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FLYING ADVENTURES.
by Featuring stories by JOHNS, W.E.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Hamilton, (1936).. FIRST EDITION (1936), thick 4to, 230 x 180 mm, 9 x 7 inches, white boards colour illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw on spine and upper cover, 248 pages. 1 black and white plate of a Sopwith Camel by Johns himself, 3 black and white plates by Howard Leigh, 6 colour plates (2 signed Stanley Orton Bradshaw, 1 possibly by Johns). A few black and white text illustrations by Leigh also. 11 items, 3 by Johns: Two Air V.C.s; Strange Freight (a short story also printed in The Raid); and The Ace of Spades (a Biggles story also printed in The Cockpit). Also 2 stories by G.E. Rochester, and 2 by Arch Whitehouse. Spine just very slightly worn at head and tail, lower corner of lower board just very slightly worn. Very good plus bright clean copy, no inscriptions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46826
- Title
- FLYING ADVENTURES.
- Author
- Featuring stories by JOHNS, W.E.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, John Hamilton, (1936).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FLYING BI-PLANES AVIATION BIGGLES W. E. JOHNS BOY'S CHILDREN'S
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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