Gimlet Goes Again King Commandos by Johns (7 results)
Published by University of London Press, Ltd., Malham House, Bickley, Kent, U.K., 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Teal green cloth, lettered in black. Binding lean, modest tanning/foxing to text block edges and endpapers. 185 pp. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1944. Color illus. dust jacket tanned on rear panel, sunned along spine panel, with modest chipping/loss to corners and spin…e extremities, clipped front flap, now in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stead (illustrator). Book.
Published by University of London, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 185 pages (complete). Boards worn, cocked, marked. Previous ownership inscriptions and stamp, tanning, a bit stained, foxing. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st printing. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
More imagesPublished by University of London Press, London, 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Mike's Library LLC, Plymouth, PA, U.S.A.Mike's Library LLC
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; Third Printing. Light cock, light cover fade, light tone, 1951 gift inscription, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket three 1" tears with creasing, smaller tears and edgewear. Solid hardcover. ; 2nd Gimlet book, first published during WW2 in 1944. Gimlet… and his British commandos work with the French underground to free prisoners used as a bombing shield for a factory making aircraft engines. W E Johns' more famous series character, Biggles, shows up to fly them out of occupied France.; The Gimlet Books; Vol. 2; 185 pages. Illustrated by Leslie Stead illustrations (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Youth Book Club Ltd., London, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United KingdomEdinburgh Books
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. No stated date but understood to be 1950. First edition thus. 185pp., colour frontispiece and 9 black and white illustrations. First published in 1944, this is the second of W.E. Johns's "Gimlet" books. Captain "Gimlet" King parachutes into Fra…nce, and into a Naxi plot. This is a hard-to-find 'Youth Book Club' edition, and is bound in the original blue boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with a tough of fading rto the spine ends and top edge of the boards. The contents are tight and clean with foxing to the top and fore edges of the text block, and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the top and/or fore margin. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and foxing and the spine is browned. The corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and nicked and the spine ends and top front corner have been reinforced on the reverse with strips of document repair tape.
Published by University of London Press, London, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaArapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Reprint. 12mo. original blue boards (a little rubbed & sunned, some spotting; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 186 (last blank), with colour frontispiece and text illustrations. A very good copy. No. 2 in the Gimlet series, this one set in wartime France. Leslie Stead (illustrator).
Published by University of London Press London 1949, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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Add to basketreprint hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy small octavo 185pp., col. frontis., illusts., No dust jacket o/w a nice copy.
Published by University of London Press Ltd, London, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: CURIO, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, United KingdomCURIO
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green boards with black lettering and illustrations, no dustjacket, 185pp. colour frontispiee, b/w illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions, few light marks to boards. (18/3).
