king commandos von johns captain w e (26 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1943. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Frontispiece and half-title page detached but still present. Colour illustrated frontispiece with black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 2rd impression . Second impression, 1951. Gift inscription from the previous owner on the front free end paper page. complete with all plates. Publication of 189 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, closed tears and chipped pieces along the edges. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the block of the book and on the first and last few pages as well as on the inner jacket. All pages are accessible. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. THE BROCKHAMPTON PRESS 1948. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 185 pages (complete). Boards worn, cocked, marked. Previous ownership inscriptions and stamp, tanning, a bit stained, foxing. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st printing. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Walter Foster (illustrator). 158 pages. Cover very worn. Text tanned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. October, 1943. Publication of 192 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: Good. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 192pp. Colour frontispiece, 10 text illustrations. Original red cloth. The binding is a little rubbed and bumped, and the contents are a little tanned; overall, this book is in good condition.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition Thus. No stated date but understood to be 1950. First edition thus. 185pp., colour frontispiece and 9 black and white illustrations. First published in 1944, this is the second of W.E. Johns's "Gimlet" books. Captain "Gimlet" King parachutes into France, and into a Naxi plot. This is a hard-to-find 'Youth Book Club' edition, and is bound in the original blue boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with a tough of fading rto the spine ends and top edge of the boards. The contents are tight and clean with foxing to the top and fore edges of the text block, and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the top and/or fore margin. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and foxing and the spine is browned. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and nicked and the spine ends and top front corner have been reinforced on the reverse with strips of document repair tape.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. Leslie Stead (illustrator). Reprint. 12mo. original blue boards (a little rubbed & sunned, some spotting; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 186 (last blank), with colour frontispiece and text illustrations. A very good copy. No. 2 in the Gimlet series, this one set in wartime France.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG-. Leslie Stead (illustrator). Reprint. VG+/VG-. 12mo. original light brown boards (a trifle rubbed, prev. owner's name to FFE, occasional offsetting and leaf edge speckling) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & frayed with some chipping to extremities); pp. 186, with colour frontispiece and text illustrations. A very good copy. No. 3 in the Gimlet series, this one set in Scotland.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. No jacket. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Book Condition ? Fine: Signs of age/shelf wear across original dust jacket (creases, scuffs, small tears etc). Now protected by plastic slip cover. Original red cloth binding with black lettering and artwork is mint. Text block has some foxing and discolouration, but mostly clean with decent edges. Pages are clean and tightly bound. Illustrations and plates are unblemished. First edition, first printing. A work of his 'Worrals of the W. A. A. F' series. Copies featuring the original dust jacket are scarce, especially in such great condition. A wonderful collector's item for any fans of the author. King of the Commandos by Captain W. E. Johns is a high-energy wartime adventure featuring bold commando raids, daring heroics, and fast-paced action. Following a fearless leader and his team behind enemy lines, the novel delivers thrilling battles, clever tactics, and a strong sense of wartime camaraderie, perfect for readers who enjoy classic military adventure stories.

Octavo, 190 pages, original boards in edgeworn dustwrapper, foxing to foredges, a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with 11 illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

The Brockhampton Press, Leicester. 1950. Second Impression of First Edition. Colour frontis. Top margin of boards faded, fore-edges foxed. Wrapper clipped, but price still intact, extremities worn and slightly creased. Contents clean and sound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket (6/-net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 191pp. Colour frontispiece, full page b/w illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to dustjacket edges, foxing to page block. (27/3).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green boards with black lettering and illustrations, no dustjacket, 185pp. colour frontispiee, b/w illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions, few light marks to boards. (18/3).

Zustand: Acceptable. JOHNS, Captain WE King of the Commandos (Armada Paperbacks for Boys & Girls) May Fair Books, London, 1963, 1st thus, paperback, fair, illustrated from six line drawings by Walter Foster, 158 Areciable shelf wear to paperback wraps and spine strip (see scans), 15cm by 1cm chip at spine tail, 1cm split to one side of spine strip, shaken with several loose pages, pages clean, tanned Reading copy CHIDREN'S COLLECTABLE, CAPTAIN WE JOHNS, GIMLET ADVENTURE STORY 46723 CHILD'S COLL/JOHNS £1650 158.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd impression. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 192pp.

The Borckhampon Press. Leicester. 1949. First edition. Hardback with DW. Extremities worn with pages slightly browned and foxed otherwise a lovely clean copy in a slightly worn wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in red cloth pictorial boards with black lettering to front and spine. No dustjacket. 192pp. Colour frontispiece and b/w illustrations within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (6/4).

Hard Back. Reprint. A Story of Combined Operations Illustrated dust jacket with slight discolouration some wear and closed tears to the extremities Not price clipped Original red cloth boards with black printed illustration and titles in good condition despite a little fading along the top edge Light foxing to the prelims otherwise a good clean copy with colour frontispiece and several monochrome illustrations throughout pp 192 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. In removable protective plastic jacket. Some small nicks to edges of jacket. Previous owners inscription on FFEP. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Children's adventure story collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227; [1], blank. With six green-tinted double spread illustrations by Stead, colour frontispiece and title page on pale green coated paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt, pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket. Edges lightly spotted, jacket with some chips to spine ends and a few short edge tears. Very good.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Children's adventure story collectionl] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.227; [1], blank. With six green-tinted double spread illustrations by Stead, colour frontispiece and title page on pale green coated paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt, pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket. Lacks free endpaper else a pleasing copy in a lightly nicked jacket. Uncommon in bright condition.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of Gimlet's Oriental Quest by Captain W. E. Johns. With illustrations, and a coloured Frontispiece. William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 ? 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns although he never held that rank. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles. In a green cloth binding in an unclipped dustwrapper in an acetate protective covering. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean Very Good Indeed. book.