Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome and Helene Carter, 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 Helene Carter (1887 to 1960)—A Canadian artist who illustrated children's books and some adult fiction

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 first of the Swallows and Amazons series, in which the four Walker children (The Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger) set up camp on an uninhabited island, but the Amazons (the two Blackett girls, Nancy and Peggy) have a prior claim on the island and declare war. Meanwhile the pirate Captain Flint blames the Swallows for damaging his boat ….

Illustrations include : 'They Set Sail', 'Holly Howe', 'Despatches', 'Making the Ship's Papers', 'The Hidden Harbour', 'Discharging Cargo', 'Pearl Diving', 'It's a Shark!', 'That's a Fine Little Ship …', 'Carrying the Puncheon', 'Leading Lights', 'The Charcoal-Burners' Hut', 'Galumphing', 'Loading Firewood', 'The Houseboat', 'The Lighthouse Tree', 'Robinson Crusoe', 'In Rio Bay', 'The Amazon River at Dusk', 'Night Sailing', ''Swallow' Outside the Harbour', 'Dixon's Farm', 'Cormorant Island', 'The Mate at Work', 'The Attack on the Houseboat', 'Finding the Treasure', 'The Storm' and 'Homeward Bound'.