Light foxing to prelims; cloth VG; jacket with some edge wear and light rubbing.
15 colour plates by the author.
£295
London, Gawthorn, [1944].
First edition. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
An uncommon first edition in the original jacket, very much in keeping with the format and vogue of an earlier era…
In stock
Light foxing to prelims; cloth VG; jacket with some edge wear and light rubbing.
15 colour plates by the author.
Children's Books
London, Blackie, 1886.First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.Henty's tale of the Luddite Riots.
Children's Books
A "Biggles Squadron" Story of the Second Great War
London, OUP, 1943.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations. Original cloth with illustration stamped in black to upper cover. Dust-jacket priced at 5/-.
A rare Biggles first edition, with no jacketed copies in commerce that we could find at time of cataloguing. Biggles and his ominously named 666 squadron set up camp in the mountains of Borneo and embark on a campaign of terror strikes on the Japanese forces.
Children's Books
New York, Random House, 1942.
First edition. Large 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth. Dust-jacket.
The Adventures of Superman, illustrated by Joe Shuster, co-creator of the original character with Jerry Siegel. The jacket has some uniform sunning which has most notably desaturated the red.
Children's Books
The Story of a Boy...with an introduction by E.V. Lucas
London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.
First illustrated edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Jefferies' famous "story of a boy", illustrated for the first time by Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard; uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Accompanied by original printed prospectus.
Children's Books
Courier of the Czar
London, Sampson Low, Marston, n.d..
8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
Early jacketed edition.