Rogue Remove by Richards Frank (12 results)

1st ed. Dust jacket spine faded. Howard Baker Magnet volume no.68. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. original green hardcover, illustrated, fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 89.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustjacket present also plastic cover protector, corner unclipped, some light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges a little creased, spine a little faded, some light wear to covers and spine, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. Green cloth-covered boards (gently rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight although a couple of pages show a hint of toning along the gutter. Illustrated, a few in colour. In its original dust jacket (a little bumped and toned at edges, sunned on spine). The writing phenomena known wildly as Frank Richards (real name Charles Hamilton) died at his home in Kingsgate, Kent in 1961 - by then it was estimated he had written over a thousand full length novels. His work appeared continuously for over 30 years in the famous Fleetway House magazine, The Magnet. Most famous of all was his immortal creation, Billy Bunter, the Fat Owl of Grayfrairs Remove, whose exploits enchanted readers from 1908 to 1940. Sadly, the war put an end to the Magnet and, although Richards revived Bunter in other formats after the war, they never quite recaptured the evergreen magic of the original, much-loved, boys' paper. It was for this reason that some 35 years later Howard Baker presented the first of his excellent faithful facsimiles. Each facsimile edition contains a complete series of stories from the Magnet's great golden age. This volume reproduces Volume 68 of the Magnet and contains Billy Bunter tales including Coker Comes a Cropper, The Schoolboy Detective etc. 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile edition. 204pp. Green covers. Illustrated. Minor wear to extremities, margins a little toned o/w very good condition. Dustwrapper a little grubby, spine slightly sunned; price-clipped o/w very good.

VG in VG D/W.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A VG copy in VG dustwrapper. 0.

Large 8vo, various paginations. Black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Part of an extensive collection of Greyfriars facsimile publications.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The Black Sheep of Greyfriars, Volume 17: published in 1973 A seemingly unused copy in a near fine price-clipped Dust Jacket which has a tiny rub to the top of the spine, and an equally tiny nick to the base of the rear panel. No previous owner's name. Very tight binding, pages crisp and clean. The Magnet: The Rogue of the Remove, Volume 68: published in 1979. Condition is VG Green cloth boards, a little rubbing to the edges, corners and extremities of spine. No previous owner's name or inscription. Tight binding. The unclipped dust jacket is laminated and rather brittle down the length of the rear joint. All proceeds of sale go to LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland.…

Condition: good. dw good. Hardback Facsimile of 1929, 1930 edition story papers, Howard Baker Magnet no 68, with vg dw, clipped, some tanning and slight shelf wear otherwise good. Various (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MAGNET VOLUME 68. A very decent copy in a complete d / w. Not very PC nowadays but funny nevertheless.

Pp. [vi]+28+28+28+28+28+28+28, text illustrations & advertisements, including coloured facsimile wrappers; tall cr. 4to; green boards, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; Howard Baker, London, 1979. Howard Baker Magnet Facsimiles Volume 68, Nos. 1129-1131, 1154, 1155, 1157, 1158.…