Rochester G E (43 results)

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. First Edition. 16mo. Reading copy only. 64pp. Covers missing, and booklet split into 2 parts. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stanley Orton Bradshaw (illustrator). Hardback. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Grey cloth boards faded, shelfwear. Light tanning to pages, edges of pages darkened. Endpapers foxed. Black and white Inscription. 247 pages. No date given for publication but probably 1930s.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp. Biggles' Treasure Island Part 4.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp. Biggles' Treasure Island Part 1.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp. Biggles' Treasure Island Part 5.

Paper cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Staples rusted. 270mm x 190mm (11" x 7"). 32pp. Biggles' Treasure Island Part 2.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated, circa 1930's. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. NO DJ, SHELF WEAR ON BOARDS, CLOTH DISCOLOURED, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, FOXING ON EPS, MARKS AND FOXING ON SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 600 GRAMS. ILLUSTRATED WITH 4 PLATES.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. G.E. Lang (illustrator). Undated edition, the front cover shows a man with a white beard and a boy in waterproof clothing in rain. Coming loosely bound, illustrated card boards, red cloth spine. Fading, peeling, scuffing with small tears and dust spotting on cover and spine. Pen writing and deleting on front end paper. First story: The Elephant I Can Never Forget. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This is a worn hardcopy, c1936. There is a a name on the front endpapers, written and printed. Illustrated with several plates. The spine is faded and stained.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Howard Leigh & Orton Stanley Bradshaw (illustrator). 1st Edition. Circa 1936 printing. 4 colour and 4 b/w plates some by Howard Leigh. Contains 5 W.E. Johns stories including 3 Biggles, 3 George Rochester stories. Spine bumped and faded. Corners are bumped and worn. Board edges are very rubbed. Rear hinge of binding has cloth split for approx 50% of length. Back board is stained. An oversize book, over 1kg packed, that will require additional postage to many destinations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SONS OF THE LEIGION by GEO. E. ROCHESTER ** HARDBACK ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * PUBLISHER : DANIELS * YEAR : UNDATED * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 182 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: DUST COVER IS CHIPPED TO SPINE AND CORNERS. CREASE AND TEARS TO BACK AND EDGES WORN. THE BLUE BOARD COVER IS FADING AROUND THE EDGES AND SPINE, CORNERS ARE BUMPED AND HEADBAND. TAIL OF SPINE IS FRAYING EXPOSING SOME OF THE BOARD UNDERNEATH. FOXING TO PAGE EDGES AND SMALL AMOUNTS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK. AN INSCRIPTION NEATLY WRITTEN ON THE FFEP DATED 1949. OTHERWISE PAGES ARE CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. With tatty dust jacket. A solid edition. Undated, circa 1940s Photograph available on request.

Hardback. Condition: Good. W E JOHNS (illustrator). First edition. Colour frontis by W E Johns. Also articles by the man himself, but not attributed. Cloth backed picture boards, with slight wear.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard Leigh (illustrator). Originally serialized in The Modern Boy. Red cloth name in pencil to front free endpaper, spine lean . Provided with a copy dustjacket. The Dustjacket and opening plate were Howard Leigh's work , the other plates are uncredited but also appear to be his work. Catalogue 1pp to the rear. Starts with 13 titles in the Ace series at the back by George Rochester. Rochester was a contemporary to W E Johns , in the early 1930s his (Rochester's) aviation stories outsold the legendary Biggles ironically Rochester was also imprisoned in the same POW Camp as W E Johns. The artist, Howard Leigh, did the artwork in many of the early Biggles books and was also brother-in-law to W E Johns John Hamilton 1936 England.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Undated but looks similar to the 1935 edition. Condition: Fair - No dust jacket. Cover boards are faded and have crushing to ends of spine and bruising to corners. Page sides are darkened and have heavy foxing. Front endpaper has been removed, title page remains and no other pages seem to be missing. No notes or highlighting but text blocks have foxing throughout some pages have more than others. Binding is intact but exposed in at least one place meaning it might be a bit fragile there, no loose pages currently. Overall a readable copy with foxing being the notable sign of age.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Wrapper is chipped, rubbed and lightly marked with large open tears and some parts of the wrapper missing. Boards marked, spine slightly cocked, prelims foxed with some light foxing to some pages, otherwise clean throughout. Good. 0. Book.

4 pp. 11-3/4 x 9-1/8 inches. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair+ Good. 1st Edition. Endpapers are a trifle foxed. Jacket is price clipped and has small losses, taped repair to the back panel and tears . Now in a new protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Original Dustjacket. - (illustrator). FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING. Geo. E. Rochester - [1898 to 1966 - Most popular air adventures author through the 1930's and 1950's] - ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET: Retains price of 5/- NET to inner front prelim. The dustjacket has been repaired with cellotape to the front and rear. It was very scuffed at folds and creased in general with closed edge tears and there were quite a few chips that I have replaced with similar coloured paper. The colouring remains beautifully vibrant. Now housed in an archival sleeve. - Orange cloth with lettering to the spine. Fading of the spine and lightly scuffed at the corners. Firm binding and clean. There is a slight book lean. - Very light soiling to endpages. Occasional foxing throughout. - 247 pages are all present and tightly bound. - END - Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days. - Thanks for your interest and I hope you like the book enough to buy it.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard Leigh (illustrator). Grey Shadow Master Spy , title page is just "Grey Shadow " as per author's bibliography. Spine displays wear. Solid copy in red boards Illustrations by Howard Leigh of early Biggles fame. Scarce Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.