BIGGLES IN AUSTRALIA
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Studio Stead.
Stock no. 1330793
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1957. Almost very good condition.

Red boards with aborigine vignette on front cover. 6 colour plates. 3rd impression. Spine and corners bumped. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Foxing to prelims else contents clean.

THE DAZZLE
Written by Edna O'Brien. Illustrated by Peter Stevenson.
Stock no. 1830925
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Bullied by the objects in his bedroom, which nag him endlessly, Tim is made even more nervous than usual when, after a bad storm, he has to move into the attic bedroom for a while. Here he meets Mattie. a mouse with a magic dazzle. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 44 pages. ISBN: 0340264918. Boards slightly unevenly better. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Boards a little grubby. A few minor marks to contents and lightly fingering from page turning. Still a nice copy.

CLIFF MORGAN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY: BEYOND THE FIELDS OF PLAY
Written by Cliff Morgan; Geoffrey Nicholson.
Stock no. 1330764
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the famous Welsh rugby player who joined the BBC as a commentator. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 246 pages. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0340657413. Dustwrapper is just a tiny bit edge creased.

BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330741
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 182 pages. 5th impression. Minimal bumping to spine. Child's name in ink to front free-endpaper. Rear free-endpaper is missing. Old tape marks to front free-endpaper and last text page (because the endpaper is missing). Price-cut wrapper is slightly wrinkled and has a light vertical crease to front edge of spine.

BIGGLES FAILS TO RETURN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330740
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1950. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 223 pages. 3rd impression. Spine and corners bumped. A few foxpspots to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is in several pieces and is edge chipped and torn with slight loss to top of spine and tiny chip to lower edge of front panel. Rear panel is slightly grubby. Front flap is detached but held in place by old tape (which is now browned and loosing the glue!).

COMRADES IN ARMS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330735
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, red titles. Stories of Biggles, Worrals and Gimlet. Colour frontis and title pages plus double-page green and black illustrations. 2nd impression. Fading to spine and a couple of cover edges. 'Letter' from Johns taped to front endpaper; tape is yellowing and brittle. Wrapper has taped to edges and is browned/yellowed. Some marks to cover edges from old tape. Some chipping to wrapper.

BIGGLES TAKES A HOLIDAY
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330733
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1951. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, darker blue titles and panther vignette. 8 full-page illustrations. 190 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Light browning to spine and a few marks to front cover. Some foxing otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge scuffed, faded to spine and just a little grubby to rear panel.

BIGGLES FORMS A SYNDICATE
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330732
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biggles finds himself at 'Hells Gates'. Red boards, black title to spine, small vignette to front board. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Some very light browning to endpapers and a few very tiny foxspots to textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and a bit grubby to rear panel.

SERGEANT BIGGLESWORTH C.I.D.
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330727
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles. Colour frontis and 8 other illustrations. The first post-war Biggles story. 2nd impression. Spine bumped. Mottling to covers and a small white mark to top edge of rear cover. Tiny dent to top edge of rear cover. Date ink stamp to rear pastedown. Endpapers are partly browned. Some very slight foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with slight loss and a little grubby to rear panel.

WORRALS IN THE WILDS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330718
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

The first post-war Worrals story. Blue covers. Black titles. Colour frontis plus 6 two-tone illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers very slightly grubby (spine very slightly browned). Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning throughout else contents clean.

THE FIRST BIGGLES OMNIBUS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330715
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contains 4 four-length stories: Biggles Sweeps The Desert, Biggles In The Orient, Biggles Delivers The Goods and Biggles Fails To Return. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 640 pages. 5th impression. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is a little edge rubbed with light damp staining to spine.

PETER AND WENDY
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
Stock no. 1209004
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1911. Almost very good condition.

The first full-length novel featuring Peter Pan who originally appeared in a section of J.M. Barrie's The Little White Bird. A successful play was staged in 1904 entitled Peter Pan Or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Following the success of the play Hodder & Stoughton extracted a number of chapters from The Little White Bird and republished them with illustrations by Arthur Rackham with the title Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens. It wasn't until 1911 that the play was adapted and expanded to novel length and this is the offering we have here. The binding is dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine a white decorative border to front cover with a white vignette showing Peter Pan with two mermaids and the crocodile. The book is beautifully illustrated in b/w by Bedford with a title page, frontis and 11 other plates (13 plates in total). 267 pages. Printed by T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh. Spine and corners are bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly marked. Gilt publisher name to base of spine has faded. Front joint is cracked showing webbing. Some of the plates are loose but all are present. Some hinges cracked. There is foxing throughout. Top edge of textblock is a bit dusty.