Worrals Carries On by Johns, Captain W. E - 1945

Lutterworth Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. New Edition. 175 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining. Book has strong forward lean.

Toronto: The Musson Book Company Ltd, 1945. Pp. 235+[3](advertisements, last blank), coloured frontispiece, black & white full page text illustrations; demy 8vo; beige cloth, lettered in red, the boards a trifle warped and slightly foxed, edges lightly worn; top edges red; inked ownership inscription on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; The Musson Book Company Ltd., Toronto, 1945. First Canadian edition. *Originally published by Lutterworth Press, London, in 1942.

London: Lutterworth, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. G, Shelfwear, spine lean, bumping, dealer sticker at foot of inner front board, soiling, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. A Worrals adventure. With 8 black & white illustrations, including the frontispiece. Photos on request..

Lutterworth Press, London, 1942, first impression,. 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 143pp, 9 b/w illustrations, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, foxing on edges and pages browning throughout, otherwise clean and sound, grey cloth, spine slightly browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

London: Lutterworth Press. 1942. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original grey cloth with brown titles to the spine, without the dustwrapper. Illustrated with nine full page drawings in black. A very good copy, the binding square an firm with bumping to the spine tips and corners, the cloth with a few marks and foxing spots. The contents, with the author's inscription on the front endpaper and some toning and foxing to the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Inscribed by W. E. Johns in black ink on the front endpaper "With the compliments of the author / W.E. Johns". Scarce thus. The second published Worrals story (although the third in book form), as the novel was first serialised in the Girl's Own Paper between October 1941 and September 1942. The book followed in October, just after the September publication of Worrals Flies Again. Further details and images for any of the items listed are… Read More