Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome, Signed 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

Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its most books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House.

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'.

There are twenty three full page illustrations: 1—'The Look Out', 2—'Letting Fly', 3—'Slater Bob Talks of Gold', 4—'The Pigeon-Loft', 5—'How Dick Made the Pigeons Ring a Bell', 6—'On the Road', 7—'Nice and Handy to the House', 8—'Combing the Topps', 9—''i Know What She's Doing'', 10—'The First Mug of Water', 11—'Uphill Work', 12—'As If He Did Not Know They Were There', 13—'Roger in the Mine', 14—'Joggling the Pan', 15—'Squashy Hat Comes Out of the Hill', 16—''They've Gone In'', 17—'Scouts at Dusk', 18—'Charcoal Pudding', 19—'Page From Dick's Pocket-Book', 20—'Mrs Tyson Visits the Camp', 21—'Forlorn Hope', 22—'The Flames Board Past Outside' and 23—'Able Seaman Fighting the Fire'.

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