Including Johns (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Illustrated. Part 4 of Biggles works it out (Illus Bowe) amongs many more things including an articles on a flying car, Walt Disneys story of the Alaskan fur seal for his first colour documentary & aeromodelling (SL#19).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 180pp. 7 x 5 inch. Interior in nice clean condition. Still well bound. Includes colour plates, cartoons etc, may contain nudity or sexual matters. Please see my other listings for more issues - reduced combined postage offered on multiple orders.

Seventeenth Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Prelims and plate edges slightly foxed. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiv, 356 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 23 cm. Subjects; Botany Great Britain. Grasses Great Britain. Sedges Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Undated edition, probably 1950s, the first story inside is "Biggles Lays a Ghost" by Captain W.E. Johns. Minor handling wear on illustrated cover. Pages are slightly tanned. Jacket has handling wear with chipping, creases and dust spotting on cover and spine. Gift inscription inside.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lillian Buchan (illustrator). 22 stories with b/w illus including Stuart Tresillian, scuff to endpaper, 320pp. reprint. corners bumped, bds lightly soiled.

Seventeenth Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Prelims and plate edges slightly foxed. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiv, 356 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 23 cm. Subjects; Botany Great Britain. Grasses Great Britain. Sedges Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Stead (Dust-Jacket Cover +?) (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Clean red cloth with black titling to the spine. Head/tail to the spine a little 'turned' and fading, but overall VG. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. The dust-jacket has some small nicks/loss to the head/tail of the spine and the rear cover has a triangular sliver of loss to the top inner corner near the spine, and nicks with loss to the other 3 corners, but the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks near Very Good - particularly the front cover which features a lovely 'Stead' illustration of Biggles and (? ) Ginger. Some light toning to the page fore-edges. Internally some pale foxing (pale yellowy spotting) mainly to the front endpapers/ prelims and rear endpapers, o/w NO Inscriptions or Marks. A Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. 190 pages. Black and white illustrations to the text - but no indication of which artist(s). I assume the ones in the Biggles story are by Stead but I can't authenticate that. The Book has 11 Short Stories by the following authors = Captain W. E. Johns, Geoffrey Trease, Garry Hogg, Leslie Morley, Michael Poole, Jeffery Farnol, Eric Leyland, Leonard Gribble, Percy M. Westerman, Gundy Hadath and "Taffrail". Overall a near VG copy, and in the scarce and attractive d/j. See Images. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Original blue cloth boards, 10.75 x 8.5 inches approx. , black title to front board, coloured illustration pasted to front board showing sea planes flying over a small vessel. Bumped to corners, faded to spine title still readable, scuff towards top end of the spine at the front about 1 inch long, the coloured frontispiece entitled 'Alls Well' is pasted to the front pastedown and has a little creasing towards the hinge, title page clean and fresh, The first Contribution is from Flying Officer W E Johns, The Blue Riband of the Air pages 3-8, lavishly illustrated throughout the book with photographs, plates, sketches and diagrams. The book lacks a rear endpaper and is cracked along the hinge, pagination 1-192 pages including the Contents. A there are four colour plates, one opposite page 136 is by Johns 'Pull out' a 'Bristol Bulldog'--. , 16 other full page black and white plates plus numerous black and white illustrations within the text, The book contains a significant amount of material by W E Johns, page 9 there is an article by Flying Officer W E Johns about Croydon Airport. .06+This book has clearly been loved and used by previous owners but it remain in a clean and sound condition ready to be enjoyed by today's enthusiasts. For anyone who adores aviation this book is packed full with information from the early 1930s giving details of pilots, planes, design and aviation adventures. Ths book can be traced using By Jove, Biggles! By Peter Berresford Ellis and Pier Williams (a reliable reference book) as being published in 1931.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition, very good, cloth a trifle sunned, 8 colour plates by Stanley Orton Bradshaw, various authors, one story by W.E. Johns.