Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome and Mary E. Shepard, First Us Edition with Dust Jacket

Arthur [Mitchell] Ransome (1884 to 1967)—English author and journalist, born in Leeds and best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books (Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts And The Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All and Great Northern?). He was also the author of forty or so other titles including other children's books, fishing books, sailing books and books on politics and Mary Shepard (1909 to 2000)—An English illustrator, best known for her illustrations of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins. She was the daughter of E. H. Shepard, illustrator of children's literature including Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. In 1937 she married E. V. Knox, becoming Mary Knox

The Junior Literary Guild—(Founded in 1929) a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. [McBride page 60] and J. B. Lippincott Co—(Founded in 1836) an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. [McBride page 63] [Zempel and Verkler page 256] .

Swallows and Amazons—A series of 12 (Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts And The Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All and Great Northern?) children's books by English author Arthur Ransome, named after the title of the first book in the series. They involve the outdoor adventures of children, most notably John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, Nancy and Peggy Blackett and Dick and Dorothea Callum. They portray an idyllic, yet also realistic, depiction of childhood adventure set in the 1930s. The series contains 12 books. The first book was originally published in 1930 and the last book was originally published in 1947. Titles in the series are: 1—'Swallows and Amazons', 2—'Swallowdale', 3—'Peter Duck', 4—'Winter Holiday', 5—'Coot Club', 6—'Pigeon Post', 7—'We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea', 8—'Secret Water', 9—'The Big Six', 10—'Missee Lee', 11—'The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome at All', 12—'Great Northern?' and 13—'Coots in the North (Unfinished)'

The Swallows and Amazons and Ds camp at High Topps while they look for gold in the Coniston hills, desperate to beat a mysterious rival prospector, Squashy Hat ….

There are thirty five chapters: 1—'Beginning Already', 2—'The Plam', 3—'Consulting Slater Bob', 4—'Mrs. Blackett Makes Considerations', 5—'Pioneers and Stay-At-Homes', 6—'News From the Wilderness', 7—'Trek to Tyson's', 8—'High Topps', 9—'Two Kinds of Camping Places', 10—'Prospecting', 11—'Fending Off the Enemy', 12—'Pot of Paint', 13—'Can't Anybody Dowse?', 14—'Deseration', 15—'Titty Makes Up Her Mind to It', 16—'Sinking the Well', 17—'Shifting Camp', 18—'The White Spots', 19—'Roger Alone', 20—'What's Become of Him', 21—'Staking Their Claim', 22—'Crushing and Panning', 23—'Jack-In-The-Box', 24—'Buried Alive', 25—'Hurrying Moles', 26—''We've Got to Do it All Ourselves'', 27—'A Run on Blowpipes', 28—'Charcoal-Burners', 29—'Blast Furness', 30—'Disaster', 31—'Smoke Over High Topps', 32—'In the Gulch', 33—'At Beckfoot', 34—'The Natives' and 35—'The End'.

Winner Of The First Carnegie Medal Awarded for Children's Literature, 1936.