Catherall Arthur M (6 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG original grey cloth, in VG slightly frayed DW. Jacket art by M.A. Charlton.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a dedication. The boards are a little faded at the edges with some corner bumping and a small patch of discolouration to the top right hand corner of the rear panel. Page edges browned with some spotting. Small note in ink to rear free endpaper about returning the book. Spotting to endpapers and through to page 23 - quite large brown spots to a few of these pages. Occasional spotting through the book. The jacket has a two inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine which also has some surface tearing and has been repaired with tape. Tape reinforcing along the fore-edges of front and rear panels. The jacket is darkened with spotting and staining to the rear panel and the flaps. First printing. Charlton, M.A. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Our Boys' Gift Book. With stories by John Bostock, Arthur Catherall, G.M. Rogers, S. Beresford Lucas, & John G. Rowe. No date (circa 1950). Classic 1950s-vintage illustrations. Illustrated in b&w. Complete with colour frontispiece & 3 additional colour plates, as issued. Front cover with colour illustration of a boy scout on a sailing boat. Large format volume. Printed in England. Bound in publisher's original colour pictorial boards backed by maroon cloth unlettered spine, patterned rear board. No dustjacket. Handling wear, mild marginal spotting, lightly cracked in middle, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. Unpaginated (100pp + 4 colour plates). SB-6.…

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Good Plus. N.d. [First Edition, 1956]. Annual for boys containing 'Great new strips, stories, articles', including: 'Dan Dare pilot of the future in Operation Silence'/'The 3J's in Crash went the window!' by Peter Ling/'Jack O'Lantern with Rollo in the Golden Tobyman' by George Beardmore/'Old Calamity: An exciting tale of the Canadian Rockies and a grizzly bear' by W.H. Morris/'Looking for Trouble: The story of the gallant Ocean Rescue Tugs' by Martin Chisholm/'Jet Jackson - Pilot' by Arthur Catherall/'Luck of thje Legion: The Wailing Well' by Geoffrey Bond/'Rustlers of the Firth: A Captain Bell story' by Michael Gibson/'Flight Test' (article on the Handley Page Victor bomber) by Laurence Bagley/'The Falcon Light' (story) by R. Garland/'Jeff Arnold in A One-Man Horse' by Charles Chilton/'Britain's New Railways' by Walkden Fisher. Not dated (First Edn., 1956); quarter green cloth; red boards; titling/eagle illus. printed in white/black/yellow full to front board; eagle illus., etc. printed in black to rear board; illus. endpapers; 173pp.; illus. col. paintings/strips and bw. drawings/diagrams/strips. Spine complete/intact/crisp/robust and clean/very bright; boards robust/crisp and very clean/bright; text very fresh, pages very clean/crisp/bright; dj. has small chips/closed tears/slight creasing to top/bottom edges, but is very clean/bright. No inscriptions. VG+ in G+ price-clipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by R. AYTON/L. BOWYER/P. KAY/REDMILL/D. COBB/THELWELL/B. WINDO/R. WILLIAMS/A. COLLINS/R. BASS/G. LANE/W. FISHER/H. PETTIT/M. AITCHISON/R. JENNINGS/N. WILLIAMS/L. BAGLEY/IONICUS/W. NICKLESS/WINSLADE/H. BISHOP/J. CHAMBERLAIN/J. WORSLEY/M. CHARLTON (illustrator). Hardback.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Signed by Catherall in blue ink to ffep. Else, clean and tight. In the vibrant original dust jacket: a little grubby, spine ends creased and worn. Very good/ very good A lovely copy of the prolific Bolton author's novel of vying bands from either side of the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, unusual signed.…