Gimlet Comes Home. by Johns, Captain W. E - 1946

University of London Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. Reprinted. 186 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with major tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

University of London Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. Reprinted. 186 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over tan cloth covered boards. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Damp staining to front board. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Damp staining to reverse of jacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Good. in x in x in. 1946 armada paperback

NELSON, undated. Hardback. GOOD/DW GOOD, some wear and a couple of holes on the edges. 1949 rep. with good dw, some damage and wear in places on the dw, a bit tanned

London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1946. Cover: clean beige cloth with black titles and stag to front cover. Mild sunnng to spine. Light foxing to edges. Small booksellers stamp to bottom of fep. Small news article of Gimlet pasted to ffep. Faint foxing to rep. Clean content. B/w illustrations. Binding tight albeit ever so slightly askew. 186p Dj: dusting of faint soiling. Light sunning to spine. Head & foot of spine wth thin wear, tiny tears and chips. 3cm plus tiny hole of rubbed open hole to rear flap spine. Tiny tear to head of front flap spine. Price cut to front flap foot.. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG.

London: University of London Press, 1949 Reprint. Hardcover. Light orange cloth with black title to spine and front, and vignette of deer stag to front, with pictorial dustjacket. 186pp. Subtitled: Another adventure of King of the Commandos and his Three Musketeers, 'Copper' Colson, 'Trapper' Troublay and 'Cub' Peters. With colour plate frontispiece showing 'Cub' Peters by Stead, and 8 full page line drawings. Very Good book in Fair protected jacket. Covers clean with fade to top margins, bumped corners. Pages clean with lightly browned closed edges which have a few foxing spots. Ink name neatly to flyleaf. Jacket front image bright but is worn and creased with losses to edges and back.

London: University of London Press, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7.5" by 5". Leslie Stead. A bright first edition, first impression of the third "Gimlet" King book by Biggles creator Captain W. E. Johns. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Loosely inserted is a slip headed 'A letter to every boy who reads this book: A Man You Should Know', with a facsimile of the author's signature. Ink inscription to the front free end paper.The third book in the series featuring explorer-soldier Captain Lorrington "Gimlet" King and his comrades. This series was published during and after the Second World War, and many of the books are also set during this time. Major 'Gimlet' Champion, one of Johns' commanding officers during his flying career, is considered to be the inspiration for the main character. In this novel, Copper, Cub and Trapper investigate the… Read More