Language: English
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege and Oxford University Press, London, 1952
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition eighth printing Octavo hardback, green cloth. 260 pp. Very Good condition in Good? unclipped dust jacket (lacks a faily large chunk of material from the top edge of the rear panel, jacket now in protective transparent sleeve). No inscriptions.
Paperback. Condition: Good+. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). First Thus. 157pp. Minor external wear. Sml. sgn. inside frt. cover. Old price & date stamp to 1st title page. O/w clean throughout. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Book.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1938
Seller: GN Books and Prints, Inverness, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback, cloth. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). First Edition. The Black Planes by Wilfrid Robertson, illustrated by Jack Nicolle Hardback, 1938, first edition, published by Oxford University Press, London, 222 pages. Measures around 7 1/2" by 5". No dust jacket. Orange cloth binding, black detail to front board, black lettering to spine. A little discolouration to spine. Scuffing and a little marking, some signs of shelf-wear, very slightly bumped corners. Binding quite firm, very slight slackness to spine but otherwise good. Page edges a little browned, foxed and scuffed. Slight tear to front inner hinge. Sunday school prize-giving bookplate to FFEP. Slight foxing to endpapers, the odd mark to page surfaces but generally very clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. 222 pp. n.
Language: English
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press, 1952
Seller: Mammy Bears Books, Cedar Creek, QLD, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. NICOLLE, JACK (illustrator). 190x125x25mm+317g . . Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. . 1952. . . . Pp247. Green hard cloth boards; a little wear; . Illustrated by JACK NICOLLE. Binding tight: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia: _AU$11.20.
Published by Armada, 1966
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Archer, Peter & Nicolle, Jack (illustrator). Circa 1966. Very good condition. A paperback copy of this classic boys book! C151 to base of spine. Cover illustration by Archer. B/w text illustrations by Nicolle. Light vertical creases to spine and spine edges. Light page browning throughout else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Published by Oxford University Press 1941, 1941
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG-), pyramid/biplane/palms cover; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1939
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Brown Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Nicolle, Jack (illustrator). First Edition. 1939. 224pp. Colour frontispiece and 4 B&W illustrations by Jack Nicolle. Book has printed titles to spine and decorated border to upper board. Light wear to corners with mild fading to spine. Foxing to edges. Light foxing to endpapers; occasionally throughout. Page edges browning. Otherwise in VG condition with no inscriptions.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1952
Seller: LOTSABOOKS, HAMILTON, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). Reprint. Firm and clean internally but heavy foxing on the outer edges of the pages. Inscription on the first blank page.
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press 1938, London, 1938
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nicolle, Jack (illustrator). 222 pp. Decorative brown cloth in colour illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Jacket marked with slight wear to extremities. Cloth clean, prize bookplate dated 1938 to ffep., foxed throughout. Five full page colour illustrations by Jack Nicolle. Adventure novel set in Africa of a pilot and a revolt against the 'white races' by the mistreated natives. 8vo.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1938
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Hardback. Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle (illustrator). First. This lovely hardback 1938 first edition of Biggles Flies South by Captain W E Johns is bound in blue cloth with black ink lettering and illustrations including a charming image of a plane flying over pyramids on the cover Inside one finds 255 pages of text supplemented with full page black ink illustrations and a fullcolour frontispiece Biggles flung the joystick over as a great sombre mass loomed suddenly in front This book in which Biggles Algy and Ginger get sidetracked en route to a squadron reunion in South Africa is in fair condition The covers are bumped and worn there is a lean to the spine there is an inscription on the free endpapers and there is significant foxing throughout the book However this damage is more than fair for a book that is almost 100 years old and particularly one of this rarity This book is looking for a new home and would make for a lovely gift for any Biggles enthusiastsnbsp. book.
Language: English
Published by OUP, 1938
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ.First impression. Blue boards with illustration of plane ad palm trees.Minimal wear to hard back book. 255 pages. Pages are clean and tight. Name neatly crossed out inside front board.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1946
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Leigh, Howard & Nicolle, Jack (illustrator). 1946. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Light brown cloth with black title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 255 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Foxing to textblock. Flying Jacket wrapper is edge worn and grubby. Flaps are almost detached and there is a section missing to lower edge of rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1939
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Stiff Board Cover. Condition: Good. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). First Edition. 224 pages. Colour frontis plus 4 black/white plates. Spine faded. Owner's name at front. A firm, straight copy. Scan available.
