Geo george e rochester (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Library stamp to front free endpaper. Scraps of jacket glued inside boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 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. Howard Leigh & Orton Stanley Bradshaw (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Good Only. First Edition. (vi) 216 pp. Red cloth lettered in black on the spine. Nicked and chipped around the edges of the dustjacket with a fragment missing from the upper edge of the front panel; no interior markings. Dj art by Wardle. Size: 8vo. Wardle; (illustratore). Book. …

Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 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. Howard Leigh (illustratore). …

Condizione: Good. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 12cm), 223pp, 1pp adverts. 4 b&w plates. Original red cloth. There is some rubbing of the spine, and light spotting to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Undated; WorldCat gives a publication date of 1936.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 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. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 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. Howard Leigh (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards colour illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw on spine and front cover, 248 pages. 1 black and white plate of a Sopwith Camel by W E Johns , 3 black and white plates by Howard Leigh, 6 colour plates (2 Stanley Orton Bradshaw, 1 probable Johns). A few black and white text illustrations also by Howard Leigh. 11 stories, 3 by Johns: Two Air V.C.s; Strange Freight and The Ace of Spades ( Biggles). 2 stories by G.E. Rochester, and 2 by Arch Whitehouse. Spine just very slightly worn at head and tail, quite worn to front external hinge. All plates present, pages age toned as typical for this tome. Over 1kg packed extra postage will be required to many destinations. Howard Leigh & Stanley Orton Bradshaw (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used: Good. Good overall condition,has no dust cover. speedy dispatch from the u/k 0.0.

Condizione: Very Good. Possibly first edition, copyright page code states (63) 1936. Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back. Thick 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 312 pp with 4 single-sided monochrome plates on coated art paper throughout. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small closed teras to the spine ends, priced 5/-, spine colours not faded. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.…