I a Shead (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 3rd impression stated of a good hardcover with discolouration to the boards, and pages toning, in a very good dustjacket with some loss to the top of the spine and wear to the extremities. During WWII, after an air-raid two now homeless families decide to accept an offer from Australia to look after their children for the duration of the war. And so the adventure begins for Jerry Bryant and David and Kathy Blair as they sail to Australia. Young adult fiction.

Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Cloth, G. 288pp, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, preliminary & final pages foxed, cloth rubbed. A fair copy. Australian set adventure fiction for children. The Australian born author was a journalist for the ABC & wrote several adventure stories for children. She moved to England in 1937 & took up a job with the BBC. 600 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Reprint. 271 pp yellow cloth with blue title to spine. A few spots to spine, title page a little spotted otherwise clean sound book, clipped dust wrapper worn and torn with loss to spine ends and corners.

Hardback. Printed pages: 271. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Impression. Dust jacket: Spine faded and has wear to ends. Light stain to rear cover, slight creasing to edges. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Ochre cloth binding with a few small marks. A few spots of foxing to page edges, previous owner's address label to front pastedown endpaper and inscription to front free endpaper. Clean text throughout. WWII evacuees sail to Australia and have adventures at Manly Beach and on a sheep farm. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19.5 cm).

Condition: Good. Yellow cloth-covered boards. Black lettering on spine. Covers worn at edges and a little soiled. Front edge of spine strip cracked, and re-glued. Name neatly crossed-out on front endpaper. Pages tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Copy in yellow cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Spine lightly rubbed at head/foot. Jacket lightly creased along upper edges. Sporadic foxing to folio edges. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 208pp, illustrations. Fiction on the Royal Australian Air Force and a mystery plane. Young readers book, very scarce with the wrapper which is clipped, light wear on a very clean book with glazed paper. 450g.

London: Hutchinson n.d. ab.1935. Thick 8vo. Or.cl. slightly flecked. 288pp. With frontisp. and 4 full-page illusts. 1st ed. Muir 6701. NOTE: Novel of a young man set in Australia.

Condition: Very Good. Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original finely grained grey cloth covers, green title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. Thick 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Contains 288 printed pages of text with frontispiece and four further monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in extremely scarce Good condition dust wrapper with internally repaired closed tear to the top of the spine, rubs to the corners, not price clipped 3/6. This is the first time we have ever handled this book with its original dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.