King Commandos by Johns, First Edition (47 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). First Thus. Paperback: illustrated by LESLIE STEAD, cover edges are slightly rubbed on the edges and spine, corners very slightly bumped, some foxing on the foredges and endpapers, pages are tanned, else vg. 156pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+/Very Good-. No Jacket. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book displays foxing to compressed page edges. Top edges quite knocked. Jacket depicted is a colour photocopy with a join to the back flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Teal green cloth, lettered in black. Binding lean, modest tanning/foxing to text block edges and endpapers. 185 pp. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1944. Color illus. dust jacket tanned on rear panel, sunned along spine panel, with modest chipping/loss to corners and spine extremities, clipped front flap, now in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large format with limp cover. Illustrated paper on card. 619 pages with ribbon bookmark. Comprised of four previously published titles : King of the Commandos; Gimlet Goes Again; Gimlet Comes Home; Gimlet Mops Up. Has a tiny crease to rear panel, else Fine. Covers clean and tight. Selling quality books for 35 years.

First edition. 1st edition, 1948, in green cloth; colour frontis. Lacks front free end paper; rear free end paper browned; gouges in cloth on back board, spine, & edge of front board Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).

First edition. 1st edition, 1947; illustrations by Stead. End papers & page fore-edge browned; binding tight; spine badly browned, with worn lettering; boards discoloured & stained Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Provided with a colour copy of the 1st edition jacket. Boards are marked, bumped to corners, pages edges dusty to top. Front free endpaper removed, short tear to half title 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 185 pages (complete). Boards worn, cocked, marked. Previous ownership inscriptions and stamp, tanning, a bit stained, foxing. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st printing. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. October, 1943. Publication of 192 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards are shelf worn with material tears, knocked corners and marks. Binding is sound. Ink scribbles, annotations and ink inscriptions from previous owners on the front paste down, half title page and 1 other page. Tear on the half title page. Spotting throughout, not affecting text. r*30/06/2023. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 192 pages. Colour illustrated dust jacket over teal cloth with dark blue lettering to spine and front board. Illustrated in black and white by Leslie Stead. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Moderate tanning and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, with pen and pencil marks to front endpaper. Illustrations remain bright and clear. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning and foxing to textblock. Clipped dust jacket has moderate wear to edges, with light erosion to spine ends and corners.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1946; post-war economy standard in ochre cloth with black; colour frontis + 8 monochrome plates. Small stain on fore-edge & corner of a few pages; spine faded & a little worn Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. STEAD, LESLIE (illustrator). First Edition. 190x125x25mm+287g . . Brockhampton Press Ltd. Leicester. 1950. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp192. Blue cloth boards with black lettering. Illustrated by LESLIE STEAD. Cover has some marks and edge damage. Top front of book block scuffed. Name and address on front free endpaper. Minor foxing; binding tight: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, dealer sticker, School Prize-plate, foxing, browning/VG, Price-clipped, edgewear, tears, abrasion, perforation, foxing. Adventure in the Siamese jungle. With a colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead, and eight black & white illustrations. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Leslie Stead illustrations (illustrator). First Edition; Third Printing. Light cock, light cover fade, light tone, 1951 gift inscription, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket three 1" tears with creasing, smaller tears and edgewear. Solid hardcover. ; 2nd Gimlet book, first published during WW2 in 1944. Gimlet and his British commandos work with the French underground to free prisoners used as a bombing shield for a factory making aircraft engines. W E Johns' more famous series character, Biggles, shows up to fly them out of occupied France.; The Gimlet Books; Vol. 2; 185 pages.

Condition: Good. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 192pp. Colour frontispiece, 10 text illustrations. Original red cloth. The binding is a little rubbed and bumped, and the contents are a little tanned; overall, this book is in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. 8vo hbk in d/w; pale blue boards with dark blue lettering and small illustration of parachute; very nice copy with just a little page browning; no handwriting inside; d/w not clipped; a little creasing/wear to d/w edges; overall vg+/vg-; this book appears to be in the French King series, the equivalent to the English Gimlet series; ; King; Gimlet); 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. No stated date but understood to be 1950. First edition thus. 185pp., colour frontispiece and 9 black and white illustrations. First published in 1944, this is the second of W.E. Johns's "Gimlet" books. Captain "Gimlet" King parachutes into France, and into a Naxi plot. This is a hard-to-find 'Youth Book Club' edition, and is bound in the original blue boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with a tough of fading rto the spine ends and top edge of the boards. The contents are tight and clean with foxing to the top and fore edges of the text block, and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the top and/or fore margin. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and foxing and the spine is browned. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and nicked and the spine ends and top front corner have been reinforced on the reverse with strips of document repair tape.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1948, in green cloth; colour frontis. End papers a little yellowed; text clean; binding tight. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but a little shelf-worn, & protected in removable clear film. Overall a nice copy Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

1st ed. A little foxing on page fore-edge, otherwise a bright clean copy in similar dust jacket. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Rilegato. Condition: quasi ottimo. senza sovraccoperta. prima edizione. Formato in 16°; 244 pagine. Legatura editoriale cartonata figurata: bruniture. Interno con ossidazioni sparse. Illustrazioni di E. Dell'Acqua.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1947. End papers browned; spine faded. Dust jacket not price-clipped, price 6/-, but very tatty, with tears & loss; sellotape stains on verso; protected in removable clear film Used - Good. Good hardback in Poor dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Poor dust jacket.

First ed. Page fore-edge slightly foxed. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

1st ed. Tiny nick in bottom edge of title page & contents page; binding tight; green cloth not faded; dust jacket bright (not price-clipped), with very slight wear at edges Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The Brockhampton Press, 1948, first edition. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 191pp, illust. Owner name/address, endpapers slightly tanned, d/j a little chipped and torn. A good copy. /0.3uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'King of the Commandos' by Captain W. E. Johns. University of London Press 1943 first edition. Slight foxing. VG in edge frayed dust jacket with some chipping.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No jacket. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Book Condition ? Fine: Signs of age/shelf wear across original dust jacket (creases, scuffs, small tears etc). Now protected by plastic slip cover. Original red cloth binding with black lettering and artwork is mint. Text block has some foxing and discolouration, but mostly clean with decent edges. Pages are clean and tightly bound. Illustrations and plates are unblemished. First edition, first printing. A work of his 'Worrals of the W. A. A. F' series. Copies featuring the original dust jacket are scarce, especially in such great condition. A wonderful collector's item for any fans of the author. King of the Commandos by Captain W. E. Johns is a high-energy wartime adventure featuring bold commando raids, daring heroics, and fast-paced action. Following a fearless leader and his team behind enemy lines, the novel delivers thrilling battles, clever tactics, and a strong sense of wartime camaraderie, perfect for readers who enjoy classic military adventure stories.

Octavo, 190 pages, original boards in edgeworn dustwrapper, foxing to foredges, a very good copy. First edition.