Hardback. Laminated pictorial boards. A couple of light scratches to the rear board, light fading to the edges and a few minor rubs. Slightly grubby thumb mark to the edge of the title page. In otherwise very good, clean condition. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Slim and unpaginated picture book. 27.8cm tall. French language. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. French edition of Captain W. E. Johns's Worrals in the Wastelands, published the same year as the 1st UK edition. In good condition. Publisher's original beige brown boards. The binding is firm but the pages are very browned, due to poor paper quality. The pages have been rough cut at the foredges, rather than machine trimmed, resulting in a few short tears to the edges. Some foxing to pages. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. The dust jacket is worn at the edges, with rubs, short tears, small chips. pp. 190. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose prote... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. French edition of Captain W. E. Johns's Worrals Investigates, published the same year as the 1st UK edition. In fair to good condition. Publisher's original pink boards. The binding is firm but the pages are very browned, due to poor paper quality. Some foxing to the pages, particularly noticeable to the endpapers. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. The dust jacket is rubbed at the edges with some small chips, tears, creasing and the white back cover is discoloured / browned. pp. 192. 19cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear ar... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. French edition of Captain W. E. Johns's Gimlet Bores In. In publisher's original grey boards, with brown titles - the boards are very slightly discoloured at the edges. The binding is firm but pages are browned due to poor paper quality; a little foxing to pages. Some page foredges have been rough-cut due to poor textblock trimming at time of manufacture, resulting to some tears and loss to a few page margins (see photos for an example on p. 61/2). Previous owner's name and address neatly written on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is worn, with some tears, chips ... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. French edition of Captain W. E. Johns's Another Job For Biggles. In fair to good condition. The story was first serialised in English in Collins Magazine for Boys and Girls, Feb - Aug 1950 as Biggles in Arabia. It wasn't published in book form in English until 1951; this French translated edition predates the first English book form edition. Publisher's original white boards with red titles. The boards have some foxing and discolouration to the edges. The binding is firm but pages are browned due to poor paper quality; some foxing to pages. Some page foredges have b... View More...
Language: French. Bound in flexible brown leatherette boards, with clear acetate dust jacket and presented in original Gallimard printed card slipcase. Two yellow ribbon page markers. Top edge tinted orange. The book is in excellent, near fine condition. Clean, tight and unmarked. The slipcase is very good but has some mild handling creasing around the spine. pp. cxxxv, 1430. The book measures 17.7cm tall. View More...