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1938
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). First Edition. Four black and white full-page illustrations, and colour frontispiece showing the front of a plane to illustrate page 167. All five plates present as called for. ***Very good in orange cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine and decorative borders to front board. Contemporaneous colour decorative Sunday School book-plate to front free endpaper. Extremities of boards slightly rubbed. Pages clean. Small offsetting to rear free endpaper. Spine tight. ***In a good colour illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper that has been re-priced by hand to 3/6. Edges of dustwrapper creased, marked and rubbed. Small loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. One-inch tear and associated creasing to bottom corner of front panel of dustwrapper. Mottled discolouration along outer edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Tail of spine of dustwrapper creased and rubbed with tiny chip and tear. Very small chips, rubbing and creasing to head of spine of dustwrapper. Rear panel of dustwrapper discoloured, slightly marked and rubbed (being white background). 222 pages. 192mm x 128mm. ***Wilfrid Robertson born Bakewell, Derbyshire 22 April 1892, died Oxford, Oxfordshire 5 April 1973 - was an English author of adventure tales, many of them for younger readers, perhaps best known for writing the Science Fiction novel, The Scar on the Film (1939), about a lost race, in which a civilization of ancient Phoenicians is discovered in Africa. ***'Gerald Dent, fresh from England, travels up the Zambesi River in the hope of getting a job on a sugar estate. On arrival he finds the post has been filled, and he is at a loose end. As a result of a remarkable accident, he joins a man named Black who is running an Air Service between Nyasaland and Rhodesia; he learns to fly, and is soon a qualified pilot. Just before this, two of Black's planes had disappeared, and on one of his trips Gerald also disappears, so far as his white friends are concerned, and he finds himself in the hands of a native Chief who is working up the spirit of revolt among the tribes with a view of driving the white races out of Africa. The plot might have become really dangerous if Gerald had not by an adroit move, deprived the revolutionaries of their leader at a critical moment.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb) ***The Black Planes is a 1930s children's adventure novel by Wilfrid Robertson, set in Africa about the adventures of a pilot, Gerald Dent and a revolt by the native tribes to drive the white races out of Africa. ***First impression of the true first edition, rare to find in its original 1938 fragile pre-war dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of children's first edition titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Published in Watford, Hertfordshire No. 14 January . 1993., 1993
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Condition: Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Red Fox]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1946
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Jack Nicolle and Howard Leigh (illustrator). !st Australian Edition. Red binding, black titles. 212 pages. B/w illustrations. Internally spotless. Cover corners lightly bumped. A tight, straight clean 1st edition.
Published by Published Watford, Hertfordshire No. 4 July . 1990., 1990
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Condition: Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Det Forsvunne Dagboksblad, The Missing Page]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.
Published by Published Watford, Hertfordshire No. 4 July . 1990., 1990
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Condition: Good. Publisher's original stapled colour illustrated paper covers. 8vo 8ĵ" x 6" 40 pp. Front and back cover illustrated in colour and depicting scarce artwork from the books of W. E. Johns [Det Forsvunne Dagboksblad, The Missing Page]. Monochrome internal illustrations, articles and advertisements. Good resource material. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.
Published by O.U.P., London, 1951
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Jack Nicolle (illustrator). 6th Reprint. 255 pages. Jacket has small mark on front but is bright and complete now protected in a clear mylar sleeve. Top edge slightly dusty otherwise a fine copy.
