The Modern Boy's Annual 1938 (UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION)
by Johns, Captain W E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Amalgamated Press/Fleetway House, 1938. VG. First edition. No d/w. Colour frontispiece illustration with 192pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. Contains a short story by W E Johns 'Biggles Takes The Bait' illustrated with three line-drawings. The story was only gathered and published in 1999. Johns also contributed an article; 'Up & Up & Up'. Bound in dark-blue cloth spine with pictorial paper covers with illustration of an aircraft flying over a green train. NO inscriptions. Rear inner hinge starting (but book secure); some rubbing to tail of spine; some chipping to paper edges; age tanning to edges of pages; corners have losses; else a very good copy of an UNCOMMON first edition. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. ORDERS OUTSIDE OF UK MAY INCUR EXTRA COST.. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18195
- Title
- The Modern Boy's Annual 1938 (UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION)
- Author
- Johns, Captain W E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Amalgamated Press/Fleetway House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Biggles. Boys Fiction. Fiction. Childrens. Young Adult Fiction. Modern First Edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Edition; Fiction; Children's;
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About the Seller
Greystone Books
Biblio member since 2005
Margate
About Greystone Books
Greystone Books is situated in Kent, England. We have been selling on the internet since 1999. We sell collectable books and try to stock obscure and scare non-fiction titles.
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- Hinge
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