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London: Museum Press, 1953. [Children's Adventure Novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 244. With a colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, by Shenton. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Shenton, priced at 7/6. A touch of spotting..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2008. [Children's Fantasy Epic] FIRST EDITION THUS. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 12cm), pp.xiv; 362; pp.x; 299 [3]; pp.x; 466 [2]. Each volume with 11 colour illustrations by Bailey, including frontispieces. Publisher's black cloth heavily decorated and titled in gilt. Complete with..... More
London: George Newnes, no date [1927]. [Children's Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.261. With occasional in-text drawings and a frontispiece by Henry. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Light toning and very minor spotting to edges and..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo. pp.183 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in blue, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced at 7/6. A black..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo. pp.183 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced at 7/6..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. [Children's Adventure] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced at 6s. A crisp, clean copy, very..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. [Children's Adventure] SECOND IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.208. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. [Children's Adventure] EIGHTH IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.191 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations by Soper. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. [Children's Adventure] SECOND IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.190 [2]. With a black and white frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and yellow pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. [Children's Adventure] THIRD IMPRESSION. Small Octavo. pp.192. With a colour frontispiece (same image as jacket), and numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured blue or red, by Soper. Publisher's light blue cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With original dust-jacket illustrated..... More
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet Street, 1726. [Classic Literature / Satire] FIRST EDITION, Teerink's AA issue. Four parts complete in two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 148, pp. [6] 164 [2]; pp.[8] 154 [8] 199 [3]. Complete with six engraved plates, and..... More
London: Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] RARE JACKET, the Centenary Edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 180 [2]. With 12 colour plates by Hudson, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1967. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 10/6. A lovely, bright, crisp copy. Fine. The trail of a jewel thief takes Biggles from Regent Street to..... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. A lovely bright, crisp copy, with just a touch of rubbing to..... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1963. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.170. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's light blue cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with just a hint of spotting..... More
London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Leslie Stead with printed price of 10/6 net in U.K. Small (ink?) mark to the margin of the front endpapers that has bleed through the first..... More
London: Brockhampton Press, 1968. [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead with printed price of 10/6 net in UK. A couple of faint marks to edges, wrapper very lightly handled with some very slight bruising to the..... More
London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [1], advertisement. With colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in yellow to spine. Pictorial jacket priced 8s 6d. Simply a lovely fine copy. Biggles travels to Peru in pursuit..... More
London: David Fickling Books, 2017. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, third printing thus. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.546. Publisher's gilt and silver decorated black cloth, with wave-decorated endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. A fine copy. Pullman returns to the world of the His Dark Materials..... More
London: Scholastic Press, 2001. [Classic Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION of the complete award-winning trilogy in one volume. Large octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.1016. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, yellow ribbon marker and original pictorial dust jacket. Orange..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. [Fantasy adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, in first state jacket (lacking commas after child's names). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.251; [blank]; [3 of reviews]; [advertisement]. Autographed in black ballpoint to the flyleaf. Printed boards and matching pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Cliff Wright, priced at £10.99. Some expected toning..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1894. [Children's Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.491 [5]. With a double-page sketch-map and a vignette title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt, black and blind titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, and floral-patterned endpapers. Illustrated bookplate of..... More
London: Pavilion Books, in association with Michael Joseph, 1985. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.175 [1]. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations as well as nine full-page colour illustrations by Foreman. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated..... More