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THINGS
Written by Roger Hargreaves. Illustrated by Roger Hargreaves.
Stock no. 2140336
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Humourous colour illustrations. ISBN: 034027445X. Spine is browned. Some knocks along cover edges. Page edge browning.

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COUNT WORM
Written by Roger Hargreaves. Illustrated by Roger Hargreaves.
Stock no. 2140335
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1980. Very good condition.

The friendly worm twists himself into the shapes of the numbers. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0340209550. 3rd impression. A few indentation marks to covers.

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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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BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139795
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1944. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles to front and spine. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. 179 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Covers are mottled/foxed. Some foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is grubby with edge-creasing; a few tears and chips, a few small areas of loss.

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BIGGLES SWEEPS THE DESERT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139791
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1947. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Biggles Squadron versus the Nazi ace, Von Zoyton, in the battle of the Libyan air route. Blue cloth. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spotting to spine and cover edges. Some bumping to corners. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with tears and chips; a few small areas of loss.

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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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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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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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BIGGLES TAKES A HOLIDAY
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 2139680
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1949. Almost very good condition.

Blue boards, red titles and panther vignette. 8 full-page illustrations. 190 pages. Spine and cover edges are browned. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Damp staining to bottom of outer page edges and a little way up some margin pages.

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THE NAMELESS BOAT
Written by M. Pardoe. Illustrated by Leslie Atkinson.
Stock no. 1322970
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Mary Gray and the Barnard boys are off for a caravanning holiday on the west coast of Scotland - and to another adventure! Green boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 191 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with minimal chipping at top and tail of spine and some rubbing of surface paper too.

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FLYING TO THE SUN
Written by Geoffrey Cuthbert.
Stock no. 2139579
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. A quarter of a century of Britannia Airways, Europe's leading leisure airline. ISBN: 0340410205. Bumping to top of spine. Foxing to outer page edges.

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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2139410
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists. Circa 1930. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Published for Boots The Chemist. Large format. Red cloth covers, gilt titles. 16 colour tipped-in plates. Many b/w illustrations. 319 pages. 10 x 7.5". Light bumping to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and page margins. Wrapper is unevenly faded/browned with creasing and tears and chips; but minimal loss.

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