Johns Authors (8 results)

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 205 Pages, Illustrated. Authors Include W E Johns. No Date Stated But Probably 1959. Cover Picture Is Of A Helicopter. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book; Unmarked, A Little Shelf-Wear Only. Dustjacket Is Price-Clipped And Some Edge-Wear But No Loss And No Tears.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Presumed 1st Edition. BOY'S OWN PAPER - December 1950. Bumper CHRISTMAS Number! Volume 73. No. 3. ONLY. Single Issue Vintage period magazine (16cm x 21cm) with VG illustrated colour cover. & slightly creased cover corners, and one small closed edge tear, o/w VG. Rusty staples, but all complete. Internally Excellent. 104 pp. No inscriptions or marks inside - Includes b/w and red/monocrome illustrations, articles, fiction, etc. Plus period adverts, Including a highly un- PC full colour ad for Sharps Toffee on the inside of the rear cover. This issue has a central special 'Christmas Book Feature' printed on lemon coloured paper. This magazine also includes this months' part of a Biggles Story serialised (Biggles at School) by W. E. Johns, and a part of another serial by Gunby Hadath 'The Face at the Window'. Also includes amongst other articles/features - A Cycle Race game to play like a board game; Young Footballers; 'Step up your Dancing' by Victor Silvestor; Rabbits get their best pelts in Winter; Centre Threequarter Play by G. V. Wynne-Jones, etc, etc. See Images. ; Boy's Own Paper Magazine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition No covers as bound April 1932-march 1933 This Bind up contains the first ever Biggles story "The White Fokker" also a piece by William Earl (W E Johns pseudonym) "The Balloonatics, A Biggles story". The front and rear boards and spine are clean, bright and straight.Removable plastic cover protecting the boards.Minor rubs to edges and corners. The front and rear inside boards have some foxing this has not spread to the internal pages which are bright and clean. .

[1939], Boys book of 14 flying stories five of which are by W E Johns, also by , William Hansboro, Geo. E. Rochester, Rolf Marben, Kenneth Quintetrel, Rudolf Stark and "Vigilant". 4 colour plates and 4 monochrome plates.Illustrators incude, W E Johns, Howard Leigh and Stanley Orton Bradshaw. Red cloth spine with paper covered boards, the front board has a Howard leigh colour illustration of four spitfires in a dive. 248 pages, 7 X 9 inches. A good copy , all plates present, browning to page edges, and two owners details on the front free endpaper ( 1939 and 1970). Boards are rubbed and worn at the edges, endpapers split at the hinges. The cloth spine is rubbed with some wear at the sides and spine ends, and with a couple of repairs to the cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Scarce Original Paperbound Monthly Issues. Slim Royal 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers (somewhat worn and a little chipped. Spine lacking Aug. 1939 issue. Otherwise Very Good. ) Adverts and illusts. throughout. Other contributors include G.M.Bowman, Capt. John E.Doyle, Milford Hyde, Russell Mallinson, Wilfrid Tremellen, L.S.Metford ;- etc., etc. Fascinating early aviation interest! (Extra postage required for Overseas shipping.).

Disbound. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Leigh, Howard; W. E. Johns; Stanley Orton Bradshaw (illustrator). First Edition. No date (c. 1936) . 248 pages + b& w frontis + 3 b&w plates + 5 of 6 colour plates. Dimensions: 9" by 7". NB: condition. Front board detached. Rear board missing. Spine missing. Pencil scribbles on inside of front board. The frontis illustration is by Howard Leigh. Two of the other b&w plates are by Howard Leigh and the third is by W. E. Johns ("Johns") . The b&w plate by Johns has moderate creasing and several 1" tears in the margins. Of the 5 colour plates, the first two are by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. The other three have no artist's name. Some are possibly by W. E. Johns? One of the other three plates is titled "The Camels are Coming", which was the titel of W. E. Johns first book. The missing sixth plate is titled "The Duel". Some of the colour plates are in fair condition only as someone has traced over the outlines of the images creating indentations in the paper. 1" chip missing in one plate. 2" marginal tear and several 3/8" tears in one plate. Rubber school stamp on title page. Occasional pen marks or small stains. Moderate browning to pages throughout. The front board is very worn with chips and heavy rubbing. This book is a collection of 11 short stories, of which 3 are by W. E. Johns. One of these three stories is a Biggles story ("The Ace of Spades") . ; 8vo.