Worrals Of The Islands by Johns, Captain W. E - 1947

Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. Third Impression. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout and colour frontispiece by Stead. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front pastedown. 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.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. 3rd impression. 192 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Protected by plastic wrapper.

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. Book. Illus. by Stead. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. B0007K0IZK. no dustjacket. blue boards. binding tight. 1st edition. missing fep. owners name to endpaper..

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1945. A Story of the War in the Pacific. Pictures by Stead. Pp. 192, coloured frontispiece, plus 12 plates printed in dull green & black, black & white title page vignette map; cr. 8vo; blue cloth, lettered in black, boards a trifle flecked, edges lightly rubbed, top fore-corners faintly bruised, small faded patches at head and foot of spin; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a few small pieces torn from backstrip extremities and top edge of front panel; bottom fore-corner of a couple of pages slightly creased, a few light spots of foxing; Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1945. First edition..

JOHNS, Captain W. E.
Worrals of the Islands: A Story of the War in the Pacific
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1948, hardback with dust wrapper GD/gd, boards dark blue/gold, colour frontispiece and illustrated title page in addition to twelve green two-tone drawings, 192 pp. Boards edge worn, grubby, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, edges of text block foxed, spots and stains to end papers. Appreciable shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), previous repairs made to inside bottom edge and front inner hinge with Sellotape, 3cm by 3cm chip to head of spine, 2.5cm closed tear to front panel, 1cm closed tear to back, now protected by acid-free archive film, price not clipped. CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, CAPTAIN W. E. JOHNS, SQUADRON OFFICER JOAN WORRALS, WAR STORY 46206 CHILD'S COLL £21.00

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1945. Cover: blue cloth, black titles, faint few only white spots. Fading to spine. Very slight convex rise down spine. Light rubbing to some of the extrmeties. Light foxing to edges. Very slight inward bowing to front board. Clean content, colour and green & black illustrations. Binding very good albeit slightly askew. 192p Dj: very faint dusting of smudges to rear jacket. Head of spine with thin rubbing, tiny tears and chips. Foot of spine with teeny chips. 1cm tear to foot of rear flap spine. Tiny tear to head & foot of front flap spine. Price-cut to front flap foot.. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by Stead.