BOYS ADVENTURE
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BIGGLES AND THE BLACK RAIDER
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323252
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1st
1953.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, black titles. Black vignette of aeroplane to front. 8 colour plates. Endpapers are maps. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed on flaps, is slightly edge worn and creased with a tear to front panel, rear panel is grubby.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES BREAKS THE SILENCE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 2139960
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1st
1949.
Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
Black boards, silver titles and vignette. 8 blue & white full page illustrations, other b/w illustrations. 191 pages. Some white spots to covers. Corners are bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and marks to outer page edges and page margins. Wrapper is creased with tears; 1" loss to base of spine; smaller loss to corners; some grubby marks.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES FAILS TO RETURN
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139774
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1943.
Good condition.
Blue cloth. Colour frontis and full-page b/w illustrations. Front endpaper is a map. 223 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing/fading and mottling to covers. Foxing and browning to outer page edges.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES FAILS TO RETURN
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139739
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1st
1943.
Good condition in a poor dustwrapper.
Blue cloth. Colour frontis and full-page b/w illustrations. Front endpaper is a map. 223 pages. Spotting and damp marking to covers. Marks to outer page edges and some to page margins. Wrapper is badly torn with some pieces of loss; messily taped back together.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
GIMLET LENDS A HAND
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 2139738
Published by Brockhampton Press.
1st
1949.
Almost very good condition.
A "King of the Commandos" adventure. Blue cloth, black titles. B/w pictures. 4 b/w plates. 189 pages. Fading and spotting to spine; some other marks also to covers. Browning and foxing to outer page edges.
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- CHILDRENS
- GIMLET
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES HUNTS BIG GAME
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139683
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1st
1948.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, 11 two-tone illustrations. 211 pages. Spine is bumped. Some spotting to covers. Foxing and browning to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is creased with some tears and chips; grubby to rear panel.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES LOOKS BACK
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2137306
Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
1st
1965.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Orange boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 191 Pages. Bumping to spine. Inscription in ink, with white tippex fluid marks to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper has top corner of front flap cut off; edge-creasing with a few chips and nicks; a few marks to rear panel.
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- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
DICK O' THE FENS: A TALE OF THE GREAT EAST SWAMP
Written by George Manville Fenn.
Illustrated by Frank Dadd.
Stock no. 1822483
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd..
Very good condition.
Red pictorial boards showing huntsmen in gilt to spine and front board. Gilt titles, bevelled edges. Green text block. Twelve full page illustrations in b/w. 383 pages plus 32 page publisher adverts to rear. Spine lightly faded and lightly worn to top & tail. Corners lightly rubbed. Name stamp and erasure marks to free front endpaper. Scattered foxspots throughout. Hinges pulled but binding tight.
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- CHILDRENS
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
- CHILDRENS (VICTORIAN)
- EAST ANGLIA
- PICTORIAL BINDING
PIRATES OF THE AIR
Written by George E. Rochester.
Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw.
Stock no. 1818827
Published by John Hamilton Ltd..
Circa
1936.
Good condition.
Orange/brown boards, black title label to spine. 4 b/w illustrations including frontis. Part of The Ace Series. Spine browned, boards grubby. Text block browned. Name & address in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing present. All plates correct.
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- CHILDRENS
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
THE TERROR OF THE SEAS
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 2131012
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Limited.
1st
1927.
Almost very good condition.
Stone cloth with black title to spine, black and orange titles and decoration to front cover. B/w plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers. Foxing; heaviest to endpapers and outer page edges.
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- BOYS ADVENTURE
LESLIE DEXTER CADET
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Illustrated by Norman Hepple.
Stock no. 2129099
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd..
Circa
1937.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
An adventure story for boys. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth. Front covers shows ship at docks, spine shows sailor looking out. Yellow/cream titles. 6 b/w plates. Top edge blue. 255 pages. Light bumping along cover edges. A few marks and light foxspots to outer page edges. All plates present. Wrapper is price-cut with large tear to base of spine; a few marks; some chips and nicks, but minimal loss.
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- CHILDRENS
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
- PICTORIAL BINDING
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE
Written by G.A. Henty.
Illustrated by Herbert J. Draper.
Stock no. 1406634
Published by Blackie & Son.
Very good condition.
Dark green pictorial boards. 12 b/w plates plus map of France. 384pp plus Blackie's Book List. A Tale of the Huguenot Wars. Early reprint. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing especially to endpapers and booklist pages. Ticks to illustration list. Plates all present and in very good condition.
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- CHILDRENS
- PICTORIAL BINDING
- ADVENTURE
- BOYS ADVENTURE
- HISTORICAL STORY