading my grotty old set of Cape cloth-bounds (with coloured-in pictures, is there anybody here who hasn't done that?) is the sense in the back of my mind that this is what they must have looked like, as children received them at Christmas or as school prizes, sixty to seventy years ago- not so very long after the S&As stood on Kanchenjunga.

Mine are of course absolutely worthless as eBay items. But I'm 64 now and they're still stacked on my book case within easy reach of where I sit and type this. Although just now I'm reading 'Signalling to Mars', Hugh Brogan's informative and entertaining selection from AR's letters.

Also, as I sit and type, I'm listening to an internet radio station, 'The Kingdom of Swing', broadcasting via live365. I guess a lot of the music is what the Hullabaloos were playing out across the Broads. Not Ransome's pleasure. But I love it...



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