Posted by Owen Roberts on March 21, 2010 at 20:00:34 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Swallows 80th anniversary posted by Philip Ragan on March 21, 2010 at 23:44:25:
If the SA cost 7s 6d in 1930, it would cost now £17.49. The actual price of SA today is £14.99. So we are better off today!
Remember the original has no illustrations and the cover was a version of the map that is to be found at the front of the bok today.
I think the last copy of the first edition of SA went under the hammer at Tennants for £6500 in 2007.
I think there was another original copy of the first edition at the 75th Anniversary.