Posted by Wayne Hammond on April 14, 1998 at 15:41:37:
26) Unfortunately, dust-jackets tend to survive on few copies of Ransome's works. Their survival rate on books held in libraries is particularly low. Therefore I have failed to see a number of them, and ask anyone who has a copy of one of the following, *in the first printing only*, in the original dust-jacket, to please get in touch with me at (Some of these titles may not have been issued in jackets, but most were.) The A.B.C. of Physical Culture. London: Henry J. Drane, 1904. Remember, I'm interested *only* in jackets on *first printings* of these editions. Wayne Hammond
The Souls of the Streets. London: Brown, Langham, 1904.
The Stone Lady. London: Brown, Langham, 1905.
The Child's Book of the Seasons. London: Anthony Treherne, 1906.
Pond and Stream. London: Anthony Treherne, 1906.
The Things in Our Garden. London: Anthony Treherne, 1906.
Highways and Byways in Fairyland. London: Alston Rivers, 1906.
Bohemia in London. London: Chapman & Hall, 1907.
Bohemia in London. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1907.
Bohemia in London. London: Stephen Swift, 1912.
A History of Story-Telling. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909.
A History of Story-Telling. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1910.
Edgar Allan Poe. London: Martin Secker, 1910.
Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1910.
Edgar Allan Poe. London: Stephen Swift, 1912.
Edgar Allan Poe. London: Methuen, 1915.
The Hoofmarks of the Faun. London: Martin Secker, 1911.
The Hoofmarks of the Faun. London: Stephen Swift, 1912.
Oscar Wilde. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912.
Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen, 1913.
The Elixir of Life. London: Methuen, 1915.
Old Peter's Russian Tales. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909.
Old Peter's Russian Tales. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1910.
Russia in 1919. New York: W.B. Huebsch, 1919.
Racundra's First Cruise. London: Allen & Unwin, 1923.
The Chinese Puzzle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.
Rod and Line. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.
Rod and Line. London: Jonathan Cape, 1932.
Rod and Line. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947.
Swallows and Amazons. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. (First edition with the Webb illustrations. Need front flap lower corner only.)
Swallowdale. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1931.
Peter Duck. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1933.
Pigeon Post. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937.
Stories by Theophile Gautier. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908.
Stories by Theophile Gautier. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908.
Stories by Ernst Theodore Wilhelm Hoffman. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908.
Stories by Ernst Theodore Wilhelm Hoffman. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908.
Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908. (Need lower cover and flaps only.)
Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908.
Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908.
Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908.
Stories by Prosper Merimee. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908. (Need lower cover and flaps only.)
Stories by Prosper Merimee. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908.
The Book of Friendship. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909.
The Book of Friendship. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1910.
Stories by Chateaubriand. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909. (Need flaps only.)
Stories by Chateaubriand. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909.
Stories by Honore de Balzac. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909. (Need flaps only.)
Stories by Honore de Balzac. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909.
Stories by the Essayists. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909. (Need lower cover and flaps only.)
Stories by the Essayists. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909.
Stories by Cervantes. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909. (Need lower cover and flaps only.)
Stories by Cervantes. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909.
The Book of Love. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910.
The Book of Love. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1911.
Stories by Gustave Flaubert. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910.
Stories by Gustave Flaubert. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Stories by Daudet and Coppee. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910.
Stories by Daudet and Coppee. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.
A Night in the Luxembourg (by Remy de Gourmont). London: Stephen Swift, 1912.
A Night in the Luxembourg. Boston: John W. Luce, 1912.
A Week (by Iury Libedinsky). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923.
The Kuomintang and the Future of the Chinese Revolution (by T.C. Woo). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1928.
The Book of the Fly-Rod (ed. Sheringham and Moore). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
Down Channel (by R.T. McMullen). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931.
Down Channel. London: Hart-Davis, 1949.
The Cruise of the 'Teddy' (by Erling Tambs). New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934.
The Cruise of the 'Teddy'. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.
The Junior Book of Authors. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1934.
The Far-Distant Oxus (by Hull and Whitlock). New York: Macmillan, 1938.
Sailing Alone Around the World (by Joshua Slocum). London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948.
The Constant Fisherman (by H.E. Morritt). London: A. & C. Black, 1957.
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