Published by Collins Clear-Type Press N.D., London And Glasgow
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. The DJ is price cut and there is edge wear, some chipping and creasing. The book has a hinge crack at the front hinge. The pages are tanned. The spine ends of the book are bumped and there is some edge wear.
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1940
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1940. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are mildly tanned with moderate foxing, heavy in places. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Notable thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable water staining to pages throughout. Heavy foxing and droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Notable denting to spine. Boards are notably warped.
Published by The Children's Press, London, 1940
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Original blue cloth. The bright dust jacket has a small hole in the middle of the spine. The spine edges are a tad ragged and it is clipped. Near Fine / Good.
Published by Collins' Clear-Type Press
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Illustrated jacket over green cloth with silver titles and decoration to front and spine. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by The Children's Press
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have medium tanning and light foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Staining to both boards.
Published by Collins, London
Seller: Oopalba Books, Sale, MANCH, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. No Jacket. No date. Blue hardbackwith silver logo and silver spine title. . B/W frontispiece. Collins clear Type Press. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Childrens Press, 1111
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No jacket. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Language: English
Published by The Children's Press, London
Seller: knolly57, Harrogate, United Kingdom
No DJ Secure binding Browning to page edges Neat Xmas inscription.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1933
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Blue cloth with titles and design blind-impressed on front board and in black to spine. Welsh Sunday school prize plate to front pastedown. Octavo. 253 pages. Dustwrapper ( illustrated by C Baker) not price-clipped, titles etc. clear and design smart. Much wear to all edges. Presentable in new plastic overwrapper.
Language: English
Published by Collins Clear-type, London
Seller: Philip Emery, Bridlington, United Kingdom
Hardback in Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Incomplete. Reprint. 256 pages, frontispiece, page edges browned, top of spine panel missing, (Boys' and Girls Library).
Published by Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1111
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: G+. 1st thus. A good copy for age. nd but po inscription dated 1941, assumed 1st edn. Ward and Lock Royal series. Blue cloth cover with black sun/cloud decoration on front cover and spine. Spine a little worn to top, tail and edges and very slightly cocked. Minor bumping to cover corners. Internally minor browning and a little foxing to eps. Title page pulled away a tail edge. Immediate despatch from the UK. 12mo. HB. Book.
Published by The Children's Press
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.
Published by The Children's Press
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 224 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and loss. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by The Children's Press, London and Glascow, 1940
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. Very Good blue hardcover, no dustjacket, no date (circa 1940).
Language: English
Published by The Children's Press, London and Glasgow, 1111
Seller: Garden City Books, Herts, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Action adventure story of an intrepid young airman for older children . Interior has an ex pencil price mark otherwise clean interior with all pages tight in binding, blue cloth covers clean and unscuffed. Dustjacket is clipped, generally clean , small tear to spine base.
Published by Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1934
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent and faint marking to rear board.
Published by The Childrens Press, England
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dustjacket is worn with tears. Several pages have small chips caused by a printing error at the binding edge. A sound copy. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.
Language: English
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow, 1951
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
US$ 11.07
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBlue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Part of front of jacket missing but racing car still intact. Please email for further details Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.
Language: English
Published by The Children's Press, London and Glasgow
Seller: The Raven and the Writing Desk, Ruawai, NORTH, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Pages of book are browned, jacket is torn.
Published by Collins Sons and Co Ltd 1946, 1946
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, London, 1934
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 14.56
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: G+. Alfred Sindall (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo. A good copy in blind-stamped blue cloth covers with black titling on spine. Slight tilt to spine, minor bumping to cover corners. presentation label to ffep. Foxing to eps, fore edge and a very few pages. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE AEROBUS Herbert Strang - Charles Gilson - J. F. C. Westerman - 1935. Oxford University Press. Binding slightly slack. Spine sunned. Some wear. G.
Published by The Children's Press, London, n.d.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Early printing, blue cloth, 218pp, frontis illus, VG- (sl edge wear, sl sunned soiled & rubbed, v sl foxed edges and spasmodically throughout, contents v sl browned) d/w VG (v sl chipped spine head & foot, v sl creases wear & tears to extrems, sl sunned soiled & rubbed, v sl internal foxing).
Published by The Children's Press, London and Glasgow, 1952
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good -. 224 p.: illustration; 19 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine tilte and cover illustration. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's list of Boys' and Girls' Library on back section of dust jacket. Back flap has subscription form for Collins Young Elizabethan magazine. Bookplate on front free endpaper indicating that this book was given as a prize book for attendance at St. Andrews' Presbyterian Sunday School in Ulverstone, Australia, in 1955. No date of publication; WorldCat gives 1952. Scarce in the United States. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: ends of spines slightly faded; pages are browning but clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: rubbed and lightly soiled; loss at ends of spine and corners; colors are bright.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1933
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
US$ 10.77
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCondition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Published by Oxford University Press, 1929
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1929. First Edition. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.
Published by CHILDREN'S PRESS
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. WITH 218 PAGES , BLUE CLOTH , HARD COVER , TATTY DUST JACKET, GOOD CONDITION.
Published by Humphrey Milford 1933, 1933
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
hardcover octavo (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Children's Press, Glasgow, 1950
Seller: Garden City Books, Herts, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. undated c early 1950's book for older boys. Despite the gorgeous cover illustration what the modern reader may find politically incorrect is the frontis, showing a pilot being held at gunpoint with the caption "hold the plane steady or I'll shoot". Ex pencil prices inside cover otherwise clean in terior and all pages tight within binding. Dustjacket is clipped, small chink missing to rear but generally clean beneath clear protective sleeve.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, London, UK, 1939
Seller: Secondhand Books 'n' Things, Buninyong, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by Oxford University Press, 1939, London UK. This book is in good condition - edge wear to boards; neat inscription; spotting to edges and some pages. The dust jacket is in good condition - price-clipped; edge wear with creases, rubbing and nicks; half inch tear at top of spine, mainly closed but with small lose of material; nicks at bottom of spine and corners with small losses; back looks a little dirty. Photographs available on request.