London: Epworth Press, 1934. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Compendium of 1930s adventure stories, then aimed at boys. Attractive colour frontispiece. The book is foxed to the text block edges but not intruding to pages much. The binding is tight and there are no marks or.....
London: Ward, Lock, 1940s. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Attractive pictorial boards covered by a fine jacket in the same design. The book is fine with sixteen colour plates all clean, fresh and vibrant. There is a little foxing to the front end papers. The jacket is.....
London: Warne, 1951. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Another combination of rocket and time travel to lost worlds. No jacket. Book in fine condition with no marks or inscriptions apart from a couple of marks to the endpapers. There is a small dint to the rear.....
London: Nelson, undated. Edition: 1st UK< 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Scarce in the very good jacket, this is a collection of boarding schoolboy adventures. The pages are heavily tanned to the edges but there are no markings or inscriptions. Jacket is very good with only minor losses to extremities.....
The Foley House Press, 1948. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Very early story from renowned Scottish novelist. There are ex libris stamps to front endpapers and the jacket has usual shelf wear but is still nicely intact.
Burke, 1963. Edition: 1st UK, 1st Impression. Book Condition: Very good. Combination of intrepid reporting and Highland mystery. Book very good with spotting to front edge. Unclipped jacket fine; a little grubby to rear panel.
Burke, 1950. Edition: 1st UK, 1st Impression. Book Condition: Very good. One of the prolific author's better-known children's tales which found its way, like much of MacVicar's work, to BBC Children's hour. This is the correct first edition with the first state dust jacket.
Burke, 1954. Edition: 1st UK, 4th impression. Book Condition: Very good. Popular, BBC-serialised sci-fi novel from renowned Scottish novelist. There is an inscription to the front endpaper and the jacket has some losses, is a little grubby, but remains largely intact.
Burke, 1961. Edition: 1st UK, 4th impression. Book Condition: Very good. Popular, BBC-serialised sci-fi novel from renowned Scottish novelist. There are no marks or inscriptions, but some foxing to preliminaries. The jacket is a little grubby, but remains largely intact.
Jonathan Cape, 1947. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. The twelfth and final adventure for the Swallows and Amazons crew. The very clean 1st printing book is fine with no other marks or inscriptions. The text block edges are clean with only an isolated piece of spotting to.....
Jonathan Cape, 1941. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. The tenth of the adventures of the Swallows and Amazons crew. The 1st printing book is fine with no marks or inscriptions. Green boards clean and gilt lettering bright. Spine top and bottom are a little bumped. The.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Unjacketed first edition of the third in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series. This book is in overall very good condition with no marks or inscriptions to the pages or the attractive end papers. The text block edges.....
New York: Macmillan Co., 1943. Edition: 1st US, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. The eleventh of the adventures of the Swallows and Amazons crew. The 1st US printing book is fine with no marks or inscriptions at all. Green boards are clean and gilt lettering bright. Spine top and.....
Jonathan Cape, 1943. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. The eleventh of the adventures of the Swallows and Amazons crew. The 1st printing book is fine with no marks or inscriptions apart from a small and neat owner's inscription to the front end paper. Green boards are.....
Jonathan Cape, 1939. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. The eight of the adventures of the Swallows and Amazons crew. The 1st printing book is fine with a previous owner's inscription to the front end paper, which is itself a little loose. No other marks or inscriptions.....
Jonathan Cape, 1937. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, no jacket. Book Condition: Very good. The seventh of the improbable adventures of the Swallows and Amazons crew. This time they go Dutch. Great stuff in a very nice collectable example or reading copy without the dust jacket. There is a little.....
Various, Various. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impressions. Book Condition: Fine. A very attractive set of six books about the life and works of Arthur Ransome. All are in fine condition and would an excellent basis for or addition to a Ransome collection:1. Arthur Ransome & Capt. Flint's Trunk (Hardyment, 1984).....
London: Warne, 1952. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Fine book with attractive jacket and colour frontispiece, in the 'Lost World' adventure genre perennially popular. No foxing and the book is very clean in all aspects, apart from some jacket offset to the end papers. Binding is.....
Methuen, 1974. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. A straightforward fishing trip in Wales may turn into something more sinister. Classic 1970s book from renowned author, illustrator and naturalist. The book is generally tight and clean with red boards fresh. Small initialled inscription. Top edge a little.....
London: Adprint, 1944-54. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Good UK first editions of these westerns. The books are in very good condition with an owner's inscription to one and some colouring-in to another.
London: Blackie, undated. Edition: no remarks. Book Condition: Very good. This children's author was best known for his treatment of 'lost world' themes and published a very successful series of such fantasy exploration and adventure novels Book has clean yellow covers with attractive lettering, board fading slightly to front top. No.....
London: Blackie, 1938-1950. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. This children's author was best known for his treatment of 'lost world' themes and published a very successful series of such fantasy exploration and adventure novels, probably the best known being The Khan's Carpet included here.The Golden Mirage (1938)The.....
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981. Edition: 1st AUS. Book Condition: Fine. A revised text of the original 1955 edition, this is a uniquely irreverent look at this book and is scarce. The book is fine in all respects except for slightly loose binding (glue showing a little) at the title.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Very good example of this 1951 Biggles story. The text block edges are a little dusty but no foxing. There is a gift inscription to the front end paper but otherwise no markings, with the book.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Attractive first printing of this Biggles story, in illustrated dust jacket. The book is very good with just a little spotting to text block edges but very clean and tight inside. There are no marks or.....