Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea by Johns, Capt W E (William Earle) - 1968

1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Stated First Edition. 185 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Uncommon Los Angeles gang novel by the author of Sinbad and Me. First Edition, First Printing (full number line on CR page). Pictorial library binding. Well-preserved ex-library. Looks barely circulated or uncirculated. Dustjacket price-clipped. Pocket in front label on spine and expected (though minimal) ink stamps. Jacket glossy with small wrinkling at edges. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Children's Books & Illustrators ; Inventory No: 026497. BZDB373 Children's Books & Illustrators ; Kin Platt The Doomsday Gang

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock...". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. E. H. Shepard. 158 pp. First edition stated, first printing. Clean, bright, square book with light rubbing to spine and just one board corner bumped, some offsetting and light toning to endpapers. Bright dust jacket is free of tears, with slight edgewear and a few minute crinkles near the edges, light rubbing where cloth meets the boards. Some slight softening at top and bottom of spine and one ~1-2mm whitened spot of wear at top of spine. Presents nicely in fresh mylar dust jacket protector. The Tao of Pooh has itself become a cultural icon and the first printing is scarce.

The Bodley Head, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples) : The Last Battle. London : The Bodley Head, 1956. First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 7.75"/20cm. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, bright silver lettering imprinted on spine. DJ in light green w/black and white lettering (front) or white with black lettering (back); front also features a Pauline Baynes illustration in blue and brown of Lucy conferring with faun Tumnus. Blank endpapers/flyleaves; 184 numbered pp. Many Baynes illustrations in b&w (none in color)scattered through text.Condition notes: A highly collectible copy of this Narnia classic, seventh and last in the series (in Lewis' original, published, order). This is the rare 1956 British First edition/First Impression by The Bodley Head. Included is the original dustjacket -- not a reproduction, not price-clipped. Binding is slightly cocked off square,solid. DJ shows tanning and foxing from age both interior and exterior(see photos), a few chips and… Read More

Complete bound Volume 1 (Numbers 1-12) of Popular Flying, preserving the original covers. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions including illustrations and writing by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (as well as a further short story as 'William Earle'). A total of 10 of these 12 issues contain Biggles stories, the early stories under the pen-name "William Earle". Very Good condition internally (protected by the binding), with bumping to lower corners of pages, and early cracking to front hinge. Externally, there is significant scraping to the boards and chipping/discolouration to the spine label. It is most uncommon for bound volumes to preserve the glorious original covers of these magazines.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. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Stated First Edition. 185 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Uncommon Los Angeles gang novel by the author of Sinbad and Me. First Edition, First Printing (full number line on CR page). Pictorial library binding. Well-preserved ex-library. Looks barely circulated or uncirculated. Dustjacket price-clipped. Pocket in front label on spine and expected (though minimal) ink stamps. Jacket glossy with small wrinkling at edges. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Children's Books & Illustrators ; Inventory No: 026497. BZDB373 Children's Books & Illustrators ; Kin Platt The Doomsday Gang

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock...". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. E. H. Shepard. 158 pp. First edition stated, first printing. Clean, bright, square book with light rubbing to spine and just one board corner bumped, some offsetting and light toning to endpapers. Bright dust jacket is free of tears, with slight edgewear and a few minute crinkles near the edges, light rubbing where cloth meets the boards. Some slight softening at top and bottom of spine and one ~1-2mm whitened spot of wear at top of spine. Presents nicely in fresh mylar dust jacket protector. The Tao of Pooh has itself become a cultural icon and the first printing is scarce.

The Bodley Head, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples) : The Last Battle. London : The Bodley Head, 1956. First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 7.75"/20cm. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, bright silver lettering imprinted on spine. DJ in light green w/black and white lettering (front) or white with black lettering (back); front also features a Pauline Baynes illustration in blue and brown of Lucy conferring with faun Tumnus. Blank endpapers/flyleaves; 184 numbered pp. Many Baynes illustrations in b&w (none in color)scattered through text.Condition notes: A highly collectible copy of this Narnia classic, seventh and last in the series (in Lewis' original, published, order). This is the rare 1956 British First edition/First Impression by The Bodley Head. Included is the original dustjacket -- not a reproduction, not price-clipped. Binding is slightly cocked off square,solid. DJ shows tanning and foxing from age both interior and exterior(see photos), a few chips and… Read More

Complete bound Volume 1 (Numbers 1-12) of Popular Flying, preserving the original covers. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions including illustrations and writing by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (as well as a further short story as 'William Earle'). A total of 10 of these 12 issues contain Biggles stories, the early stories under the pen-name "William Earle". Very Good condition internally (protected by the binding), with bumping to lower corners of pages, and early cracking to front hinge. Externally, there is significant scraping to the boards and chipping/discolouration to the spine label. It is most uncommon for bound volumes to preserve the glorious original covers of these magazines.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. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.