Johns W E Etc (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reading copy only, blue boards with some marks and rubbing on the spine, front inner hinge starting to split, foxing and marks on some pages, small inscription, no jacket. An undated edition probably 1950s to 1960s.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. COLOUR PLATES etc (STANLEY ORTON BRADSHAW) (illustrator). 1st Edition. CORNERS AND EDGES RUBBED, SPINE ENDS WORN BUT, ALL IN ALL, PRETTY GOOD FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK FROM THE THIRTIES. SOUND BINDING. ALL FOUR BLACK AND WHITE PLATES PLUS THE SIX FULL COLOUR PLATES PRESENT. (THERE ARE ALSO LINE DRAWINGS WITHIN THE TEXT AND AT CHAPTER HEADINGS). MINOR SIGNS OF AGE AND USAGE. NO INSCRIPTIONS. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Air Adventures' published by Ace Publishing Co circa 1935. Contains stories by W. E. Johns, George E. Rochester etc. Spine split most of the way down one side, lacks front endpaper. Some wear, inscription and contents page ticked. G. 0.

Hardback. Condition: GOOD. VARIOUS (illustrator). SPINE HURT AT THE BOTTOM, UNDATED FIRST STORY 'GEORGE THE INQUISITIVE GANDER'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Flying Adventures' by Flight Lieutenant. Illustrated by Howard Leigh with a nice cover by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. John Hamilton. Undated, circa 1937. Slight edge rubbing with minor chipping to the spine tips. Good++ and hard to find.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine/Mint. First Edition. a Fine/Mint copy in a Fine/Mint unfaded unpriced d/w.

Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Red Fox]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. tanned pages W E Johns Biggles buries a hatchet 7 part serial complete. Book.

Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Det Forsvunne Dagboksblad, The Missing Page]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.

Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Det Forsvunne Dagboksblad, The Missing Page]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo. Vol.1. Nos.1,2,3,&4. Pp, 128, 128, 128, 112. Illustrations. Original red cloth lettered black on spine. Binding rubbed, creased and with some wear. Internally perfectly sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Various (illustrator). First Edition. A bound volume of "Thriller" with a 'pot pourri' selection from No.1 (1929) to No.589 (final issue) 1940, nos 1 (9/2/29, featuring a complete Edgar Wallace story, Red Aces), 43, 45, 47, 48, 50, 53, 60, 65, 72, 74, 407, 526, 528, 530, 549,550 561, including the first printing of Biggles in the Baltic (as "Storm Troop of the Baltic Skies") in a bound volume of Thriller and War Thriller, 6 of the 11 episodes (parts 3,4,6,7,9,11 in nos.581,582,584,585,587,589 (23/3/40-18/5/40) pre-dating the book of June 1940, with illustrations that have never appeared in book form, and complete stories by Barkeley Gray, Anthony Parsons, John Drummond, Edgar Wallace etc etc, please see images for a full contents list, stains on just a few pages, otherwise near-Fine in plain red binding with gilt lettering on the spine, 25 issues near-Fine, priced for the 25. (overseas buyers please note this is quite heavy and would require some additional postage to the standard quoted).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Various (illustrator). First Edition. Sky High and Steeley Flies Again in a bound volume of "The Thriller Library" - magazine - storypaper - (with covers bound in) for nos.383-411 6/6/36-19/12/36, Sky High in 2 episodes in 392-393 as "Calling All Cars!" and "Steeley Muscles In", and Steeley Flies Again in 2 episodes in 401-402 as "The Kidnapping of Virginia Marven" and "The Gangsters' Stronghold", many nice uncredited illustrations, including the covers of 392,401 and 402, the 29 issues (which also includes stories by Barry Perowne (first 4 parts of a Raffles serial - The Secret of the Seven Heads in 408-411), Sydney Horler, Evadne Price, John Hunter, John G Brandon etc etc), bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering on the spine, spine a little sunned, otherwise Fine (overseas buyers please note this is quite heavy and would require some additional postage to the standard quoted).