Hardback. Swedish translation of 'Biggles Defies the Swastika'. Fair condition - a good reading copy. Pictorial boards with orange cloth spine. Rubs to board edges and a little pencil on the front board. Front endpaper and half-title pages have been snipped at the corners and edge. Pages are significantly browned / tanned due to poor paper quality. A few slightly grubby thumbing / handling marks to pages (not many). 207pp. Some foxing to endpapers. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. 19cm tall. View More...
Danish edition of the second half of Swallowdale, 1957. Swallowdale was published in 2 parts in this Danish edition so please take note, this is the SECOND book ONLY. Pictorial paper covered boards with blue cloth spine, faded. Light rubs to spine and corners. Two small pale stains to the lower board. Previous owner's name and date (1960) written in neat biro at the top edge of the front pastedown. Paper has browned, particularly at the edges. Binding is sound but pages are brittle. pp. 128. 20cm tall. View More...
Hardback, no dust jacket. Detective novel by Norwegian / Swedish novelist Stein Riverton (real name Sven Elvestad). This copy is a 5th thousand / 5th printing. This book came from the collection of crime writer P. D. James and loosely enclosed with the book is a letter on Sphere Books headed paper addressed to Mrs P. D. White (P. D. James), from the European Sales Manager at Sphere, 1985. The letter mentions the book and a trip to Scandinavia. There is an older previous owner's signature in pencil at the top edge of the half-title page. Half red cloth binding, with patterned paper sides. The b... View More...