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press 1948-1952, London, 1948
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Will Narraway; Alfred Sindall; Norman Howard; Jack Nicolle (illustrator). A very smart set of four adventure books following fictional pilot hero "Biggles", in the publisher's uniform dust wrappers and illustrated throughout. A set of four gripping novels following the popular pilot hero James Bigglesworth, more commonly known as "Biggles".Created by World War One pilot, William Earl Johns, better known by his pen name Captain W. E. Johns. These stories were aimed at young readers and feature Biggles on an array of air adventures.Each volume is with the publisher's original dust wrapper, uniform in design. 'Flies North' and 'Flies South' are unclipped.Biggles & Co (1948) - The fifth printing. With six full page illustrations by Alfred Sindall. Biggles is approached by the head of a firm of bullion brokers to organise an air-line of his own.Biggles in the South Seas (1951) - The sixth printing. With six full page illustrations by Norman Howard. Old friend Sandy Macaster surprises Biggles before ending up with the rest of the gang on a remote island in the South Seas, searching for pearls.Biggles Flies South (1952) - The eighth printing. With six full page illustrations by Jack Nicolle. A enthralling story of Biggles' search for the Lost Oasis.Biggles Flies North (1951) - The sixth printing. With six full page illustrations by Will Narraway. Biggles and the team set out on a journey to lend rescue to Wilks, isolated in the snowy wastes of Canada.Collated complete. In the original cloth binding. In the original dust wrappers. 'Flies North' and 'Flies South' are unclipped. Externally, smart. Spine of 'Biggles and Co' has been rebacked. With slight rubbing and bumping to extremities to all, heavier to 'Biggles and Co', resulting in a small closed tear to the spine head. Sunning to the spine of 'Biggles and Co' and damp staining to the boards of 'South Seas'. Dust wrappers are generally smart. With chipping to the wraps of 'Flies North' and 'Biggles and Co', heavier to the latter. A large closed tear to the front panel of 'Biggles and Co'. General edge wear and marks to all the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. With offsetting to the endpapers and contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpaper of 'Biggles and Co' and 'South Seas'. Scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves of 'South Seas'. Very Good. book.
Published by London: Oxford University Press, 1938, 1938
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece by Leigh, and a sketch-map and six black and white illustrations by Nicolle. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge brown. School prize inscription in black ink to fly-leaf, dated 1939, and a black ink ownership to half-title. Occasional thumb marks to margins. Light general soiling to cloth, with heavy bumping to top corners, a 3cm tear to head of lower joint, and some toning to spine. Good. On their way to a 266 Squadron Reunion Dinner in South Africa, Biggles, Algy and Ginger are waylaid by an Egyptian asking for their help to find the remains of an ancient Persian army lost in the desert during the reign of King Cambyses II.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1938
Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. W. E. Johns, born in 1893, was well qualified to be the creator of 'Biggles', one of the most enduring fictional heroes to come out of the post WWI years. In 1917, after serving several months in the Gallipoli campaign, Johns joined the Royal Flying Corps (precursor to the Royal Air Force) and had what can only be regarded as a hair-raising career in the last year of the war. Flying the unreliable machines of the day he once crashed three aircraft in three days, later getting lost in fog and almost flying into a cliff. He had the misfortune to shoot off his own propeller with the 'synchronised' machine gun twice. Finally in September 1918 he was shot down and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. Johns remained in the RAF until 1927 and was, at one point, the reluctant commanding officer to T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia). In 1932 he published the first of the 'Biggles' novels, and by 1970 had published 96 titles in the series. Here is a very nice First Edition of one of the earliest works, published in 1938. Note that this is the true first edition and NOT the Pyramid edition, which appeared later in the same year. The original khaki cloth binding is tight and square with a nicely rounded spine. Shelf presentation is very good, with the illustrated spine showing light wear confined to the spine ends and only light soiling. The illustrated front cover likewise shows light wear and soiling, with the buckram showing beneath the decorative cloth at a few spots along the hinge. The blank rear cover shows a few scratches and slightly heavier soiling than the spine and front cover. The contents are clean and tight. The striking color frontispiece is intact and bright. Light spotting is confined to the prelims and final few pages. The text block edges show some age toning, contrasting with the bright text block interior. The clean, white endpapers appear to be new rather than original. There is a single inked initial - an elaborate "W" in blue on the half title.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1938
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown boards and spine lettered and decorated in a darker brown; boards a little toned and rear one with 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm stain; spine tanned and edges a little rubbed. Internally front end papers tanned and names and dates written on free front end paper. Touch of foxing to title page; contents clean there after.